Did you notice during the primaries how there were attack commercials against all the Repub candidates by Claire's camp except for one-Todd Akin? They chose him for a reason.
Her only real attack against him was that he was "too conservative" for the state. The others (Steelman and Co) had real attacks against them, using actual quotes and voting records (or company finance info). In the case of Akin she pushed that he was very conservative, knowing that his comments about Medicare alone would lose him a large voting bloc in Missouri. (He wants an end to Medicare because he believes it's not the government's job to give out any kind of health care.) She already knew his stance about abortion, including his crap spewed here, because he'd made similar comments along with Paul Ryan just last fall. She knew his views on school lunch (basically, if the parents are too poor to feed the kids the government shouldn't worry about feeding them either. Let 'em starve.)
Now, look back at the primary. Her campaign threw out a number of hardballs against the real challengers and lobbed a slow pitch towards Akin. If it's done right, she'll be the one hitting the ball out of the park. And I think she might have done this perfectly.
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