Claire McCaskill trails GOP candidates in Senate race, poll shows July 28, 2012
Coker predicted that McCaskill's fortunes at this point turn in large part on luck.
"They're going to need a little more than message politics. They're going to have to hope for an incident" that hurts the other side, he said. Missouri, he added, "is still winnable for the right centrist Democrat. ... She had those credentials, but with the sharply partisan issues, she has stood with the president on every big one."
Or you can cast hope aside and create "an incident" where none existed.
Perhaps McCaskill's most daunting problem, though, lies with independent voters, a group she once claimed.
What part of this do you NOT get... Liberals and republicans are about equally divided in this state. One needs the majority of 'INDEPENDENT' votes to WIN!!!
Have you never watched the 'Independents' hooked up to Frank Luntz's emotion meters? Obviously Akin does not know they exist, because he sure was not talking to them when he said what he said.
Claire is NOT a 'legitimate' moderate, she is trying very hard to play one though.