Todd Akin was not “Todd Akin” - the media made him “Todd Akin”. The media will never make any Democrat “Todd Akin”.
A Republican or a Libertarian could spit in the street and MSM would harp on it, grind on it, and obsess on it day after day week after week until the low info voters thought it was grand theft auto; with pretty much any Democrat, not even the “live boy/dead girl” standard matters any more.
The Democrats are nothing more than a form of organized crime with a patina a political legitimacy; the media are their facilitators and enablers, and so far as I’m concerned are even more culpable than the slime that get into office.
Todd Akin made one stupid statement in an ill-timed interview. Yeah, he was stupid for not stepping aside because it was easy to see that his entire campaign would be defined by that statement. His profound apologies only magnified it.
Meanwhile, Democrat Amanda Curtis does it again and all we hear from the media is crickets.
Bingo.