Blunt Fights to Survive as Kander Seeks Missouri Upset

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JOPLIN, Mo. — Jason Kander, the Democratic challenger in Missouri’s unexpectedly tight Senate race, invoked his military service at a crowded bar here Tuesday afternoon, rallying his troops for a final two-week push in one of the closest and most critical Senate races in the country. “I don’t know if you know this — there’s only 14 days to go in this deal,” Kander said. “We have a saying in the Army: ‘You can stand on your head for 14 days.’ You can keep working for 14 days, right?”
His opponent, Republican Sen. Roy Blunt, offered his own version of that argument during a stop at a flooring company in Branson Monday afternoon. There will be no time on Election Day to make up for what doesn’t happen in the final two weeks, Blunt told a quiet group of about a dozen supporters.
“I think we’re ahead, but I’ve been telling our team every day for two months, we should start every day acting like we’re two points behind,” the freshman senator said.
It’s a race that strategists in both parties, as well as nonpartisan elections analysts, view as …