Posted on 06/23/2014 5:52:37 PM PDT by kingattax
House Majority Leader-elect Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) blamed crossover votes by Democrats for Eric Cantor’s (R-VA) surprise primary defeat at the hands of David Brat in an interview on Sean Hannity’s radio show on Monday. He stated that was surprised by Cantor’s defeat, and did say that “all politics are local” when asked why he thought Cantor lost.
McCarthy added that he had “read five different analyses” and one theory he came across was “Democrats voted 30 percent in [that race].”
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I suspect that there are THOUSANDS of Republicans that NEVER had a problem with crossover voting in an Open Primary, particularly when no effort was made to get the crossovers to come out. So why was Cantor THE FIRST to be lose his seat because of this?
I’d love to see someone ask that jackass that question.
(by the way, open primaries are IDIOTIC, but it did not affect this race, even at the margins)
That is their excuse. They blame dems for Santorum’s showing against Romney. That was crap too.
Yes, there was an analysis of that theory, and the analysis says that theory was bunk.
Actually, the “democrat” theory is laughingly ridiculous — Cantor got like 8000 less votes than in 2012.
So the argument is that Cantor couldn’t get his own voters to come out to vote, but somehow the democrats were able to talk over 15,000 democrats to vote in someone else’s primary for people they didn’t care about.
I hope McD prevails, but I am wary, knowing how MS people like incumbency and projects coming to the state.
it's been said that is his best quality
Either way, the GOP shouldn’t let rats vote in their primaries.
What could possibly go wrong???
Great job, GOP-establishment. Looks like you’ve foisted another looser on us.
Thud!! Ha, I like it!!!
I gave my Rep an earful...on hearing he voted for McCarthy.
For the EVIL TEA PARTY no less!
Ass?
He did say that he wanted to work from the bottom up.
“Stupid is as Stupid does.”
Can’t wait to read what McCarthy has to say when Brat
wins the general election. Watch this space.
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