In a historically bad Republican year, Blaine Luetkemeyer is a historically bad candidate:
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee released a Global Strategy Group poll conducted October 5-7 of 400 likely voters with a 4.9 percent margin of error showing that Judy Baker leads Blaine Luetkemeyer 40-36 percent in an initial head-to-head matchup.
They might as well have nominated Brock–he was at least entertaining.