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Some governors who have been elected to the Senate have found it a disappointing experience. One day you're a chief executive; the next you're a powerless freshman. But Mel Carnahan was hopeful. A few weeks before his death last week in a private-plane crash, Carnahan told TIME that he enjoyed serving in Missouri's statehouse and that he "revered" his late father, who served in Congress from 1945 to 1960. "I would like to go there and do my own version of what he did," Carnahan said...
...since she also lost a son, Roger, in the crash (an aide to the Governor, Chris Sifford, also died), friends say it will be hard for her to muster the strength. William Clay Jr., a leading state Democrat, advises his party to "tailor a message in memory of Mel: 'Come out; he would have wanted you to vote.'" For Missourians and Americans, the Carnahan death was tragedy. For Democrats, though, it was tragedy times...
...DIED. MEL CARNAHAN, 66, Missouri Governor and Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate; in a plane crash; near St. Louis, Mo. Elected Governor in 1992, he famously stood by tough decisions despite political aftershocks--such as honoring Pope John Paul II's request that he stay the execution of a murderer. Carnahan's son Randy, 44, who piloted the plane, and a top aide, Chris Sifford, 37, were also killed in the accident...
...Likeability? Conservatism? - Gore chugs back on the issues but seems, for a good-times incumbent, to have a curious problem closing the deal. And though the polls are the prevailing wind, the campaign will be won in swing-state bunkers. You want a game of inches? The death of Mel Carnahan in Missouri may have won it for Bush already...
...Democrats will be calling on the widow. Eager to impress on Missouri voters that a vote for a dead man - Missouri governor Mel Carnahan, who was killed last week in a plane crash - is not a wasted one, interim governor Roger Wilson will ask Carnahan's widow, Jean Carnahan, to stand as her late husband's replacement for a two-year Senate term. If he wins...