Leverkusen made the extra man count and looked to have snatched all three points when a Barnetta cross knocked on by Kiessling and Burak Kaplan's deflected effort looped over Drobny and into the net in the 90th minute.
And the recent special election in New York's 20th Congressional District in which Democrat Scott Murphy initially trailed by more than 20 points -- but wound up slightly ahead before officials count absentee ballots -- shows that the GOP is making few, if any gains among voters.