No, he is not destined to lose.
It's hilarious that this is coming from a Mark Kirk supporter, one of the biggest political hacks and outrageous liars to run for office. And I'm a pretty conservative guy as well. I don't care whether you are a republican or democrat but anyone who lies about his or her military service like Kirk did should be shunned completely. Even though Alexi was worse, that so many Republicans blindly supported this fool suggests to me that this party has some issues.
He was a million times better than Alexi on policy though which is the important thing. Still the military issue like in Conneticut made the race close when it shouldn't have been. It Roskam had run he would have wiped the floor with Giannoulias.