I suspect that a good many of the moderates who refused to allow Akin to heal, actively voted democrat just to prove their point.
Moderates are lying, manipulative, bottom feeding, scum. Never doubt it and you can’t go wrong.
There is no such thing as a “moderate”. They are just dishonest, weak or cowardly leftists. They just want to go in that direction a little more slowly and cautiously. But they are always eventually willing to take the next step.
What is it that they want to moderate? The good or the bad?
Who would want to moderate the good. And any decent person should take a stand against the bad rather than wanting to moderate it.
I suspect that you are correct.
Furthermore though Romney won the state by 10 points, the Democrats captured every statewide office except one.
It also didn't help that McCaskill's prime commercial for the last week of the campaign had Romney and McCain attacking Akin -- playing their words of public rebuke over and over again.