The Todd Akin story just keeps going and going and going…

I’ve got a few Todd Akin-related tidbits, so I’ll get right to them.

The first thing that caught my eye was a tweet from Dave Catanese, a reporter for Politico.com:

As a result of his incredibly dumb tweet, Catanese was removed from any coverage of the Akin story, citing the fact that Catanese’s tweet made Catanese a part of the ongoing coverage of Todd Akin’s comments about rape and abortion.

Surprisingly (or unsurprisingly, depending on your perspective), after everything that’s transpired regarding Todd Akin’s comments, Public Policy Polling (@ppppolls) sent out these tweets regarding the U.S. Senate race in Missouri:

Count me among those who are not surprised that Rep. Akin’s comments have not impacted his poll numbers more negatively. While I’ve gone back and forth when contemplating this situation, I’ve ultimately come to the realization that there are a good number of conservatives who likely support the ideas Rep. Akin was espousing, though not necessarily the language he used to express those ideas.

And despite a multitude of calls for Rep. Akin to remove himself from the Missouri Senate race from both sides of the political spectrum, a group calling itself Patriots for Akin has set up an online petition asking Todd Akin to stay in the Missouri Senate race instead of bending to the will of party bosses.

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5 thoughts on “The Todd Akin story just keeps going and going and going…

  1. Why is the woman carying the baby not entitiled to “personhood” rights? Has anyone considered what condition this person is in, as far as,emotional health, phyisical health, mental health, financhal means, employabilaty, relationship to babys father, other resources. No one has an answer to this : who will pay for the new baby boom??? Will the children be neglected??? Adoption is not the answer, too many kids are in foster care on the tax dime. Please confront them
    demand answers.

  2. I’m not surprised by the polling, either. Claire is neither a Dem nor a Repub, and that does not make her a moderate. It just makes her mushy — as Missourians saw when she announced that her major political decision to date was made for her by her teen-aged daughter . . . who is at least decisive, so the Dems ought to have run the kid against Akin.

  3. I’m not familiar with the culture and media control in Missouri so i can’t estimate one way or the other why the numbers would be as they are. But I do think Akin is negatively impacting the GOP as a whole nationally and that’s where the attention lays.

    1. If I were the MO Dems, I would have spent that money too, because he was widely viewed as being the weakest of all the GOP candidates to face Claire McCaskill.

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