Two lessons here.

One, never trust "internal polls" - they tell you what you want to hear.

Two, money is overrated in political campaigns.

Cantor was a douchebag. He won't be missed.

This is a great win for the American people. I hope this is the beginning of a new trend. Out with the crony capitalists who make up the bulk of Democrats and Republicans in Washington!

I used to live in his district. Never thought this was going to happen.

This virtually hands the seat to the Democrats if they're running anybody with half a brain.

(June 11, 2014 at 11:41 am)Pickup_shonuff Wrote: This is a great win for the American people. I hope this is the beginning of a new trend. Out with the crony capitalists who make up the bulk of Democrats and Republicans in Washington!

Um...you do understand that the guy who won is even a bigger shithead than Cantor, right?

(June 11, 2014 at 11:41 am)Pickup_shonuff Wrote: This is a great win for the American people. I hope this is the beginning of a new trend. Out with the crony capitalists who make up the bulk of Democrats and Republicans in Washington!

It would only be a win if the man who beat Cantor, improbably named Brat, go on to donate the seat to a democrat.

Politics is not whining about what ought to be, it is about achieving the possible.

(June 11, 2014 at 11:41 am)Pickup_shonuff Wrote: This is a great win for the American people. I hope this is the beginning of a new trend. Out with the crony capitalists who make up the bulk of Democrats and Republicans in Washington!

Don't celebrate too early. This was only a local upset in Cantor's district. Voters in that district are pretty conservative and they obviously didn't believe Cantor was conservative enough for them, especially where granting amnesty to illegal immigrants are concerned.
The fact that other Republican incumbents won their pimaries shows that this isn't a national trend, otherwise democratic incumbents would have to worry as well, at least not until the mid-terms.

(June 11, 2014 at 2:13 pm)A Theist Wrote:

(June 11, 2014 at 11:41 am)Pickup_shonuff Wrote: This is a great win for the American people. I hope this is the beginning of a new trend. Out with the crony capitalists who make up the bulk of Democrats and Republicans in Washington!

Don't celebrate too early. This was only a local upset in Cantor's district. Voters in that district are pretty conservative and they obviously didn't believe Cantor was conservative enough for them, especially where granting amnesty to illegal immigrants are concerned.
The fact that other Republican incumbents won their pimaries shows that this isn't a national trend, otherwise democratic incumbents would have to worry as well, at least not until the mid-terms.

Got some news for ya: Virginia doesn't require you to register a party affiliation, and Democrats can vote in Republican primaries. And Democrats love helping unelectable Tea Party lunatics defeat established Republicans. It has a habit of opening up otherwise unassailable territory.

(June 11, 2014 at 11:56 am)Minimalist Wrote:

(June 11, 2014 at 11:41 am)Pickup_shonuff Wrote: This is a great win for the American people. I hope this is the beginning of a new trend. Out with the crony capitalists who make up the bulk of Democrats and Republicans in Washington!

Um...you do understand that the guy who won is even a bigger shithead than Cantor, right?

Highly doubtful... I admittedly don't know a lot about him but unlike Cantor, he believes the bankers (Cantor's pals) involved in the collapse of Wall Street should have been thrown in jail, he's against K Street and the corporate lobbyists, believes in ending the bulk surveillance programs conducted by the NSA under Obama, and he's criticized the Right for heralding individual liberty while restricting abortion, homosexuality & gambling. I'm down with all that. D.C. needs more politicians who think that way. And the caricature of him being a right-wing extremist who rode to victory on the Tea Party is simply that, a caricature. Much of his rhetoric appeals to those of us who consider ourselves on the liberterian Left as well.