I've no idea where you are going exactly, but it was indeed about a lot of issues, not the least of which was a Republican winning on the strength of Democrat voters as a ruse, a guy hiring his entire family as paid members of his staff, a guy pretending to be the anti establishment guy, pretending to be Tea Party and claiming his entire problem was establishment persecution....and on and one. His entire campaign was a lie and a disaster and I hate to break it to you, but the phrase "Senator McCaskill" means we all damned sure were pulled under by this drowning, arrogant, selfish man.
Sorry, by “debacle” I originally meant the scandal that was the quote itself, not the whole campaign. So when you said it was about more than the one quote, I was interpreting you to be saying the furore over the quote was about the issues behind the quote. You know, abortion, etc. But you were talking about everything else contributing to his defeat, which is another issue.