Todd Akin Senate: Missouri Republicans Split Over Whether Candidate Should Step Down

Split Decision On Akin
FILE - In this file photo of Tuesday, April 5, 2011, Missouri Congressman Todd Akin, right, a conservative Republican currently running for the U.S. Senate, listens to House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wis., before a news conference on Ryan's budget agenda, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's campaign on Sunday, Aug. 19, 2012 said Romney and his running mate, Rep. Paul Ryan, disagree with Akin's comments that a woman's body "has ways" to prevent pregnancy after rape. Romney spokeswoman Andrea Saul says Romney's administration would not oppose abortion in cases of rape. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
FILE - In this file photo of Tuesday, April 5, 2011, Missouri Congressman Todd Akin, right, a conservative Republican currently running for the U.S. Senate, listens to House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wis., before a news conference on Ryan's budget agenda, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's campaign on Sunday, Aug. 19, 2012 said Romney and his running mate, Rep. Paul Ryan, disagree with Akin's comments that a woman's body "has ways" to prevent pregnancy after rape. Romney spokeswoman Andrea Saul says Romney's administration would not oppose abortion in cases of rape. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

U.S. Representative Todd Akin continued making the rounds on Conservative talk radio outlets Monday in an attempt to apologize for controversial remarks made about abortion, "legitimate rape", and pregnancy made in a FOX2/KTVI-TV interview Sunday. But influential Republicans are unconvinved he should stay in the race: That's the main finding of this week's Red Arch survey.

In an unscientific Patch poll of 32 Republican Party influencers taken since late Sunday night, 47% percent said the Wildwood Republican should drop out of the race, while 40.5% said he should stay. Four respondents, or 12.5% said they had no opinion.

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