TPM reports:

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Akin is perhaps the boldest among a crop of conservative 2012 nominees who could hamper GOP efforts to take back the Senate in the fall. Akin has called for an end to the school-lunch program and a total ban on the morning-after pill.

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The PollTracker Average shows Akin leading McCaskill by a margin of 49.7 percent to 41.3 percent.

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