neanderthal about todd akin, but it is his neanderthalism specifically about women and women s rights that is defining this race in missouri. even after a valiant effort to make it seem like todd akin has lots of female support. look, i am a women. i m a women. even after this valiant effort to make it seem like aladies loe todd akin, mr. akin is losing women in missouri by a 27-point margin according to the right leaning rasmussen poll in missouri. losing women by 27 points. gender gap is really important in that senate race and in a number of senate races. republicans are on the losing side of the gender gap in otherwise competitive senate races in virginia, wisconsin, in massachusetts. republicans are even on the losing side of a gender gap in a senate race where their candidate is the woman. running against a guy. in connecticut. which is maybe not surprising. after two years in which republican politics have been more aggressively and successfully hostile to women s rights, partic