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Today's Poll!Conservatives Fund backs Akin in Senate bid
Missouri Republican Senate candidate Rep. Todd Akin speaks Tuesday during a news conference in St. Louis. A conservative fundraising group endorsed embattled Akin on Thursday and said its membership had pledged $290,000 to help replenish the Republican’s financially strapped campaign against Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill.
Friday, September 28, 2012
A conservative fundraising group backed embattled Missouri Senate candidate Todd Akin with a much as $290,000 for his campaign Thursday. A few hours later, Akin handed new fundraising fodder to his foes by suggesting that Sen. Claire McCaskill had behaved in a less “ladylike” manner than she has in the past.
“She was very aggressive in the debate, which was quite difference than the way she was when she ran against Jim Talent” in 2006, Akin said during a campaign stop Thursday at the state capitol. At that time, he added, “she had a confidence and was very much more sort of ladylike and all.”
Akin’s comment came a few hours after he announced the endorsement—and the promise of badly-needed campaign cash—from the Senate Conservatives Fund. It was the highest-profile financial commitment Akin has netted since his campaign lost of millions of dollars of planned advertising by other national groups that aid Republicans. Those groups withdrew their support after Akin remarked last month that women’s bodies have ways of averting pregnancy in cases of “legitimate rape.”
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spelchek 7 months, 3 weeks ago
Didn't vote for this man in primaries and apparently for good reason, he's a PR nightmare. Thank you Republicans for giving me a candidate that forces me to hold my nose as I cast my vote for him. A senate majority is too important to not vote this time around. By the way, listening to constituents who just voted for McCain tell you NO Obamacare and vote for it anyway is.....not very ladylike. Telling a women her rape wasn't legitimate....isn't very gentleman like.
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