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...make up only 13% of the state's voting-age population. In Missouri, black turnout rose from 5% of the total turnout in the last election to 12%--not enough to keep the state out of Bush's column but assuring the election of the late Democratic Senate candidate Mel Carnahan (his widow will serve his term). Blacks in Tennessee, says political scientist David Bositis, "can't be blamed" for the Vice President's loss of his home state. Their share of the turnout leaped from 13% to 18%. In every one of these states and nationwide Gore received more...
...WIDOW'S MIGHT Mel Carnahan, Democrat, Missouri...
...most emotional victory in the battle for the Senate came when Missouri Governor Mel Carnahan, who was killed in a plane crash on Oct. 16, beat out Republican incumbent John Ashcroft. It was too late to remove his name from the ballot, and Carnahan's Democratic successor as Governor said he would appoint Carnahan's wife Jean, 66, to the Senate seat if her late husband won. "My husband's journey was cut short," she said last week. "And for reasons we don't understand, the mantle has now fallen upon us." Some Republicans grumbled about her right to assume...
...spent weeks anguishing over the possibility that Vice President Al Gore '69 would win the electoral vote, while Texas Gov. George W. Bush took the popular tally -- and now the reverse seems to have taken place. In Missouri, Sen. John Ashcroft was leading in the polls before his opponent, Mel Carnahan, died in a plane crash -- at which point the deceased candidate promptly ran away with the election. Bill M. Daley, son of the most famous machine mayor in American history, Chicago's Dick "vote early and often" Daley, finds himself inveighing against "voter irregularities" and talking about "disenfranchisement...
...perhaps the most remarkable victory of the evening, Missouri's recently deceased Democratic Governor Mel Carnahan defeated Republican incumbent John Ashcroft in a very close race. The new Democratic governor of the state is likely to appoint Carnahan's wife Jean to serve in his place...