Daschle Hypocrisy Watch

Today the Daschle campaign sent out an email attacking Thune for being close too Bush and for attending fundraisers at the Republican convention. Note that the Daschle campaign is currently running an ad prominently featuring Daschle HUGGING Bush! At the same time, Daschle has raised more money than any incumbent in the nation this year--and SD is a lot smaller than California and New York--and has raised 91% of it out-of-state, i.e. Hollywood, secret trial lawyer fundraisers (while skipping SD debates), and in the Hamptons, what The New York Timescalls "The Democrats' ATM." Thune has raised 3x more money in South Dakota than Daschle. The Daschle camp apparently thinks their hypocrisy doesn't matter and perhaps they're right--the Argus Leader reported on Thune's fundraising this money, but has yet to analyze where Daschle's money comes from. I should also say that while newspapers in England have reported on the flap over Daschle's hug-with-Bush ad, the Argus Leader is silent.