Bad news for Tom Daschle. The Senate Plurality Leader is looking more and more likely to become the Senate Minority Leader next fall.

As one bit of evidence, consider this story from the Minneapolis Star Tribune that shows Paul Wellstone in a neck and neck race with his Republican opponent. When an incumbent can only poll forty five percent, it looks pretty grim. Undecideds have more of a tendency to ultimately go to the challenger.

And loss of the Senate to the Republicans would be particularly sweet, considering what it would do to His Pomposity, Jim Jeffords.