The shock waves from the stunning defeat of House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) reverberated quickly across the Republican Party Tuesday night, as tea party and establishment strategists tried to assess the possible impact on upcoming primaries and on the overall state of the GOP. The results from Virginia emboldened […] Read more »
Cantor’s Loss a Bad Omen for Moderates
The House Republican leadership, so solid in its opposition to President Obama, was torn apart Tuesday by the defeat of its most influential conservative voice, Representative Eric Cantor, the House majority leader, whose demise will reverberate all the way to the speaker’s chair, pull the top echelons of the House […] Read more »
VA-07: In Shocker, Cantor Loses Primary
In one of the biggest House primary earthquakes of all time, GOP House Majority Leader Rep. Eric Cantor lost renomination tonight to Randolph Macon College economics professor Dave Brat, 55 percent to 45 percent. … Cantor’s leadership position, unwillingness to prolong last October’s government shutdown, far-fetched attacks on Brat, and […] Read more »
The Eric Cantor Upset: What Happened?
In a shocker, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor has lost the Republican primary in Virginia’s 7th Congressional District to a relatively unknown college professor, David Brat. Brat spent little money in the race; Cantor spent over a million dollars. The political media will spend days trying to figure out what […] Read more »
Obama’s ultimate indignity: Bush seen as more competent
… More and more Americans now agree with Democrats on the issues. … The Gallup poll reports that, ideologically, Americans are moving to the left on both social and economic issues. … If public opinion trends favor Democrats, why are they facing a setback in this year’s midterm elections? Because […] Read more »
Disapproval of Obama Doesn’t Mean Long-Term Trouble for Democrats
The Democratic coalition is thought to have an advantage in national elections, but President Obama’s approval ratings have sagged into the low-to-mid 40s. … Mr. Obama’s opposition has been extremely unified. That makes it difficult for Mr. Obama to earn overall approval ratings at or above 50 percent. So Mr. […] Read more »