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...Democratic candidates took seats from Republicans in Rhode Island, Ohio and Pennsylvania by midway through the evening. Missouri State Auditor Claire McCaskill defeated incumbent Sen. Jim Talent early Wednesday morning. But it would be several hours, if not several days, before the outcome of the contests was known in Montana and Virginia...
Pushed over the top by a surge of support from the cities, Democrat Claire McCaskill narrowly beat incumbent Republican Jim Talent to become the next Senator from Missouri. Her victory appeared all the more dramatic because McCaskill had trailed Talent from the time the first results were announced, at 9 p.m., until shortly after midnight. But as the final votes poured in from the state's two major cities, St. Louis and Kansas City, McCaskill pulled ahead, beating Talent by just 42,000 of the 2 million votes cast...
...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, where he needed to do much better to offset McCaskill's advantage in St. Louis, where Democrats typically win 80% of the vote...
...exit polls suggest that the Bush Administration and its handling of the Iraq war also weighed heavily on voters' minds. "What brought Talent down wasn't Talent," said pollster and Saint Louis University political science professor Ken Warren. "There's no question about it, this was a referendum on the Bush Administration...
...first victory in years for a battered Democratic Party in Missouri. Ever since Talent narrowly beat Jean Carnahan to join the Senate in 2002, the party has lost control of the governor's office and the state legislature in a series of close elections...