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Tom Daschle Mulls White House Run
Former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle is once again weighing a possible run for the White House. The South Dakota Democrat considered running for president in 2004, but decided instead to seek a fourth term in the Senate – only to lose to Republican John Thune. According to The National Journal, Daschle said he was "taking a look at” entering the race for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2008. The primary factors influencing his decision "would be my family and our mutual decision to consider the rigors of a campaign and re-entry into public life,” Daschle told the Sioux Falls Argus Leader.
Story Continues Below After Daschle’s loss to Thune in 2004, he said he probably would never run for office again. But he told the Argus Leader about a White House bid in 2008: "I have received a lot of encouragement,” although he added that he has "no plans at this time to run for national office.” During his later years in the Senate, when he was minority leader, Daschle was called an "obstructionist” by Republicans for stalling judicial nominations and efforts to pass permanent tax cuts and welfare reform. Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics, doesn’t see Daschle as a leading contender for the Democratic nod in 2008. "I wouldn’t call him the favorite, or even second or third,” Sabato told the Argus Leader.
But he added: "It’s not an overpowering field, and Hillary Clinton is more vulnerable than people think because of the electability question.”
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