The Tea Party people I heard of were against him. Plus he was endorsed by ultramoderate Mike Huckabee, who was touted this year, to be the man who, “ended rightwing dominance of talk radio.” The left was going crazy for him in the spring. The Democrats also spent $1.5 million backing Akin.
The democrats want to run against Akin because they think he is too extreme on abortion and they could beat him. Well before he got diarrea of the mouth the polls had him up by double digits on the worthless McCaskill.