Eric Cantor’s Pollster Tries to Explain Why His Survey Showed Cantor Up 34 Points

Eric Cantor’s pollster whiffed.

Less than a week before voters dumped the House majority leader, an internal poll for Cantor’s campaign, trumpeted to the Washington Post, showed Cantor cruising to a 34-point victory in his primary. Instead, Cantor got crushed, losing by 10 percentage points.

How did Cantor’s pollster, veteran Republican survey-taker John McLaughlin, get the historic race so terribly wrong? CONT.

Shane Goldmacher, National Journal

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