The New Yorker: Cantor Loses, and Washington Goes Ape

http:/renomination./www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/johncassidy/2014/06/eric-cantor-loses-to-david-brat.html

---snip---

Shortly after eight on Tuesday night, Twitter went a little nuts, and so, presumably, did Eric Cantor, the second-ranking Republican in the House of Representatives. The Associated Press, CNN, and other news organizations had just called the Republican primary race in Virginia’s Seventh District for David Brat, a hitherto little-known economics professor who is associated with the Tea Party wing of the G.O.P. Cantor had become the first House Majority Leader to lose a primary renomination.

---snip---