Democrats to abandon "liberal" agenda, hard shift to right:

Reid, who as Democratic whip was Daschle's top lieutenant as well as his loyal
friend for the past six years, had promises of support from a majority of next
year's 44 Senate Democrats two hours after Daschle publicly conceded his seat
to Republican John Thune. That enabled Reid to easily fend off a challenge from
Connecticut Senator Chris Dodd, who was also interested in the job.
Reid, more conservative than Daschle and many other Democrats, is antiabortion
and has voted against an assault-weapons ban

Ouch!!!