McCaskill warns Democratic donors of pitfalls of blocking Trump nominee for high court

[NurseJackie]

72. But she didn't lose, did she? She won, didn't she?

She would have lost the last election except for Akin's rape comments.

So he was a flawed candidate, and she ran a better campaign and won. Ultimately, it's less important why he lost, and more important that he lost.

Stick a "Bernie Sanders" type of liberal in that race (instead of someone like McCaskill) and Akin would easily win. They just don't like (or relate to) the purebred (so to speak) liberals in Missouri. People who hate McCaskill may get a lot of personal satisfaction out of being able to run someone who's more liberal than she, but the state is traditionally and historically very conservative. Like it or not, that's just the way it is. I'd rather have an "imperfect" Democrat in that seat than a Republican. The people who hate McCaskill need to snap out of this fantasy of having 100 "Bernie Sanders" types in the Senate. It's never going to happen.

You know full well the likelihood of seeing the same fate as Blanche Lincoln from a neighboring state is pretty high.

I know no such thing. Unless you can direct me to some authoritative and reliable source of information that you're using to formulate these probabilities and percentages and likelihoods.