Not sure what forum to post this on since its a political posts.
House majority leader Eric Cantor lost his district today to a tea party candidate David Brat. I believe Cantor spent around $5 million on his campaign, while Brat only spent $100,000. As someone who does not follow politics religously how big of an upset was this? Also, does this mean anything significant to the GOP?
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It is a pretty big upset considering the fact that Cantor's camp was expecting to win over 60% of the votes and also because he was likely the next GOP Speaker of the House. It is nothing new in the battle for control of the GOP in which the tea party seem to be losing overall but causing a lot of havoc for the establishment. It will be interesting to see how Cantor finishes out his term, he could sit back and do nothing or say f the party and push through bills that he has always wanted to get done but feared the effects it would have in the next election. He still has 6 months minus recesses of relatively limitless power to push bills forward.
Conservative vs. Tea Party. The Republican Civil War continues!
If the Tea Party helped this guy win over Cantor, guaranteed the Republican nomination in 2016 for President will be strong right-winger. As a result, Hillary or Biden is going to win the Presidency.
How did that prediction turn out moron?
The Republicans need to get their act together before people like me switch parties
A political party that panders to angry white men will not be a winning strategy this century. For the Republicans to have any chance of being relevant to younger and minority voters, they need to focus on the economy, taxes, and foreign policy. That's it. The Republicans talking about preventing gay marriage, believing in teaching creationism in school, completely ignoring the effects of global warming, unrestricted access to firearms, religious stuff, etc. are only hurting their cause. They sound like a bunch of dinosaurs.
I'm not saying Democrats are better, but their story is definitely resonating better with voters.
How did that prediction turn out moron?
It blows my freaking mind you resurrected at 6 year old thread to make this inane comment.
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This is an upset for the ages. Blew my fucking mind when I saw the headlines. Never in my wildest dreams did I think Cantor would actually lose to a (bigger) Tea Party guy.
This is evidence that no one is more fired up to vote in 2014 than the Talk Radio listeners. Wow.
as a libertarian, this pisses me off. sure, in my utopic world, I'd pay less taxes for gov't programs that help the lazy and the gov't would stay out of everyone's lives (gay marriage, religion, etc., I'm fiscally conservative and socially liberal). It doesn't piss me off because I disagree with the new guy (don't know much about him), it pisses me off because the party I more closely identify with is in disarray and this is a prime example of it. we have zero shot at getting anything done if you have an "us & them" attitude within a party. while no one as a whole will agree with guys like Clinton, LBJ, etc., they got shit done. VA's old governor Mark Warner got shit done. I see more gridlock on the horizon if more elections go this way. there isn't a democrat on the face of this earth that will sign a bill with a tea party agenda, and tea partiers are absolutely insane if they think they can take the entire House, there just simply aren't enough of them.
I feel like all the republican base vs tea party fighting within the GOP is going to lock the presidential election for Hiliary (as if the trends in demographics running away from the GOP didn't already do that)
Loses, come on bro
Guaranteed 2 more years of gridlock. Tea party sucks. Republicans need to get their shit together.
I like gridlock. The less restrictive and damaging legislation the better. (Not a tea partier: a libertarian)
I'm pretty similar.
Never really liked Cantor or GOP leadership in general for that matter so originally I was pretty happy to see Cantor lose. But not sure if Brat will be much better, if at all (his hard-line views on immigration don't really line up with his hard-line economic views, IMO).
If I am not mistaken, I believe the state has open primaries. So this could possibly be of no real news. In those states it is common practice for people to vote for what is previewed to be the worse of the two candidates of the party they do not support.
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