Dead Democratic candidate in SD beats Republican

You think the anti-Republican sentiment is not felt in every pocket of the country?  Try this on for size:

Marie Steichen died two months ago but she won a battle to become acounty commissioner for a small South Dakota town in the US elections,an official said.

Jerauld county auditor Cindy Peterson said that the election listclosed on August 1, and while Steichen died from cancer in Septemberher name was kept on the list for Tuesday's election.

Steichen beat a Republican rival by 100 votes to 64 and Peterson saidshe believed that voters knew the woman was dead but wanted to maketheir political point.

This is analogous to what happened in November of 2000 when John Ashcroft lost to Mel Carnahan for Missouri's Senate seat.  Carnahan died about two weeks before the vote.  Ashcroft went on to become Bush's Attorney General.