Voter stupidity.
Cantor lost, fair and square.
Cantor is one of the US Chamber of Commerce’s star Amnesty Whores that has become a lame, (but still very dangerous), duck, and there are many, Many more Amnesty Whores to go.
It is time, - - - - time for a change.
Look at the money!!! The Tea party is trying to win on the cheap. Typically, the RINO spends millions and the TP candidate has a few tens of thousands. Only in a few special circumstances where the RINO is particularly clumsy can that differential be overcome. Politics takes money; gobs and gobs of it. We’re just not putting forth the financial effort to get the job done.
Cantor’s been in a short while.
Graham’s been in since he claimed the Clinton impeachment a success, which it was not.
experience and backing, seeing what was coming ahead made Graham batten down the hatches.
Cochran too, though he is old, which makes his defeat significant in a different way.
Graham and McConnell will either shut up about their agenda or get elbowed out of the way, off committees, perhaps.
They are old enough to know where their true power comes from in the end - voters.
Graham had six weak opponents.
If he didn’t have anything to do with that, he could have.
Oh. Run a whole bunch of ‘conservative’ candidates. That’ll do it by watering down the votes.
The definition of insanity: doing the same thing over against and expecting a different result.
Multiple conservatives didn’t work in 2008 or 2012 at the presidental primaries level.
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Many of us were shaking our heads when McCain won another term a few years ago.
Incumbency, at the Senate level, is difficult to defeat.
Why did the challengers lose? Too many for one thing. There were 5 or 6, and that led to too many advertisements, too many nuanced positions, too many similarities to discern a difference from the incumbent.
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We will see similar in the 2016 GOP primaries, if the nearly two-dozen wannabes jump in.
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Many of us would NOT be surprised to find out that Graham’s team and/or supporters may have ‘hired’ some of the contenders to water down the vote numbers.
Just a question outta curiosity.....can Bright run as a write in?? It’s been suggested by Fox News idiots that Cantor should run as such... Can it be done in SC?
The problem isn’t with Graham’s warchest or open primaries or weak opponents. The problem is with low-information Republicans who pulled the lever for a creep like Graham despite his record. They are going to be the death of this country.
("I'm at a different stage of my life than he is," Graham said when I asked him about Cochran, adding, "I've been planning for a hard contest for two years.") He raised $13 million and seeded a formidable campaign operation, with more than 5,000 precinct captains and six field offices around the state. Through a combination of intimidation and enticement—as when he helped a conservative congressman, Mick Mulvaney, get a seat on the House Financial Services Committee—he kept the most prominent potential opponents out of the race. His six challengers include a state senator and five first-time candidates; combined, they have raised about $2 million.
That's how he won though I think his margin was a little underwhelming considering two years of prep.