Romney ups the ante, explicitly tells Akin to drop out.
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.
Romney is loudly promising voters no cuts to Medicare benefits under his plan — while Team Romney concedes benefit cuts will be necessary under his Medicare plan
Todd Akin reiterates that he’s staying in the Missouri Senate race.
Todd Akin will announce whether he’s staying in the Missouri Senate race, on Mike Huckabee’s radio show, in the next half hour, Huckabee just tweeted:
Todd Akin will return to The Mike Huckabee Radio Show in the next 30 minutes to announce his final decision on if he’s staying in the race.
— Gov. Mike Huckabee (@GovMikeHuckabee) August 21, 2012
Stay tuned.
Addition of Paul Ryan to the ticket moves Wisconsin from leans Obama to toss up.
It’s hard to believe there’s anything left to say about Todd Akin’s rapid meltdown, but I think one misunderstanding — or in some cases intentional misreading — still underlies a great deal of what’s already been said. And it cuts right to the questions of what made Akin’s comments so upsetting and so incendiary and why the GOP has tied him to the train tracks. Read More
Rep. Steve King gave a tepid defense of Todd Akin Monday, while every other Republican in the universe was pushing him toward the exit. King also may have stirred up a controversy of his own: “I just haven’t heard of that being a circumstance that’s been brought to me in any personal way,” he told an Iowa reporter who asked about pregnancies as a result of statutory rape or incest.
Ryan Reilly goes inside the war room of the groups battling against the forces of voter suppression in 2012.
New Akin TV spot: “I ask for your forgiveness.”