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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.
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.
Hilarious to watch the GOPers cat-fighting.
This is too funny.. Go Gang Of Phonies, we're with ya!
It would be great to see many of the old timers thrown out of office. People from both parties.
We need new blood.
I think you're on target. Congressional approval ratings have been at all-time lows in recent years. Add to that Cantor's unpopularity among the voters in his district, and the immigration issue was probably all it took to give Brat the victory.
I may be wrong, but I get the feeling that a number of current incumbents in both the house and senate could become unseated because of a general discontent with the current business as usual.
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.
Hilarious to watch the GOPers cat-fighting.
Some people will make things up just to make things up it seems.
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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Originally Posted by florida.bob
This is too funny.. Go Gang Of Phonies, we're with ya!
leftists pretending to be republicans in order to vote in primaries are a gang of phonies?
He lost a Republican primary that had low turnout. What it tells the reality based community is that the GOP base is out of touch with the rest of the country.
Conservatives *have* new blood and could gain more still if they shove the rest of the Vietnam era sector of the party out the door.
There are plenty of persons from Hispanic/Latino, gays, AAs and just plain old white middle class voters who are open to the Republican party in theory, but won't be associated with hate and race/ethnic baiting.
Virginia in particular is trending Democratic and smart Republicans from that state realize that fact. God if they didn't the results from last years election for state wide offices should have made it clear. Yet another salvo will be fired against "Old Virginny" when in a few weeks if not sooner same sex marriage is made legal in that state.
The population of the places that matter in Virginia is changing as in the rest of the country. More and more Hispanics/Latinos, gays, single women and others are moving into the more urban parts lured by the various good paying jobs in technology and government. Then you have the spill over from Washington D.C. with everything from military families to government workers.
So the TP had a beef with Eric Cantor because he wasn't "conservative" enough to suit their tastes. Just what effect to they think the academic nut job they are sending to replace the man will have? In short nothing, just as with many other TP members sent to the house. All they do is run their mouths and cause rifts in national politics and the Republican party. Well sooner or later people get tired of that and remember even a wounded lion can attack.
It seems only to be the TP "conservatives' that think they can drag this country back to the 1950's, the rest of us know better.
There's more tea party lunatics in Congress than socialists. There's only one socialist in the entire Congress, and he's an independent.
Bernie isn't even a real socialist. By socialism, he means Scandanavian style "socialism."
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