When the Missouri Senate race is still neck and neck next month, or into October, which national Republican outfit will suck it up and start putting money back into the race? The NRSC? The superpacs?

We’ll have a brief “discussion” of whether attack ads on Claire McCaskill count as support for Todd Akin, the man national Republicans have just denounced. But it won’t last long.

The high-minded denunciations will give way to the practical reality that control of the Senate could very well come down to the outcome in Missouri. Facts is facts.

David Kurtz

David Kurtz is Managing Editor and Washington Bureau Chief of Talking Points Memo where he oversees the news operations of TPM and its sister sites.