Looks like Cooter from Dukes of Hazzard helped bring Cantor down
Just a good ole' boys. Never meaning no harm...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/10/virginia-primary-results_n_5479472.html
Former congressman Ben Jones (D-Ga.), better known as "Cooter" from Dukes of Hazzard, has a plan to knock Eric Cantor out of the House. He's urging his fellow Democrats to cross over and vote for a tea party-backed candidate in Virginia's primary election.
Cooter, who ran against Cantor in 2002, has penned an open letter calling upon Democrats in his former Virginia district to vote in the open primary next Tuesday for tea party opponent Dave Brat in order to defeat U.S. House Majority Leader Cantor.
Crossing party lines to vote in an open primary has a long tradition in the solidly one-party South, Cooter argues in his letter. "y voting for David Brat in the Seventh District Republican primary, we Democrats, independents, and Libertarians can make a big difference in American politics," he argues. "It is your right to cast that vote. It is an 'open' primary and it doesn’t preclude anyone from voting anyway they wish in November. It may be the only way to empower those who want to make a statement about the dysfunctional Congress and 'politics as usual.'"
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And many thanks from way out here in Montana! Cantor is just one of a list (too long a list) of those who need to be defeated in order to salvage our democracy.
They should always be taken with a pillar of salt.
rocktivity
I never watched dukes of hazard...
.....I am impressed!
Even a loss to a teabagger warms my heart. Cantor and his smug face always looking like he wanted to stab Boehner in the back. What great news!! 
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/06/ben-cooter-jones_n_5463196.htmlBut by voting for David Brat in the Seventh District Republican primary, we Democrats, independents, and Libertarians can make a big difference in American politics. It is your right to cast that vote. It is an “open” primary and it doesn’t preclude anyone from voting anyway they wish in November. It may be the only way to empower those who want to make a statement about the dysfunctional Congress and “politics as usual.”
rocktivity
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At Rachel Maddow's Debunktion Junction, you can find the "track" record of Cantor's pollsters McLaughlin and Associates.
Besides, there's a difference between Republicans voting Dem and NON-Republicans voting Dem. Must keep going with the "stunning Teabagger Party victory" angle at all costs -- that's where the ad revenues are!
rocktivity
But I find this map interesting, particularly the Richmond suburbs.
It's more than immigration and expensive steak dinners and Cantor being a first-class dick.
