Todd Akin was a six-term Congressman, and a six-term state Representative. He has a BA in engineering and a Masters in Divinity. He served in the Army National Guard, and the Army Reserves.
He was a good man whom the Republican leadership ran away from when he answered a media "gotcha" question on rape.
Akin fell to what Mark Levin calls a pseudo-event. Moore fell to the same, except that he was targeted by McConnell instead of McConnell running away scared.
-PJ
Exactly right. Too many people do not understand the liberal media role (mostly headquartered in New York city, which voted for Obama by 89%) in manipulating elections.