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...will fall just short of taking back the Senate. Democrats have picked up Senate seats in Ohio, Rhode Island and Pennsylvania tonight and held onto Senate seats in Maryland and New Jersey-which means the fight for the Senate is coming down to just a handful of races: Montana, Missouri and Virginia. They are still hopeful that Democratic candidate James Webb will knock off Republican Senator George Allen in Virginia, in a race too close to call. But with challenger Claire McCaskill trailing incumbent Republican Senator Jim Talent in Missouri, it is looking unlikely that the Democrats can pick...
...this for a November surprise? On Election Day, the millions of dollars poured into campaigns in states such as Ohio and Missouri may pale in value compared to the power of a simple buck. That's about the amount by which the minimum wage would increase under ballot initiatives in Arizona, Colorado, Missouri, Montana, Nevada and Ohio. And as support for the initiatives hovers at around 70%, according to polls in those states, analysts expect widespread backing for the measures to help drive voter turnout on behalf of progressive candidates...
...Democratic leads in key Senate races in Rhode Island and Montana have disappeared, leaving party strategists less optimistic about their chances of winning the Senate. Aside from expected seat pickups in Ohio and Pennsylvania, "everything else is questionable," said one party strategist working on Senate races, with races in Missouri, Montana, Rhode Island, Tennessee and Virginia still fiercely contested. Democrats would need to win four of those five races, and avoid losing Democratic seats in New Jersey and Maryland, to win the Senate. And while Democrats remain confident of winning control of the House, the chances of a huge victory...
...Missouri: Jim Talent (R) v. Claire McCaskill...
...After a bruising final spate of campaigning that included half a dozen debates, a major push by both parties to court women and rural voters, and ads by Michael J. Fox for McCaskill and a host of celebrities for Talent, the Missouri Senate race remains deadlocked. It has now become a test of the two parties Get Out The Vote operations, with the G.O.P. pouring volunteers into neighborhoods and drawing on the party's vaunted voter list, while the Dems scramble to mobilize urban voters in St. Louis and Kansas City. Democrats have to hope that two ballot initiatives...