[so_real]

Both the parties are ganging up on him for the miscue. This is a negative bump. We've seen dozens of bumps just in the last year, bumps up and down, for all the major candidates. Assuming Akin stays in the race, and I hope he does, the Pro-Akin and Anti-McCaskill people of Missouri will align once more to gain the Senate seat. I have no doubt. If the GOP is willing to beg us to support a man of Romney's low conservative value, it should have no problem pulling for Akin. It is insulting to the conservative base not to do so.

[ncalburt]

This guy is no victim.

He made a really stupid comment in a senate race not the town council race.
He made things worse by going on the Hannity radio show sounding like a delusional fool.

He won the primary because there were 8 candidates in an open primary.
The Dems and Claire gave him a roughly 2 million in ads attacking his rivals .
Then that disaster Huck stuck his nose in the race too.