YES!
Obama had all but written off Missouri, and Romney didn't need to work about it until Akin opened his mouth. Now Romney will have to spend to defend Missouri, and that money could be important in picking off another state like Wisconsin.
Most of the GOP learned the lesson from Sharron Angle's crushing defeat in 2010; run a weak but ideologically correct candidate in a swing state and hand the race to your Democrat opponent. Image how different the last two years would have been if Harry Reid would have lost.
Stupid remarks followed up by bumbling interviews are no way to win, and they have consequences. Akin must go, and go now.
I’m so sick of these near clinical psychotics ruining things for the GOP in close elections.