“I Think Immigration Reform Is DOA. The American People Spoke Through Virginia Yesterday.....

Everybody is getting a wake-up call.”

This is a quote from Laura Ingraham. Really Laura? DOA? The American People Spoke?

Here's the reality of the Cantor loss:

He was beaten by 36,000 of the roughly 65,000 people who voted in last night Republican primary in Virginia's 7th congressional district. "Cantor's loss last night came at the hands of about 5 percent of his constituents."

Put that in context. Virginia's 7th district has about 758,000 residents. In 2012, 381,000 of them voted in the congressional election. 223,000 of them voted for Eric Cantor.

Cantor's loss last night came at the hands of about 5 percent of his constituents. It came at the hands of about 9 percent of the total number of people who voted in the district's 2012 congressional election. It came at the hands of about 16 percent of the people who voted for Cantor in that election.

And though Cantor's defeat is national in its effects, less than three-hundredths of 1 percent of the people who voted in the 2012 House elections voted against Eric Cantor last night.

Here's the link to that data: http://www.vox.com/2014/6/11/5799710/Eric-Cantor-beaten-tea-party

No Laura - the American People didn't speak through Virginia on immigration reform.

Laura and the conservative RW radio hosts are displaying 'big heads' and taking credit that they made Brat and I only hope that they don't let this inflate their egos to think that now they can be called 'kingmakers' in future elections. I call this the 'big head syndrome'.

Cantor lost because he didn't take care to massage his district. Remember 'all politics are local'. He was more interested in Washington politics than what was going on back in his district. If anybody had a big head - it was Cantor. He suffered from 'big head syndrome' and it got the better of him.