From morning 'til night, national political reporters are gabbing about Missouri's U.S. Senate race.
During a roundtable discussion on CNN's Paula Zahn Now, the editor-in-chief of "The Washington Monthy," pointed to Missouri as the race to watch Nov. 7th.
"The state to watch, the race to watch is Missouri, my home state. I think Claire McCaskill will -- has a lot of momentum behind her. The -- the sitting senator, Talent, has the organization. Again, that's going to be state where it's going to be organization vs. motivation," said Paul Glastris of The Washington Monthly on CNN.
National Public Radio political editor Ken Rudin spoke on NPR's Morning Edition about how Sen. Jim Talent might have never been in this close of a race if not for the war, and compounding national mood.
"Let me make the opposite argument. We wouldn’t be talking about Mike DeWine in Ohio or Jim Talent in Missouri if there were not an anti-Republican mood based really on President Bush’s low numbers, the low approval rating of Congress, and the war in Iraq," said Rudin.
"Because Mike DeWine has really done nothing wrong. Jim Talent has really done nothing wrong that would warrant them being defeated in 2006, and it’s really the war and the anti-Republican mood."
Meanwhile, The Hotline's Chuck Todd ranks Missouri's Senate contest as the 5th most competitive in the country.
"While most of the major Senate battles feature candidates who are less and less liked by the voters every day, this is one race where both nominees (Talent and McCaskill) are still well-liked. That probably explains why the negative ads from both parties have been what we like to call 'soft negatives,'" Todd wrote on MSNBC.com.
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