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Missouri primary: McCaskill and Democrats helped Republican Todd Akin to Senate nomination
By Keenan Steiner Aug 8, 2012 11:30 a.m.Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., and Democratic outside groups, pouring in over $1 million during Missouri's Republican Senate primary, got the guy they wanted: Rep. Todd Akin, who Tuesday upset two other Republicans to take the GOP nomination.
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