I don't want people to vote against him, I want him to withdraw. I find it amusing to see people lauding a weak candidate who barely won a plurality in a three way race as though he's an outsider of sorts - the man spent six terms in Congress and was looking for a fat retirement in the US Senate. Some outsider!
It is indeed a bit odd. Brunner was an outsider... a rich businessman with no political experience which made some professional pols ‘wary’ of him. Steelman was an outsider... in the sense she was pretty independent, and antagonized and ‘didn’t’ play well with the state GOP party machine. Akin was the one with the decades-long political career, a pro who had an edge with the state party leadership. He was the ‘least’ outsider of the big trio who ran.