I personally don’t see how it affects other races as long as the candidates are smart enough to answer decently when the media inevitably asks.
“I haven’t thought about it because I’m busy running my own race here so I’m really not qualified to answer.”
True, politicians can’t avoid the necessity of talking like a politician.
But when you clear away all the opinion, the controversy and the garbage—what’s really threatening our country is corruption, which comes from deceptiveness, which evolves from the habit of side-stepping the truth which in turn comes from rejecting love of the truth.
From all appearances, Akin doesn’t have a problem with loving the truth.