And yet, he had nothing to do with it. I suggest you talk to FReeper ChicagoLady, who was the nominee during one of the special Congressional elections that Steele ignored during his tenure (indeed, he was more interested in fawning over liberal RINOs rather than Conservatives). It was a motivated base and the Tea Party that was responsible for the 2010 wins. Zero himself did more for turnout than Michael Steele, who was incompetent and remains one of the worst party chairs of the past 50 years.
Clue ~ there's a reason for that ~
So, what was it you would expect a Republican candidate to do in the very belly of the beast!
BTW, I"d have voted for Gregory Bedell in the special primary election ~ which Pulido won with 25% of the vote ~ rather a Romneyesque sort of candidate.
Seriously, you run in the Democrat party's premiere district and expect Republicans to toss millions to you to finance what almost anyone would view as a totally hopeless campaign....... hard to feel sorry for her ~ she tried, but she needed to relocate to a better district.
Winner M. Quigley (i) Dem 65.6% 168,530 votes.
Versus D. Schmitt GOP 28.7% 73,860 voters
And N. Wade Grn 5.7% 14,555 voters.
That is hard core Democrat. This Quigley guy was still running on a campaign in favor of a high speed rail line from the 5th district to downtown St. Louis. The line would be 110 MPH ~ cost about 50 billion dollars and have maybe 10 passengers a day.
That's the kind of district NO Republican ~ and aren't we all men and women of ideas? ~ could win. Those people stepped out of IDIOCRACY. Maybe an exciting funny truck smack down might attract them ~ more likely mud wrestling contests on Fridays.
The reason to run a Republican is simple ~ have a name on the ballot just in case a massive plague hits the area leaving behind only Republican voters. Otherwise not a lot of need to spend money there.