Eric Cantor’s Defeat: Winners and Losers

National Review ^ | 06/11/2014 | Joel Gehrke

[Chad_the_Impaler]

primary vs. general election

[Chad_the_Impaler]

OK, you are right. The report I read was wrong. Rating the counties conservative versus liberal by using the result from the 2012 congressional general election, I found the following:

More conservative
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| 1. Hanover - Brat
| 2. New Kent - Brat
| 3. Goochland - Brat
| 4. Culpeper -Cantor
| 5. Orange - Cantor
| 6. Spotsylvania - Cantor
| 7. Chesterfield - Brat
| 8. Louisa -Brat
| 9. Henrico - Brat
| 10. Richmond City - Cantor
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Less conservative

[houeto]

Jenny Beth Martin and her Tea Party Patriots group

Heavy on the "Party" with that group. They do know how to party on OPM! They will never get a dime from me.

[C210N]

Somewhere between tiny and none. Turnout was low

Turnout was high.

12% was "high"?

[dead]

It is being reported that the more conservative counties went for Cantor. The more liberal counties went for Brat. Operation chaos.

Where is that being reported? Do you have a link?

[dead]

Before everyone declares this to be a victory for “the tea party” (yes, I know it was a victory for the IDEA behind the TP), explain how and what kind of help the TP gave to Brat.

There is no Tea Party. Not in the sense that they have officials and offices and a bank account and a plan.

There are bunch of groups who claim some Tea Party mantle, but anybody can do that. Karl Rove can do that if he wants. So can James Carville.

Most of the Tea Party groups probably have good intentions but only represent the small group of people that have officially affiliated with them. Some groups are undoubtedly set up to make some money for some political scammer with an email account. And a few are actually GOP-e, trying to build fundraising mailing lists.

What the Tea Party has is voices, like Laura Ingraham and Mark Levin, who threw their radio time to Brat, and votes which showed up in very large and unexpected numbers. Individual Tea Party people also can write checks to candidates that don't show up as official Tea Party support, but it is. Brat was helped that way too.