Bost is too violent to get elected to anything other than very strong Republican district. And lest we forget, We Ask America way overstated Republican candidates in 2012.
Bost originally won in a swing district by taking it from a Dem. He was targeted a couple times after that before the Dems decided he was too hard to beat in southern IL. BTW are you basing the violence claim on the famous video. I can tell you how that was staged if you like. Former Moderate was at the IL Capitol that day and he can lend his view, too.
That video looked real to me, but I'm interested in your theory how it was staged. He was first elected in 1994, so I'd wager the definition of swing in his part of Southern Illinois has changed since then.
