I live in Missouri and I will tell you what you obviously do not know. Claire is as liberal as Obama.... but, she has spent the past year attempting to distance herself far far from his destroy America fast and furiously.
We just had a primary, and it was close election among the top three. Akin got the majority, Brummer second, and Steelman a very close third.
We in Missouri do NOT do 'legitimate rape' under any circumstances, except for single issue voters. We do not consider it a topic of conversation to attempt to 'explain' say like 'compassionate' conservative.
This state is majority rural with the exceptions of St. Louis, Kansas City, and Columbia a college town full of the liberal ilk.
Missouri is filled with common sense peoples, yet there are cocoons of single issues peoples from all walks of life.
Agriculture is prime in this state and we have endured a life threatening drought these past many months, and the very last thing on our minds is to hear a MAN put forth a notion that a woman can prevent an unwanted pregnancy from a legitimate RAPE.
Most of us in this state want Claire to go back to running her nursing home empire.... Guess what that means.... pills for old Missouri grandmas instead of procedures. We do NOT want the campaign hijacked over some single issue voter that has NO clue of the world outside of his own single issue..... See now those coveted moderates vote and they will flee the GOP because of the heaps of ridicule they will hear every thirty minutes on the tube or the radio about 'legitimate rape'.
I do not care how 'good' a man Akin literally is, he is NOT running for a deacon ship, he needs those out of work, hauling water for their cattle voters.
Akin didn't bring it up. He answered a direct question. Now, you may have preferred him to answer a different way, but he did not do or say anything that is cause for him to be kicked to the curb by conservatives.
Akin is more conservative than Brunner or Steelman. Frankly, if so-called conservatives would stop jumping on the bandwagon out of sour grapes (because Steelman didn't win after Palin endorsed her) or out of panic, this would die a quick death.