This is a typical line: “Why should so few people have such an effect on so many people?”
A few responses:
1) Who knows if more people turning out would have helped Cantor? I suspect not...and we will never know.
2) INTENSITY on an issue is just as important as POSITION on an issue. Any Republican that has tried to side with Democrats on Gun Control learned that fact long ago. Intensity brings out voters, intensity also flips voters. What the Republicans in Washington learned last week is that Amnesty is not the same as bringing home a “water project”, and going against the base on Amnesty, especially now, is at least as risky as going against them on gun control. So all of their gay pollsters (and they’re always gay) can tell them Amnesty won’t hurt them, but they just saw a giant get felled.
3) Finally, the Republicans Reps need to understand that their job is to represent THEIR VOTERS on issues, like Amnesty. There are plenty of Democrats willing to sell out the country on the issue - there is no need to join them.
Without evidence, this author is taking a leap making that assumption. I'm inclined to believe that more people voting would have still resulted in the same outcome.
Brat had a winning message and he delivered it tirelessly to whomever would listen. He couldn't even get the national Tea Party to return his phone calls.