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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDoes anyone have any idea what Dave Brat is up to since he beat Cantor?
IIRC the last anyone heard from him is when he said he didn't have a "well-crafted" answer to whether he thought there should be a minimum wage. OTOH, Jack Trammell is campaigning.
Two explanations for this:
One is he thinks the office is his just because he's a Republican in the 7th District of Virginia. He might want to ask Senator Coakley how that went.
The other is his handlers and the Koch Brothers know he's not going to wait until October to claim he isn't a witch and that he can fix the "out of control Senate" with Second Amendment remedies, and they would prefer the election not be over before the Fourth of July. Which would lead one to the conclusion they rented from the Taliban the steel box Bowe Bergdahl was kept in, and they're using it to store their candidate until two weeks before election day.
randome
(34,845 posts)[hr][font color="blue"][center]You have to play the game to find out why you're playing the game. -Existenz[/center][/font][hr]
yeoman6987
(14,449 posts)Jack is starting at a 6 percent deficit right out the gate. Hopefully Jack wins this, but it won't be easy.
HooptieWagon
(17,064 posts)That's damn good. He's got a real chance.
Prophet 451
(9,796 posts)elleng
(130,131 posts)likely including negatives re: Jack Trammell. , Trammell, on the other hand, has been out and about! https://www.facebook.com/trammell4va
Kennah
(14,115 posts)NV Whino
(20,886 posts)Going, "Oh shit! Oh shit! Oh shit!"
elias49
(4,259 posts)He might be smarter than some, but he's an academic...he's not a politician. I think he's gonna have trouble if they let him out of his cage. Esp having beaten Cantor...savvy news people are gonna want to know: "Who the fuck ARE you?"
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)and they aren't going to let Brat see the light of day until he's ready for prime time with a well-crafted, concrete message...
They had to hide him...Brat's interviews were absolutely frightening, and being unfiltered in the news cycle for another week would have sunk him for certain...