...the New Republic, argues that the NRA may not be as powerful as everyone thinks (my emphasis):
But real senators with low NRA ratings routinely win
Senate elections in culturally conservative states. Bill Nelson has an
"F" from the NRA and campaigned on gun control in 2000, yet he always
outperforms Democratic presidential candidates in culturally
conservative stretches of northern and central Florida. Nelson isn’t the
only Democrat succeeding in Dixie with an “F.” He’s joined by Senators
Tim Kaine ("F"), Kay Hagan ("F"), Jay Rockefeller ("D"), and Claire
McCaskill ("F"). In Ohio, where John Kerry went hunting before
the 2004 presidential election, F-rated Sherrod Brown carried much of
the southeastern part of the state in 2006 and cleanly won a second term
in 2012. Senator Heidi Heitkamp could have peered across North Dakota’s
eastern border and noticed F-rated Amy Klobuchar winning rural,
conservative, western Minnesota with more than 60 percent of the vote.
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