it doesn’t make up for it. It’s still a net loss of one senate seat that was, until a few days ago, locked up for us.
Crying over spilled milk doesn’t clean it up any faster. Republicans will just have to make the other races that much more important.
Akin is only running for 1 out of the 23 Democrat Senate caucus seats that they are defending. I highly doubt that the Dims will hold the Senate no matter how the Missouri Senate race goes, and I don’t think that race is nowhere near being conceded back to the Dims.