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So what is new in Todd Akin's campaign for the Missouri Senate? Lots of sheepish Republican movers and shakers, that's what. An enthusiastic Newt Gingrich led the way, Jim DeMint followed, flourishing a check-book, and now Roy Blunt, rather obviously holding his nose, is back on board with Brother Todd:

That's the way things work in "Old America" where the ritual evocation of the scary Muslim, socialist, communist, in-over-his-head naif, brilliant schemer, and, incidentally, African-American, man in the white house is enough to leave normally intelligent individuals in such a panic that they can't figure out how they're being sold down the river. However, just remember that even though Old America may be enjoying a last hurrah in Missouri, it's still a fact that the old always, eventually, gives way to the new.

Now that Todd Akin (R-Mo.) has passed the deadline for withdrawal from the Missouri Senate Race, Senator Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) has released a new TV ad that mentions several of Akin's more controversial comments including the highly publicized comment that "legitimate rape" does not result in pregnancy. Some have speculated that Senator McCaskill's Campaign held back from highlighting Akin's rape comments in hopes of keeping him in the race after the Republican National Committee pulled their funding in the wake of negative national attention.

It's time to point out some home truths about Claire McCaskill's voting record. Why, you ask, is this important? Anyone can check out her record online - anyone who's interested in the truth that is.

"While he is a pleasant and sincere man, his ideas are not pleasant for most Missouri families," says Claire McCaskill of her opponent Todd Akin. Filmed by Jerry Schmidt.

This weekend, an interviewer asked Rep. Akin why he would not support a woman's right to choose abortion in cases of rape. Akin's shocking response?
"From what I understand from doctors, that's really rare. If it's a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down. But let's assume maybe that didn't work or something. I think there should be some punishment, but the punishment ought to be on the rapist."

Meet anti-choice Rep. Todd Akin (R-MO). Rep. Akin recently won a tight Republican primary to challenge pro-choice Sen. Claire McCaskill in Missouri this November.
If you haven't heard of Rep. Akin before, you won't be able to forget him now. Days after his victory, he confirmed his extreme anti-contraception beliefs on a radio show.

Until now, the Medicaid debate has been about budgets and states' rights. But a statistical study by Harvard researchers in the New England Journal of Medicine found a 6 percent drop in the adult death rate in Arizona, Maine and New York, three states that have recently expanded coverage for low-income residents along the general lines of the federal health care law.

McCaskill is proposing to delay the implementation of the regulations in order to give the coal industry more time to comply. Blunt, who voted to block the more stringent standards, claims that the regulations are "job-killing" without evidence, and ignores billions in health care savings.

Today Senator Claire McCaskill (D-MO) joined her Republican colleague in the Missouri delegation and voted against restoring 4.5 million dollars in Food Stamp Aid t