If 30 million dollars worth of outside interference wouldn't have tilted things we probably would have had Senator Brooks. Thank the GOPe.
Brooks finished 3rd. If a perv hadn’t run (or we otherwise knew about his predilection for 14 year olds in time), Brooks would have beaten Strange in a two way primary.
On the bright side, tax reform probably doesn’t need that seat, and there aren’t any other big legislative items remaining in this Congress. Democrats still have a lot more vulnerable Senators on the ballot next year and won’t have this pariah to help them Akin their way back into more seats than they deserve to keep. If Jones is under any delusions of keeping this seat past 2020, he will feel compelled to join the Republicans on some things, but we’ll have to see. He could realize this is a temporary job and go full Pocahontas. We also get a shot at Senator Smalley’s seat next year.
Any candidate would have been "defective" if they'd been politically attacked, lied about and savaged the way Moore was right on the eve of the election.