CNN's John King on SWMO

CNN's John King has filed a report on Missouri's U.S. Senate race, where he references Joplin.
It quotes State Sen. Gary Nodler (but they boot his name, Nordler) and a Reverend who says talk about a depressed conservative turnout election day is baloney.

Check out the transcript of the piece below:

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Can you turn your forms in, if you've filled out a 72-hour form...
JOHN KING, CNN CHIEF NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Southwest Missouri is conservative country, the Bible Belt. The stakes of this year's Senate race lost on no one.
GARY NORDLER, MISSOURI STATE SENATE: This race will be decisive in determining who controls the United States Senate in the next term.
KING: Introduction over, incumbent Republican Jim Talent quickly draws distinctions he thinks will make a difference in these parts.
SEN. JIM TALENT (R), MISSOURI: I believe marriage is a relationship between a man and a woman.
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TALENT: And so I supported the marriage amendment to the United States Constitution, and my opponent didn't. I supported the ban on partial birth abortions. She's opposed to that.
CLAIRE MCCASKILL (D), U.S. SENATE CANDIDATE: Go Cardinals.
KING: State Auditor Claire McCaskill lost a close race for governor two years ago because big margins in St. Louis and Kansas City were not enough to offset a dismal showing in rural communities. MCCASKILL: Big mistake. I've been to rural Missouri constantly in this race. I've listened. They're frustrated.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Do you have a moment I can ask a couple questions?
KING: At GOP headquarters in conservative Joplin, calls to Republican voters do turn up evidence some are looking elsewhere this time.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Do you support Senator Jim Talent or Auditor Claire McCaskill for the United States Senate? McCaskill, OK.
KING: At Joplin's 1st Presbyterian Church, Pastor Cliff Mansley predicts talk of major conservative angst will be proven wrong come Election Day.
REV. CLIFF MANSLEY, 1ST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: There are going to be some people who are frustrated with what they see, but I think that's a fairly small percentage of people in terms of how they vote.
KING: But in this race, in similar Senate contests in Ohio, Virginia, and Tennessee, just a small shift in rural communities could be enough for Democrats, and Talent's sharpening attacks reflect GOP jitters. At a debate Monday night in conservative Springfield, he demanded McCaskill release her husband's tax returns.
TALENT: And we have reason to believe that maybe she and her husband haven't paid all of them.
KING: McCaskill called it a desperate smear. Four years ago, Talent and the president campaigned shoulder-to-shoulder in southwest Missouri; this year, not one mention of Mr. Bush in the senator's 15- minute stump speech.
TALENT: Because he's not running in the race.
KING: It's one of those little differences that could affect the margins in the Bible Belt and the balance of power in Washington.
(on camera): So consider Missouri the Republican Senate firewall. The GOP figures, if it can hold this seat, it is all but certain to hold its Senate majority. And as a result, it's pouring in significant resources for late campaign TV ads and an aggressive voter turnout effort.
John King, CNN, Kansas City, Missouri.