Insisting his fundraising has rebounded after a nationally publicized gaffe, Republican Rep. Todd Akin said Friday that TV viewers in Missouri should expect to see his U.S. Senate ads all the way until Election Day.
One of the biggest questions surrounding Akin's campaign has been whether he will be able to raise enough money to spread his message after being deserted by some big-dollar donors because of remarks he made last month about women's bodies having ways of avoiding pregnancy in cases of "legitimate rape."
Akin has run two solid weeks of statewide TV ads since those remarks. His initial ads featured a public apology while subsequent ads sought to shift the focus to the record of Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill, whom he is challenging in the Nov. 6 election. Those ads ended earlier this week on some major market TV stations, raising questions about whether Akin's finances were getting tight.