On eve of midterms, candidates are sweating the small stuff

In a midterm election with major national issues at stake, it was the small stuff - geography lessons, potentially frivolous legal threats and whether a 91-year-old man was called a clown - that seemed to dominate some of the hardest-fought races on Saturday. Three days before Election Day, candidates in Senate, House and gubernatorial races canvassed for last-minute support in an election expected to be in part a referendum on President Obama's stewardship of the economy, the war against the Islamic State and the ebola threat.

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