Posted on 06/11/2014 4:47:52 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Eric Cantor, the House majority leader, spent his career denouncing liberals, sucking up to the Tea Party, and doing everything possible to derail President Obama’s agenda. Despite this, Cantor was ousted Tuesday by a Republican challenger in Virginia’s 7th Congressional District. Cantor’s loss follows last week’s Mississippi Republican primary, in which Sen. Thad Cochran, another conservative, was edged out by a Tea Party opponent who’s expected to dispatch Cochran in a runoff.
How do right-wingers like Cantor and Cochran lose to challengers even further on the right? The answer lies in the extremism of Republican primary voters.
On June 2, Vox Populi Polling, hired by the Daily Caller, conducted a poll of “Active GOP Primary Voters” in Cantor’s district. Three days later, Chism Strategies, a firm that usually works for Democrats, polled Mississippians who had voted in Cochran’s primary. Both surveys were automated, and Chism has released its demographic data only in unweighted form, so the results should be taken with a grain of salt. Still, they’re the best available measures of who actually voted in these primaries. The Daily Caller poll, in particular, came closer than anyone else to predicting Cantor’s defeat, so it has the most reliable portrait of his electorate.
What these two polls show is how white, old, and conservative the voters in these contests were, compared with the national electorate. Let’s start with race and ethnicity. Here’s how the Virginia and Mississippi GOP voters compare with the 2012 national presidential electorate, as reported in the national media exit poll. The national electorate is 13 percent black and 10 percent Latino. The Republican sample in Cantor’s district is 6 percent black and 1 percent Latino. The Mississippi Republican sample is 2 percent black, and everyone else is either white (96 percent) or “other” (2 percent).[continued]
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He forgot to say “less GAY”, since he;s FLAMING!!!
so now we can’t vote for who we want to.
Young people of color = good. Old white people = bad. Got it.
So, they are voters too, jack*ss!
Not you 2nd!
Only if they’re approved by our betters, like the way it was in the Soviet Union, Nazi Germany, Castro’s Cuba and so forth...
He looks a bit... like a prisoner of war....world war...II.
Meshuge Mikey
Average Aging White Guy
Really, who gives a rats behind what these Commies at Salon have to say..and if Cantor had won they would have voted for him in the November election LOL..its so funny seeing these leftist schmucks come out of the woodwork and pretend like they are all big fans of Cantor
And over 90% of Blacks voted for Obama.
Does this mean someone should be writing articles on the district demographics of elected Democrats?
Let’s start with Vermont, with Pat Leahy, Bernie Sanders and Peter Welch.....
White alone, percent, 2012 95.4%
Black or African American alone, percent, 2012 1.1%
Looks to me like the entire state of Vermont is too racist to even allow blacks to live there
where’s the barforama alert
He says that like its a bad thing...
Let's see, those voters would likely (1) bear a heavy tax burden, (2) have experience in the working world, (3) care about someone other than themselves, and (4) be better informed than the average voters. Simply shameful!!!
Uh, not quite. And that's why he was voted out.
I recall musing last evening as to just how hard the spin was going to be when it hit the turf. Here we are. Old, white, conservative - can you guess what demographic the author would happily load into the cattle cars and send to the camps?
Not enough room. I had to cut the hell out of the headline as it was. Go look.
It’s soooo predictable.
“Young people of color = good. Old white people = bad. Got it.”
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Wouldn’t “People of no color” be more appropriate than “white” people?/s
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Oh yes. The same racist ilk that went for Tim Scott 90%.
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