Cenk Uygur
@TheYoungTurks·6.5M subscribers·72.8K videos
Akin's Desperate Last-Minute Appeal to Women
Posted
November 3, 2012
Views
45,826
Likes
1,026
Comments
297
Engagement
2.89%
November 3, 2012
45,826
1,026
297
2.89%
Every word spoken in this episode is indexed. Type any phrase to jump straight to the moment it was said.
Type any word or phrase that may have been spoken. Click a result to seek the player to that exact moment.
Try a name, a topic, or a quoted line
See what was published immediately before and after this episode.
7:30Now Playing"In the final week of the election, Missouri voters will see two sides to Republican Senate nominee Todd Akin.
One is a compassionate guy women can trust. The other is a flawed politician Republicans need to win back the Senate. Each will get its own airing in the final leg of the campaign with ads urging voters to choose the unpopular Republican and defeat incumbent Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill.
Still struggling to win support among women voters after his "legitimate rape" comments from August, the Akin campaign's final ad push includes a minute-long spot in which a rape victim praises Akin as the most compassionate person she's ever met."* Cenk Uygur, Michael Shure (Current TV Political Correspondent), and John Iadarola (Host, TYT University) dissect this commercial and the last-minute appeal to save Akin's campaign after his disastrous rape comments.
*Read more from Pema Levy/ Talking Points Memo:
View the original Missouri ad from Todd Akin:
Support The Young Turks by Subscribing
Support The Young Turks by Shopping
Like Us on Facebook:
Follow Us on Twitter
Buy TYT Merch
Sentinel Indexing in Progress
Metadata and chapters are available. Claim extraction for this episode is pending.
All video content is delivered via YouTube embedded players in accordance with the YouTube Terms of Service. Sentinel provides research tools that promote discovery and accountability across political media.
