Blunt fundraiser now excited about working for "flawed candidates"

Roll Call is reporting that Rep. Roy Blunt (R-K Street) has locked down two new fundraisers to right his ship -- Karen Mohan Day and Heather Grote.

Day, you'll remember, was very hesitant to ink a deal with Blunt in March:

A key player in any statewide Republican candidate's fundraising is Karen Mohan Day. Day, of Wildwood, is the single most powerful GOP fundraiser in the state, claiming to have helped haul in an estimated $60 million dollars for various Republican candidates over the past 15 years.

According to two sources, Day has yet to sign a long-term deal with Blunt, and is instead helping him so far on an event-by-event basis. "The fundraising isn't going as well as expected," said one GOP staffer, who knows Day but is currently unaffiliated with any campaign.

"She's worried that, following (Kenny) Hulshof, she can only leverage her donor relationships so many times on behalf of flawed candidates," said the other source. Day was not reachable on Saturday. Hulshof lost the Governor's race to Jay Nixon by a staggering 19 percentage points.

What's changed in two months to make prospective donors more excited about supporting a hopelessly flawed candidate?