McCaskill would be 7-10 points behind right now if Brunner or Steelman were the winners, instead of 10 points ahead like she is against Akin, and would be up against better fundraisers and candidates to boot. After all, the only reason Akin won was McCaskill’s spending $2 million telling voters how conservative Akin was.
She was 7-10 points behind before the GOP-E and it’s stalwarts began trashing their own candidate because of a quasi-misstatement.
I’m sure the best course of action is to continue trashing him, so carry on.