Top Pollster: ‘McCaskill A 2:1 Favorite’ Now After Akin Rape Comment

The top pollster for the New York Times, FiveThirtyEight’s Nate Silver, just said that “on instinct” he now puts Senator Claire McCaskill as the two-to-one favorite in the race for her U.S. Senate seat after Congressman Todd Akin‘s rape comments today. McCaskill in most polls was down by more than eight percentage points on average, although Silver had put the race at a “toss up” in Akin’s favor until today’s rape comment by Akin.

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