So the bottom line is that Rep. Todd Akin has until 5 PM central this afternoon to drop out of the Missouri Senate race under the state law. After that, things get much more complex. Republicans are desperately trying to get Akin to drop out of the race, but not because they think what he said was wrong, but because they’ll cost the GOP a Senate seat they’ll basically have to have in order to take control of the upper chamber in January. Many in the GOP are calling for Akin to leave the race. Nobody in the GOP is calling for him to leave the House as well, which is why I call hypocrisy on basically the entire party. If what he said was as “indefensible” as the lip service suggests, then he shouldn’t be in Congress, period, right?

Anthony Weiner was driven out for less.

But it seems there are plenty of Missourians who really don’t care if Akin is an awful human being. Republicans will vote for him anyway. Only winning matters to them, as the latest PPP poll shows: