By Maria Hickey, KWMU
St. Louis, MO. – Missourians who voted against Jim Talent in the U.S. Senate race were voting in part against President Bush and the war in Iraq.
That's the findings from an Associated Press exit poll from yesterday's election.
One-third of those polled said their vote was a way to express opposition to the president.
Nearly all of those voters chose McCaskill, according to the poll of more than 2,300 voters.
In an interview with NPR this morning McCaskill says voters see her as someone who can hold the government accountable.
"Missourians go wait a minute, how have we spent 350 billion dollars on the war and we don't have the right armor on our men and women who are serving," McCaskill said. "Those are the kind of basic common sense questions that they want answered, and I think they have confidence that I'll be able to get those questions answered."
More than four-fifths of McCaskill's voters disapproved of the war in Iraq, including two-thirds who disapproved strongly.