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Rep. Todd Akin may not be exiting the Missouri Senate race. But he has, apparently, exited the state: According to Politico, the Republican candidate behind the “legitimate rape” boo-boo is shacked up in the Ohio headquarters of his longtime political consultant, adman Rex Elsass. And therein lies a story. READ MORE >>

“‘God called me to run—that’s the way he thinks,” said Jeff Smith, a former Democratic state senator in Missouri … of Mr. Akin, a six-term congressman who represents parts of eastern Missouri. “I think he thinks it’s his destiny, and so you’re going to have to get somebody pretty high up there—or, in his mind, pretty close to God—to push him out.” READ MORE >>

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Last night, PPP released a survey showing Akin leading McCaskill by one point in Missouri. Even if that was true yesterday, I doubt it will be true next week. And that probably makes Democrats favored to maintain control of the Senate.  READ MORE >>

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Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan were among the first Republicans to condemn Todd Akin, the GOP Senate candidate in Missouri who over the weekend suggested women’s bodies naturally thwart pregnancy in cases of “legitimate rape.” Maybe Romney and Ryan were anticipating the political backlash and maybe they were genuinely appalled at what Akin said. I really don’t know. I’m willing to give them the benefit of the doubt—and to give them credit for reacting so quickly. READ MORE >>

Representative Todd Akin, the Republican challenger to Missouri Senator Claire McCaskill, is in trouble for announcing that a the odds of a woman becoming pregnant from "legitimate rape" are vanishingly small. "If it's a legitimate rape,” Akin explained in a weekend TV interview, "the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down." READ MORE >>

Still not much evidence of a Ryan bounce.   READ MORE >>

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