Where? Please post the relevant text.
If you're talking about this...
...a six-term social conservative whom the vulnerable Democratic senator helped promote to GOP voters because she thought she had the best chance of beating him...
That isn't reporting, that's opinionating and bloviating which is typical of Politico.
This?
McCaskill signaled shed rather run against Akin when her campaign launched a heavily rotated spot in July that branded him the true conservative a blatant appeal to devoted conservatives who decide GOP primary contests.
Again, that isn't reporting, that's opinionating and bloviating which is typical of Politico.
That's not proof, it's opinion.
Akins 12-year voting record is more susceptible to attack and his deeply held conservative beliefs have prompted him to make statements that Democrats believe are outside the mainstream for most Missourians.