From Chuck Todd:

Thereโ€™s plenty of evidence to suggest that President Bush may have been the deciding factor that killed the GOPโ€™s momentum in some key Senate races over the last week. One Republican consultant is convinced that Bushโ€™s last-minute visit to Missouri on behalf of ousted GOP Sen. Jim Talent did the incumbent in. According to the network exit polls, Democrat Claire McCaskill crushed Talent among those late-breaking voters who decided in the final three days (a full 11 percent of the electorate). Bush also made a last-minute trip to Montana, where anecdotal evidence indicates the presidentโ€™s rally for Republican Conrad Burns stopped the incumbentโ€™s momentum in Billings.