Word: ruralism
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...Ford beat Corker soundly in urban precincts (63 to 37 points in Memphis, 60-39 in Nashville) but Corker swept virtually every rural county. The addition of a ban on gay marriage to the ballot, which passed overwhelmingly by 80%, in the end helped Corker, despite Ford's continued campaigning to the center, at one stop promising to be a "Jesus-loving, gun-supporting" Senator...
...Buoyed by rural Christian evangelicals, Corker outlasted five-term Congressman Harold Ford Jr. by 51% to 48% of the vote, ending for now Ford's bid to become the first African American from the South since Reconstruction to join the Senate...
...McCaskill won partly thanks to her own strategy for containing her losses in more conservative rural areas, and partly thanks to widespread voter discontent with the war in Iraq and the policies of President Bush. McCaskill campaigned hard outside of the Democrats urban strongholds: She launched her campaign at her family's old feed mill in the town of Houston, population 1,992, and she campaigned intensively in such conservative strongholds as Springfield and St. Charles County. And the gamble appears to have paid off, holding down Talent's margin of victory to a slim 53% in conservative Greene County...
...When the political pros saw the numbers coming in from the rural counties, they pretty much knew McCaskill was going to win," said Jake Zimmerman, a longtime Democratic Party activist who won a seat in the Missouri Senate Tuesday...
...After what started as a 10% to 12% lead for Tester, it came down to a very close race, and Burns actually won most of the 56 Montana counties, including edging Tester in populous Yellowstone County, site of Billings, the state's largest city. Burns triumphed in the smaller, rural counties, as he has always done, and any new Tester votes in those places were ultimately irrelevant, according to the final tally...