What I'd really like to get to the bottom of is why voters respond so much more strongly to Senate candidate crazyness than House. I mean, the district Todd Akin safely held for a decade is not more Republican than the state overall.
If that weren't the case the Senate's insane malapportionment would mean R Hold Majority Forever in the current alignment.
Maybe it's because an individual Senator has, generally speaking, more clout and influence than an individual Representative?
re: Akin...I'm not sure why this is the case, though this Wikipedia bit is intriguing:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Todd_Akin#U.S._House_of_RepresentativesSeems like he just barely won a crowded primary in his first house race *56 votes).
That, and the GOP lean of the district basically ensured that he would win general elections comfortably in the cycles to follow.
