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CANTOR LOSES
politico.com ^
| 6/10/14
| Jake Sherman
Posted on 06/10/2014 5:14:03 PM PDT by cotton1706
RICHMOND, Va. — Dave Brat, a local economics professor, toppled House Majority Leader Eric Cantor on Tuesday night in the most shocking primary defeat since Republicans took the House in 2010.
The conservative challenger’s victory halts one of the most meteoric rises in national politics, and illustrates the strong anti-incumbent fever that has taken over Cantor’s Richmond-area district. Cantor is the second House incumbent to lose this primary season — Texas GOP incumbent Ralph Hall was defeated by a tea-party backed challenger at the end of May.
Cantor’s defeat not only reorders Virginia politics, where Cantor was the highest-ranking Republican, but it completely throws the House Republican leadership into flux. Cantor, 51, was long seen as the next speaker of the House after John Boehner retires.
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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Politics/Elections; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: 113th; 2014gopprimary; 2014midterms; adiospendejo; aliens; brat; byebyerino; cantor; elections; teaparty; teapartyrebellion; uniparty; va2014; win; winning
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I absolutely love posting this!!!
To: cotton1706
Best headline (next to obama impeached) EVER!!
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posted on
06/10/2014 5:14:31 PM PDT
by
Reddy
(B.O. stinks)
To: cotton1706
HELL YEAH!!!
Pour me a cold one, I need to celebrate!
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posted on
06/10/2014 5:14:33 PM PDT
by
South40
(Liberalism is a Disease)
To: cotton1706
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posted on
06/10/2014 5:14:39 PM PDT
by
DanielRedfoot
(Creepy Ass Cracker)
To: cotton1706
Sweet. This doesn’t happen often enough.
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posted on
06/10/2014 5:15:09 PM PDT
by
skeeter
To: cotton1706
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posted on
06/10/2014 5:15:33 PM PDT
by
TADSLOS
(The Event Horizon has come and gone. Buckle up and hang on.)
To: cotton1706
Fox trying to now encourage Cantor to run a write-in campaign. GET LOST, FOX! Voters have rejected shamnesty and the establishment!
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posted on
06/10/2014 5:15:38 PM PDT
by
Viennacon
To: cotton1706
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posted on
06/10/2014 5:15:38 PM PDT
by
fhayek
To: cotton1706
Is this in the words of GA’s Jimmuh “for real”, or is this a headline to deceive? I am truly shocked.
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posted on
06/10/2014 5:15:47 PM PDT
by
Theodore R.
(Liberals keep winning; so the American people must now be all-liberal all the time.)
To: South40
I just poured myself a drink!!
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posted on
06/10/2014 5:15:48 PM PDT
by
cotton1706
(ThisRepublic.net)
To: All
BOOM....TASTE MY NIGHT STICK
There once was a guy named Cantor
Who in Congress was full of banter
He encountered a Brat
and his face went splat
Now he is done and that is that.....
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posted on
06/10/2014 5:16:28 PM PDT
by
Kolath
To: skeeter
Damn. That one caught me off guard. I guess I gotta start paying attention.
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posted on
06/10/2014 5:16:31 PM PDT
by
Vermont Lt
(If you want to keep your dignity, you can keep it. Period........ Just kidding, you can't keep it.)
To: cotton1706
*happy dance*
Thanks for the happy post cotton1706!
I called Cantor’s office once, when it got out that he was attending that anti-Tea Party weekend in FL and his staff was rude, belligerent and belittled my opinions. I have NEVER been treated that way by any Congressional staff and IMO he must condone that type of thing or his staff wouldn’t get away with it. So good! This loss couldn’t happen to a better person!
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posted on
06/10/2014 5:16:33 PM PDT
by
leapfrog0202
("the American presidency is not supposed to be a journey of personal discovery" Sarah Palin)
To: cotton1706
Best news to come out of VA since ____ fill in the blank.
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posted on
06/10/2014 5:16:35 PM PDT
by
Theodore R.
(Liberals keep winning; so the American people must now be all-liberal all the time.)
To: cotton1706
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posted on
06/10/2014 5:17:12 PM PDT
by
bigbob
(The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
To: cotton1706
Thank God! Let this be a recurring theme for the other states tonight. Linda Graham is next...
To: cotton1706
Yes!!!!! Good bye Cantor the Rhino. Have fun looking for a job as a lobbyist—should not be hard to do.
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posted on
06/10/2014 5:17:36 PM PDT
by
Fungi
To: cotton1706
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posted on
06/10/2014 5:17:40 PM PDT
by
Clintons Are White Trash
(If stupid ever reaches $150 a barrel then I want the drilling rights to Maxine Water's head.)
To: cotton1706
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posted on
06/10/2014 5:17:41 PM PDT
by
GilGil
To: cotton1706
I love reading this.......yes!
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