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...Democratic candidates took seats from Republicans in Rhode Island, Ohio and Pennsylvania by midway through the evening. Missouri State Auditor Claire McCaskill defeated incumbent Sen. Jim Talent early Wednesday morning. But it would be several hours, if not several days, before the outcome of the contests was known in Montana and Virginia...
...fight for the matron vote can get rough. Senator Jim Talent, the Missouri incumbent who faces a hard contest against state auditor Claire McCaskill, has spent heavily on ads accusing her of failing to investigate abusive nursing homes. And last week in Virginia, Republicans spent more than $1 million on TV ads attacking challenger James Webb for, among other things, a 1979 article opposing women in combat and his novels, whose raunchy sex scenes incumbent George Allen called "demeaning to women." This close to Election Day, there are still plenty of votes to scrap for: a recent Missouri poll found...
...just such a paper trail that enabled Marilyn Jo Drake, the auditor in Iowa's Pottawattamie County, to suss out an anomaly in a county-recorder race she was monitoring in June. She noticed that a 20-year incumbent was being beaten 10 to 1 by an unknown newcomer. Sensing a glitch, Drake cross-checked the electronic results against the totals on the paper vote and discovered the veteran was actually well ahead. The problem, it turned out, was the way the candidates' names had been ordered and coded into the access cards that activated the machines, which were made...
...total of 217,000 more women than men voted in Missouri in 2004. Women there, as around the country, are typically less party-loyal than men, decide later how they will vote and are more affected by late-campaign negative advertising. Most important, his Democratic opponent, the popular State Auditor Claire McCaskill, is pursing them aggressively. "The issues we're talking about in this campaign resonate particularly with women," like health care and day care costs, she said a few hours before the campaign's final debate last Wednesday in Kansas City. Polls show the race in a dead heat...
...Talent's most effective effort so far has been with an ad accusing McCaskill of failing to crack down on abusive nursing homes as she promised to in her campaign for state auditor. "This whole thing they've done about nursing homes particularly targets women because they feel guilt over putting parents in health care," McCaskill said last week. "Those ads are particularly damaging." She has worked up a counterstriking ad that features her mother, a former politician herself, talking about her father's death in a nursing home, but at the end of last week McCaskill was still deciding...