about the crossover voting. They just seem to think the high turnout and Cantor loss was just pissed off Teabaggers.

it doesn't fit their narrative. Gotta keep the drama going for drama's sake.

I really hope the teabaggers aren't that strong anywhere. Hopefully, the entire R party will run to the teabaggers and be trounced in the general.

is the plan. Dems are fighting to win this year - just as they did in '08 with their caucus strategy. Maybe David Plouffe is consulting at the DNC?

This makes me a lot more optimistic about November.

I don't think anyone stayed home.

Makes sense.

Perhaps you could bother to read the OP.

Talk about a firing squad.

His tea party replacement will be far worse.

Junior Reps have to climb the ladder and at the current rate of States turning Purple, I don't see any rush to place the teabagger replacement anywhere that Brat can do a ton of harm. Besides, he may get his ass handed to him come November.

Brat, if he wins, will be one vote of 435. He won't have the power to steer national policy. At least for a while.

All the tenure/ranking that Cantor had just vanished. Brat will be in the back of the line in all the committees and gets the crappy office.

What I care about is increasing the number of those with tea party mentality in the house - a cadre which is already making it difficult to make any headway on a number of issues because of the power their numbers wield. Moderate progress was only made on fiscal matters when Boehner finally decided to defy them. You really think adding to their numbers will make it easier for the saner Republicans to ignore them?

He will add one to the tea party wing of the House, which already has enough members to make life miserable.

So it's not really a change.

That's why the tea party ran a candidate against him. They didn't want to be in power, so they replaced a powerful representative with a brand new powerless one. In case I need it:

More likely, the issues where Cantor didn't vote with the tea party were the very ones where Democrats hoped to use Cantor's "leadership" to make some progress. The tea party was sending a message - cross us & we will replace you with someone who won't.

Education & a message to non Tea Party Republicans:

[hr][font color="blue"][center]You have to play the game to find out why you're playing the game. -Existenz[/center][/font][hr]

aren't actually people too my friend, so he got his ass handed to him by those actual people he chose to ignore. What congressman who cares about his district doesn't even bother to show up in that district on election day? I think he just forgot what his job actually was. I'm also sure that his cronies on K Street will give him a nice soft parachute made out of 24K gold.

I'd like to think that Cantor might have been having a crisis of conscience, but to do that one has to actually possess a conscience to begin with, which I don't think Cantor does.

Universal Leaf sh!tstain is high praise for what likely was the least stupid guy the GOP had in congreff. Wonder if his wife will stay on Domino's board?

Will likely make twice the money he did.

Thanks!

game. None."

A little something to remember for November.

Thank you. Forward!

Talk about arrogance. And where will all those funds go now?

They're blaming Cantor's more "liberal" stance on immigration reform; that the base is looking for a more conservative representative. I think they have totally missed the schism this will cause in the Republican party. When you have a Teabagger vs an establishment Repub, in an open voting state, the Dems are going to go heavy on the Teabagger.

Let's hope in the general election, the "normal" conservative base will stay home rather than vote for a Teabagger and the Dems will come out strong for the Dem candidate Jack Trammel.

They both deluged the local RW talk radio station with ads and never heard anything about the tea party.

He was not endorsed by any of the local Tea Party groups (and there are a lot of then).

I don't see any mention on his website of any Tea related anything.

http://davebratforcongress.com/about-dave/

I get what you are saying but that is the Teabaggers rushing out to claim victory (which in part they should) and the media following their PR once again.

When the people are allowed to vote freely, they often get rid of the oppressive representatives.

It is a mild form of anarchy; this system. When it works as intended rulers such as this Cantor fellow are often deposed.

Just doesn't happen often enough. That's why some don't want free and open elections.

I assume Boehner is happy to see the backstabbing weasel's back for a change. Cantor would stab Boehner, Boehner's mother, and probably his own mother in the back if he thought it would get him Boehner's job.

If the Republican wins the general election he will not have the seniority and influence Cantor had, a plus for the Democrats even if they lose.

Any way I'm just happy to see Cantor gone, couldn't stand to see or hear him.

Yes, Cantor's out. Huzzah.

However, he lost to a candidate who is farther to the right than he was in every category: an economic libertarian, a Christian conservative, and vociferous foe of ANY immigration reform. By any conceivable measure (except maybe personality), Brat will be an even more loathsome congressman than Cantor.

And make no mistake: he will be a congressman.

Now, you may think that that's okay, because he'll have very little power, while Cantor had a lot -- so overall, a good trade. Except, of course, that the House leadership as a whole will now tack even further rightward in order to avoid being Cantorized.

So yes, Cantor's gone. Huzzah. But after the initial rush of schadenfreude, it's hard to see anything here for Dems to celebrate.

Cantor drove most of the Repub agenda which now will flounder
Good analysis here
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025081280

Also immigration reform is dead. That is what the MSM is drilling in today. That means that the one we-are-not-aholes thing some if the Repubs wanted to do (and is getting more and more popular with the general public) will not happen. If it does it will be seen as coming completely from the Dems.