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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums'Cantor is the first House Majority Leader to lose since 1899'
Yikes.
http://www.vox.com/2014/6/10/5798660/cantor-is-the-first-house-majority-leader-to-lose-since-1899
ProSense
(116,464 posts)yeoman6987
(14,449 posts)I would rather they get rid of Paul Ryan....although Canter was so arrogant. This new guy is big time anti-immigration and very religious. Did we really want to have this guy win??????
TexasTowelie
(111,322 posts)The irony is delicious.
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)Guess I'll have to say something different. ....
Good, I'm glad it happened to that nasty scumbag.
bobGandolf
(871 posts)I hadn't thought of that.
tallahasseedem
(6,716 posts)and run as an Independent.
Myrina
(12,296 posts)VA say hello to your new Dem congress critter!
former9thward
(31,806 posts)That is not allowed in Virginia.
tallahasseedem
(6,716 posts)Now I am VERY happy!
JimDandy
(7,318 posts)former9thward
(31,806 posts)But in high profile races, like Congress, it really is a mission impossible.
sawdust
(199 posts)Too funny
VanillaRhapsody
(21,115 posts)Suich
(10,642 posts)"Foley was the first Speaker of the House since 1862 to be defeated in a re-election campaign."
Or are you just talking about losing in a primary?
tritsofme
(17,325 posts)Suich
(10,642 posts)pansypoo53219
(20,908 posts)kentuck
(110,950 posts)All those Republican voters may not go along with the status quo? Oops!
malaise
(267,845 posts)tomm2thumbs
(13,297 posts)*(update to the link mentions this to ease the confusion)
Cha
(295,929 posts)smallcat88
(426 posts)to a more deserving jackass. Oh wait . . Mitch McConnell, Boehner . . .
catbyte
(34,174 posts)district tonight. That's what happens when you get too big for your britches.
Hassin Bin Sober
(26,273 posts)They said it has never happened "In the history of the Republic".... LOL fox news
One of the other clowns referred to Cantor's opponent as now being "Congressman elect"
They really DO hire idiots.
Cha
(295,929 posts)to go. Too bad about those lamenting his loss.
bobGandolf
(871 posts)Spider Jerusalem
(21,786 posts)saying "since 1899" implies it's happened before (which it hasn't).