What were the polls prognosticating?

Reportedly, Cantor's internal polling showed him up a week or two ago by over 30 points.

So he was worried, clearly.

Sorry about the sources, but it's RW sites that would have run these polls:

... I have been living for the day he fell to defeat.

Fox News is desperately trying to spin this as conservative angst over Eric Cantor being for immigration reform so GOP TV is trying to send a message to the GOP to remain hardline on immigration. Maybe that's part of why the right-wingers were agitated to go to the polls. However, I know a fair number of far-right Tea Party types and nobody has mentioned this to me.

Cantor's internal polling had him at 62%. Certainly, my Va 7th is gerrymandered to be a very safe GOP district and 60-70% is typically what Cantor could count on in elections. Democrats have written this district off my entire life which is understandable. I don't know much about Trammell who's running as a Democrat here (we're lucky someone even bothered running in such a safe district) but I'm sure he's weak.

What people have to keep in mind is Virginia has an open primary system which the GOP has always hated and fretted over. This sort of unexpected upset is why. I plan to vote Democratic in November but in this primary I voted Tea Party for the 1st time because an open primary where voter turnout is low and mainstream GOP voter complacency is high (like Cantor they expected an easy win) is the only way to unseat an entrenched Republican like Eric Cantor. You'll never beat a mainstream Republican like Eric Cantor in a general election. Some unknown Tea Party crackpot like Brat? There's a shot!

Dave Brat is an inarticulate run-of-the-mill Tea Party sloganeer. It's the Democrat's best chance to score a big win and net a seat in the House.

Keep in mind the immigration reform issue Fox News is using to explain away a Cantor loss overlooks the fact that Brat's hardline Tea Party views don't poll well here. In a general election reform is a winner for Democrats.

Democrats should not write off this district!

FB is awash with Progressives saying they crossed lines to do this. If people started supporting Trammel, he might pull this off. Brat sounded like an idiot on MSNBC when asked about minimum wage. And he's an economist.

Teaparty central? It's becoming as nutso as Florida. (No bashing -- I live in Florida.)

Brat won with 35,000 votes. As contrast, Fairfax Co. in NOVA, has more than 1 million population.
Plenty of gun nuts etc. in parts of Va, but Dem Gov, 2 Dem Senators is very different from Fl.

Cubans I know enjoy the tea party with café con leche.

... sorta like "Corruption and Integrity".

I love it when people play dishonest word games, and lament how many are suckered by them.

Yes, I'm sure it will be about how the two rarely if ever meet.

better one: http://bigstory.ap.org/article/house-majority-leader-cantor-defeated-primary

Dunno how they did it but ya gotta give Team Dem credit for some awesome election work here.

is what I'm getting at. Call it a hunch.


p.s. there's aso this from GD: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/06/ben-cooter-jones_n_5463196.html

Sounds like the strategy worked!

Glad you're here! Hey, it's a very delicious night, even if we only get this one all year. This kinda makes up for losing Tom Daschle's seat when he was Senate Majority Leader. Boy did they crow about that one. Don't know if we can pick that seat up, but maybe now, more Virginia Dems will feel motivated to move in for the kill? One can certainly hope so!

The power of the pen.


Cher

where the Republicans got a Democrat con nominated in a primary just so they could win in November. whoops... and his smug laughter at everything serious is gone. oh thank God

reportedly, Dems were voting against Cantor.

thank God!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Cantor, now you can slither back under a rock.

That is why, with attribution to Weird Al, yesterday was Weasel Stomping Day.

shock!

More surprises like this please!

I liked him. He has an account here and did a AMA thing as I recall.

plenty of time to introduce a normal person v. a bagger. I hope! I've read Dems voted for the bagger to get rid of Cantor (open primary); hey, more power to them!

Its a pretty solid Puke district, though.

according to the article.

Lets hope the Dem in this race is a populist that can reach the people. Anyone know whose on the slate?

I have to wonder if Powell regrets not throwing his hat back into the ring.

seat I love seeing this douche go down.

Department of Economics and Business
Director, BB&T Moral Foundations of Capitalism Program

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"Moral" Foundations of Capitalism. Seriously?

I saw that, too, and I was !

When is it going to come out that his position is funded by the Koch Bro's?

Or is that $$ under the table?


Cher

No doubt! Capitalism has NO moral foundations. Period.

Is he indeed a naughty, spoilt child? Probably, if he's a teabagger.

'Moral Foundations on Capitalism'? Good grief. Why We Should All Worship Mammon?

seat but they need to get their act together and spend some money on their man.
.A Teabagger beat dumb ass Wow..We should win this seat over some radical hands down but DCCC has to get off their ass and back our candidate

Everyone here is doing the snoopy dance.

that's gonna leave a mark.

Couldn't believe my ears at first. This is awesome!! Certainly hope his seat turns blue in November, but even if that doesn't happen, the tea-bagger won't have anywhere NEAR his power.

Kind of scares me too!

From Day One of Obama’s presidency, Eric Cantor has used every dirty trick to block the Democratic agenda. There are so many big issues we could make progress on without Republicans like Eric Cantor in our way: raising the minimum wage, passing comprehensive immigration reform, student loan reform, and making millionaires and billionaires pay their fair share just to name a few.

And tonight, Cantor has been thrown out by the Tea Party base that he’s kowtowed to at every turn.

If you’re also glad that Cantor’s been shown the door, sign our card to let him know:

http://dccc.org/Bye-Bye-Eric-Cantor

Oh I'd love to see his misery. After the misery he's supported, he deserves bitter misery.

And then a tragic fall into a deep cesspool.

Unless the Dem has a decent chance, that is.

gives us more mainstream appeal. This is good news.

Plus, something about Cantor just rubs me the wrong way.

And Mr Cantor deserves all the humiliation that can be delivered him.

-- Mal

Not only will the House move further to the right, this will cause more repubs to jump ship and force their way in to our Big Tent.

Would be nice if McConnell were next. Just sayin'.

OMG!!! It's time to PARTY!

when he was a radical conservative, defeated by an even more radically conservative Republican.

And will the dems please win the general in Nov. PLEASE! So sick of the Tea-bag scum.

I am smiling, and I don't care whether it's wrong or not. CUE THE VONAGE THEME!


rocktivity

Is he really going to be gone? He'll just become a lobbyist

He'll have a job right out of the gate. No doubt it will be in the millions.

I fucking hate that. Having said that, I want one day to revel in his political demise at the hands of a fucking moron.

And I want the first Jewish Speaker to be a decent person. Cantor is no mensch.

I'm not quite sure how you feel about this -

Cantor has long been a disgusting human being that needs to have his ass removed.

Now he is fired. Now it's time to remove the rest.

YIPPEEEEEEE....now to get rid of Ted Cruz, Paul Ryan and Rand Paul.

Has anybody registered Cantor2016.com? Like just about any other clowncar republicon, his deck is clear to run for president, just like Santorum. A little Faux Nooze grifting and a lobbying firm gig while he's at it.

But what do you want to bet the Dems will totally blow it and pick a crappy candidate with no money behind them?

Skip the third way middle men.

Do we have any chance at winning the seat?

I just read that both Brat and the D nominee Jack Trammell teach at the same university.

.. .might say that Cantor was not "Conservative Enough" and use that as their excuse.

But what if the *real* reason is that people are *fed to the gills* with incumbent politicians that accomplish NOTHING but endless rhetoric?

It's a safe r district that went 57% for Romney.

It was also supposed to be a safe Cantor seat. Most people figured Cantor would be reelected automatically as often as he wanted to be. Cantor losing the primary changes everything.

Early indications are that the majority of Brat's support in the primary came from people who voted for him simply to overthrow Cantor. I know Ben Jones from Georgia was pushing Democrats hard to cross over and vote for Brat, and it seems to have worked.

If two things happen, Trammell gets a lot of $upport from the DNC and Brat does enough monumentally stupid acts, I'd say the odds of Cantor being replaced by a Democrat are decent. We know Brat is going to shoot himself in the foot with at least one 70-round drum. Given that, I think a lot of non-teabagger Republicans will sit out this election, hope the Democrat takes it, and try to pick someone a little more acceptable for 2016.

Romney looks kind of normal next to this do nothing whack job.

I think I will go back to church.

Lovely, really.

...and a time to every purpose under the heaven:

A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;

A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;

A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance

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- K&R

"freedom has won!" and "there's a movement for change!" from the Teabagger crowd are hysterical. They think this is a guaranteed win when the real election comes around.


And indeed they may win....and VA can become a useless and dreadful as NC.

A little part of me wants the Tea Party yahoo's to win just to further discredit the Republican party.

But it is a dangerous game is it not? One doesn't tempt fascism and that is indeed what the American Tea Party is.

Good news.

otherwise it will be somebody just as bad or worse.

by 2020, this generation of Tea-Bagger Darlings will be losing primaries to Confederate secessionists who promise to bring back old-school segregation.

I don't know whether to laugh or cry.

That's what happens when you ignore your district.

that prevents primary loser from running as an independent

but bad in another. If he could have run as an independent it may have split the puke vote.