(Angus Reid Global Scan) - Claire McCaskill maintains a slight advantage in Missouri, according to a poll by Research 2000 released by the Saint Louis Post-Dispatch and KMOV-TV. 47 per cent of respondents in the Show Me State would support the Democrat in this year's election to the United States Senate.

Republican incumbent Jim Talent is second with 44 per cent, and nine per cent of respondents are undecided.

McCaskill has served as Missouri's state auditor since 1998. She lost the 2004 gubernatorial election to Republican Matt Blunt by 2.9 percentage points.

Talent was first elected to the U.S. Senate in a 2002 special election, defeating Democrat Jean Carnahan—the widow of former governor Mel Carnahan—with 52 per cent of all cast ballots. Talent had previously served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1993 to 2001.

On Jan. 24, McCaskill vowed to support a proposed ballot initiative that would protect research on early human stem cells in Missouri. Talent is the co-sponsor of an upper house bill that seeks to ban embryonic therapeutic cloning in the U.S.

The senatorial election will take place in Nov. 7.

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