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...started pulling away in the polls, and Democrats can only hope that absence makes the votes grow fonder. When John F. Kennedy ’40 was shot in 1963, his public approval ratings skyrocketed from the nadir of his presidency. In an eerily similar chain of events, Mel Carnahan was killed in a plane crash within days of Missouri’s 2001 senatorial election, and his wife was able to seize the reins and defeat John Ashcroft. Perhaps history will again repeat itself...
...Minnesota officials disagree about the exact legal steps that follow a candidate's death. Some argue that the law would allow a repeat of the Carnahan scenario. But the Democrats are apparently not inclined to wait for such wrangling to be resolved. The party can name a replacement candidate no more than seven days after Wellstone's death and no fewer than four days before the Nov. 5 general election. And all indications point to a new candidate. With neither of Wellstone's two sons (Mark, 30, and David, 37) interested in filling their father's seat, Democratic officials phoned...
...vacancy immediately, and Republicans would suddenly have an advantage that could help them push through President Bush's struggling Homeland Security bill before the new year. Optimism, though, was hard to find among G.O.P. officials, who fear a possible repeat of what one G.O.P. Senator called the "Jean Carnahan syndrome." Two years ago, Carnahan's husband, Missouri Governor Mel Carnahan, died in a plane crash while campaigning. His name remained on the ballot, and the deceased Carnahan defeated Republican incumbent John Ashcroft. Jean Carnahan was then appointed to fill his seat for two years...
...Wellstone's tragedy may help the Democrats keep Minnesota, but what twists of fate create, they can also spirit away. It was Carnahan's unprecedented posthumous victory, along with Jim Jeffords' unexpected party switch, that gave the Democrats their microscopic hold on the Senate in the first place and allowed Tom Daschle to stall, water down and occasionally even block key parts of George W. Bush's agenda. But that margin will be tough to maintain. The Democrats' first problem is Carnahan. Sensing that she is vulnerable, Republicans made her one of their top targets, and they have poured millions...
...fill her husband's term in 1932 and was elected on her own later that year. Edith Wilson effectively ran the White House after husband Woodrow was waylaid by a stroke. Today, there are still plenty of widows on the political scene, including two from Missouri, Sen. Jean Carnahan and Rep. JoAnn Emerson and two California House members, Mary Bono, wife of the famed Sonny, and Lois Capps...