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...Missouri governor Mel Carnahan is assumed dead after a plane carrying him and a top adviser and piloted by Carnahan's son Randy crashed Monday night in the rainy Missouri woods about 30 miles south of St. Louis. Carnahan was on the way to a campaign stop in New Madrid, Mo., in the midst of a hotly contested race to unseat conservative Republican senator John Ashcroft in a race considered crucial to the future balance of the Senate. (Ashcroft's campaign immediately pulled all its advertising in deference to the tragedy...
...Missouri's lieutenant governor, Roger B. Wilson, assumed Carnahan's duties at the statehouse when the news hit. If in a spasm of grief Missouri voters elect Carnahan (the deadline for changing the ballot passed on Friday), Wilson, a Democrat, will have the power to appoint a two-year replacement. Wilson, by the way, is not in the contest to succeed Carnahan, having already decided to drop out of politics to become an investment banker...
...Meanwhile, Gore and Bush will have to wage what could be the decisive battle of their own race without treading on the beloved Carnahan's ghost. There will be extreme pressure for Bush to keep his smirking ebullience (which made a stealth appearance in the forgotten second half of Round Two) in check, and for Gore to find a way to be both Alpha and dignified, a trick he hasn't yet mastered...
Like George W. Bush, Ashcroft is running a race based largely on character. The son of an Assemblies of God minister, Ashcroft, who doesn't drink, has been known for his religiosity. His ads tout his "Missouri Values"--a line that Carnahan and most observers consider an implicit dig lampooning the 66-year-old Governor as an out-of-touch liberal who is close to Bill Clinton. "It really is a perversion," Carnahan told TIME. For his part, Ashcroft, 58, says the line isn't a jab at Carnahan; but when asked by TIME, he won't say whether Carnahan...
...Missouri's Ronnie White, an African American, to the federal bench last year, some Democrats suggested the opposition was racially motivated. Ashcroft, whose wife teaches at historically black Howard University, took justifiable umbrage. Shortly after the controversy erupted, a G.O.P. source leaked a 40-year-old photo of Carnahan in blackface at a minstrel show at a Kiwanis Club. (The Governor apologized.) This kind of sniping probably won't decide the race. If Carnahan can make Ashcroft seem too conservative, he'll win. Likewise, if Ashcroft can seem like a man of moderate policies and upright character, he'll take...