Any GOP candidate could have won those seats. Romney won them by 13% and 16%. Palin had nothing to do with it. Now, if Palin’s endorsement had helped Mourdock and Akin win, I’d have been impressed. I like Palin personally, but her political judgment stinks to high heaven. She helped take out RINOs during the primaries in swing or blue states who would have won in the general. She cost us 2 Senate seats in 2010 and another 2 this year.
Palin’s political instincts are phenomenal, and she endorsed Aiken’s opponent in the primary, not Aiken.
Palin moved the Senate right with Fischer and Cruz.