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Missouri’s voters could not have a clearer choice in their state’s potentially pivotal U.S. Senate race between Sen. Jean Carnahan (D), who voted for working families 93 percent of the time in 2001, according to the AFL-CIO, and former U.S. Rep.

As a former collegiate wrestler, perhaps it is appropriate that Sen. Paul Wellstone (D-Minn.) has earned the title of “Undisputed Champion” of working families. In his 12 years in the U.S.

Throughout his 18 years in the Senate, Tom Harkin has been one of the leading fighters for working families, compiling a virtually unparalleled record of advocacy on workers’ rights, trade, jobs, education, health care and retirement security.

In his first term, Sen. Max Cleland (D-Ga.) has proven himself to be a strong supporter of working families and an advocate on such key issues as health care, stopping corporate abuses, pension protection and Social Security.

Colorado is home to one of the most closely contested Senate races this fall and two of the most widely divergent candidates to face off against one another.

The incumbent senator, Wayne Allard (R), has one of the most anti-worker records in Congress.