{"id":42504,"date":"2014-06-11T10:45:20","date_gmt":"2014-06-11T16:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/06\/11\/he-won-because-he-isnt-eric-cantor.html"},"modified":"2014-06-11T23:11:29","modified_gmt":"2014-06-12T05:11:29","slug":"he-won-because-he-isnt-eric-cantor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/06\/11\/he-won-because-he-isnt-eric-cantor.html","title":{"rendered":"He won because he isn't Eric Cantor"},"content":{"rendered":"
That's the main explanation I take from all of this. Dave Brat, who beat Cantor in the GOP primary in Virginia, doesn't seem to have any well-thought-out positions, though I know if I<\/i> were running for the position of US Representative I'd have done the homework on pretty much everything that's on the front page of the paper for the last month or two.<\/p>\n

And if I were an economics professor, I suspect I'd have some sort of policy about the minimum wage. I mean, that's pretty darned basic.<\/p>\n

So as far as I can see, he wasn't elected for himself, but because he wasn't associated with the GOP Leadership. Which is illustrative of the problems with the blanket "throw the bums out" philosophy of elections: you really want to have some idea about what bums you're throwing in.<\/i><\/p>\n

Reshared post from +Les Jenkins<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Talk about \u00a0a train wreck about to happen. This should be interesting to watch.\ufeff<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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The Man Who Just Beat Eric Cantor Won\u2019t Answer Basic Policy Questions<\/a>
\n “I thought we were just going to chat today about the celebratory aspects,” he said. \n <\/p>\n

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That's the main explanation I take from all of this. Dave Brat, who beat Cantor in the GOP primary in Virginia, doesn't seem to have any well-thought-out positions, though I know if I were running for the position of US Representative I'd have done the homework on pretty much everything that's on the front page … Continue reading “He won because he isn't Eric Cantor”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,353],"tags":[586],"class_list":["post-42504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-elections-2014","tag-pluspost"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":42500,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/06\/10\/for-all-of-you-wishfully-thinking-the-tea-party-is-dead.html","url_meta":{"origin":42504,"position":0},"title":"For all of you (wishfully) thinking\u00a0the Tea Party is dead","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 10-Jun-14 6:34pm","format":false,"excerpt":"That's ... pretty staggering. 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