A bitter Senate battle ensued, and many polls showed that as many as 80% of Canadians were opposed to the tax.
A big shift in Ohio, and a Senate battle in Missouri that turned all eyes to the Show Me State.
Democrats did not use it even during one of the most contentious Senate battles in modern history, involving the first President Bush's nomination of Clarence Thomas in 1991.
The Senate battle drew thousands of new voters to the polls, although it was hard to gauge last night what role the high turnout played in the primary for governor.
In another Senate battle, the Republicans lost an effort to create a tuition voucher program for public schools in the nation's capital.
A fierce Senate battle ended with the victory of the Republican incumbent, David Durenberger, incomplete totals showed.
Early this month, his desk at the Council on Foreign Relations was littered with papers from the Senate battle.
His nomination was ultimately defeated after a tumultuous Senate battle.
When the race is over, each side is expected to have spent $8 million or more in what some experts are calling the most expensive and meanest Senate battle of the political season.
USA Today leads with the upcoming Senate battle over competing Democratic and Republican bills regulating HMOs.