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Todd Akin Says He Knows He’s Winning Because His Female Opponent Is Getting Less ‘Ladylike’You might remember Republican Senate candidate Todd Akin from the time he said last month that women who suffer "legitimate" rapes undergo biological processes that prevent them from getting pregnant. It was one of the wrongest things a politician has said publicly in modern America, and Akin was criticized from people on both the left and the right. All that is apparently behind us now (what with Akin's former GOP critics supporting him again), and thus Akin is back to saying archaic nonsense about women.
This time Akin's comments pertained to his female Democratic opponent, Senator Claire McCaskill, whom Akin told reporters is getting defensive and thus behaving less like a proper woman should behave:
http://gawker.com/5947071/todd-akin-says-he-knows-hes-winning-because-his-female-opponent-is-getting-less-ladylike