If you live in the U.S., you can't have missed reading about the election primary that took place in my congressional district on Tuesday. Here is a quick summation of the race:
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. For the first time in history, the House majority leader has lost in a primary. Nobody saw it coming.
That's not actually true. If the pollsters had gotten honest answers from the people they questioned, they would have less surprised. For whatever reason the voters felt Cantor had forgotten who had elected him.
It will be very interesting to see the race as it plays out in the weeks leading up to November's election. Two professors from the same small college in Ashland, Virginia, are representing the two political parties, each with little name recognition, no experience and not much money. It should be an interesting campaign!
I have been watching this. I just hope for a time when the gov't knew it was beholden to US, not vice versa. We need to get people up there who will not only say it when campaigning, but live it once elected. I hope we will get more of that. :0)
@allie912 Yes. it does. Scott Brown went there I think it was for Mass. after a surprise win, but don't think he really did much different. I think they get " blackmail" info on them, and then threaten them to just "fit in" and behave. Or they will talk.
