The very conservative junior senator from Missouri can tell you. He was running narrowly ahead of Missouri Governor Mel Carnahan on Oct. 16, when Carnahan died in an airplane crash. After Carnahan's death, the Democrat pulled into the lead and won narrowly. His widow, Jean, who handled the situation with understated class, will serve for two years in the Senate until a special election is held. Voter News Service.
Nobody remembers correct predictions.
Everyone remembers bad ones. The polling consortium that did the faulty exit polling on Election Day earned a big black eye. Other pollsters are second guessing VNS's flawed methodology. Dunham is a White House correspondent for Business Week's Washington bureau. The McGraw-Hill Companies Inc. All rights reserved.