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Good article, and it all makes sense-but you left out one reason Cantor lost that is not a small one: nobody likes him, trusts him or has a personal sense of loyalty to him as a person. His reputation as a camera-hogging backstabber who cares about only himself and those who own him always had the potential to boomerang on him. Good times.
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Meh…How many people have a personal sense of loyalty to their representatives? Short of them actually being in your immediate family, I suspect no one does. And Cantor has been getting elected in Virginia pretty solidly since 1992, and into the House since 2000. So why was he so likable for the past 6 elections, but suddenly became unlikable this time? Factor in that he spent $5 million on the PRIMARY this time…compared with $1.8 million in the entire election in 2012.
I think the article is a whole lot of words to say,“shit happens”, and does a terrible job of presenting a case. A Majority Leader that drops that type of money loses in a district that was gerrymandered just 3 short years ago specifically to make it safe for republicans…is upset in a primary, out of no where? That’s not some minor little blip on a radar screen, that’s the sort of thing that causes campaign managers everywhere to stand up and take notice.
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Oh-ho-ho, Hee-hee-hee
Eric the Half-a-Bee!
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And yet the WSJ has now pronounced that it was Brat’s victory that killed immigration reform. Duh. As if they were ever going to tackle it, out of fear for what might happen to their precious $174,000/year sinecures, their perks from lobbyists … What worthless leeches.
Not a big deal?
How DC’s Political Intelligence Biz Made Fat Cats Fatter
Posted: 07/02/2014 12:42 pm EDT
Looking over the last few weeks of news, if you would seek a single headline that sums up the Hulk-like grip in which corporate America holds the US Congress, this might be it: “Eric Cantor’s Loss a Blow to Wall Street.”
So wrote The Wall Street Journal, that Pravda of the One Percent, on the day after House Majority Leader Cantor lost his Virginia GOP primary to tea party upstart David Brat. “Since he was first elected to Congress,” the Journal noted, “Mr. Cantor has been Wall Street’s go-to guy on issues big and small… he was a top recipient of Wall Street donations and he regularly stood up for the banks, securities firms and insurance companies.”