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Turnout in the Cantor-Brat primary was only 12%. That is really low turnout, no wonder now the Democrats are putting up a challenger in the district. 12% is not a good safety margin. All they have to do is get out the Democrat voters (there's gotta be at least more than 50k in this ~750,000 population district). But, since this is a R+10 district, I'm not holding my breath. But, if this can happen, maybe a Democrat can win, too
Not going to happen. Unless their messiah is running, they're staying home.
Turnout in the Cantor-Brat primary was only 12%. That is really low turnout, no wonder now the Democrats are putting up a challenger in the district. 12% is not a good safety margin. All they have to do is get out the Democrat voters (there's gotta be at least more than 50k in this ~750,000 population district). But, since this is a R+10 district, I'm not holding my breath. But, if this can happen, maybe a Democrat can win, too
The Democratic challenger really has no chance. Primary turnout is different from general election turnout.
72% of voters in Cantor’s district support the bipartisan immigration reform legislation on the table in Washington right now to only 23% who are opposed. And this is an issue voters want to see action on.
Nobody knows what is on the table right now so how can they support it? This is the same crap pulled with Obamacare.
Oblivious to actual evidence, of course, you will still see Tea Party-types gleefully claiming (as Erick Ericksen has already done this morning) that Cantor lost because, among other things, he was 'out of touch with his district' on the issue.
But then, I can't honestly say that I have any problem with Republicans insisting on learning the wrong lessons from this...
This result makes sense. I would not assume Cantor's loss is a signal of tea party resurgence. Primaries in VA are open to all, so many Democrats voted for Brat specifically to unseat Cantor. In addition, this district has gone for Obama in the past 2 presidential elections, so unlikely that it has suddenly become a tea party stronghold.
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