It explains why Claire wanted to face Akins and what she did to try to ensure that happened. You can disbelieve the article if you want to, but it is a widely known fact in Missouri, outside of Todd Akins' reality
Where? Please post the relevant text.
If you're talking about this...
...a six-term social conservative whom the vulnerable Democratic senator helped promote to GOP voters because she thought she had the best chance of beating him...
That isn't reporting, that's opinionating and bloviating which is typical of Politico.
This?
McCaskill signaled she’d rather run against Akin when her campaign launched a heavily rotated spot in July that branded him the “true conservative” — a blatant appeal to devoted conservatives who decide GOP primary contests.
Again, that isn't reporting, that's opinionating and bloviating which is typical of Politico.
That's not proof, it's opinion.