Given its status as one of the Democrats' most promising Senate pick-up opportunities this year, much attention has already been paid to Claire McCaskill's bid to unseat Republican incumbent Jim Talent in Missouri. But Democratic strategists looking to 2008 may want to pay even closer attention -- especially to McCaskill's unusual efforts to increase her support among rural voters. McCaskill's is a strategy that upends the typical Democratic approach to statewide campaigning in red states.