On decision day, Akin committed to Missouri Senate bid

Tuesday, September 25, 2012 | 11:28 a.m. CDT

JEFFERSON CITY — On a day when top Republicans hoped he would quit Missouri's Senate race, Todd Akin instead planned to rev up his campaign Tuesday with a statewide bus tour, hoping that donors displeased by his much-criticized remarks about rape would reopen their checkbooks.

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