Whatever are you talking about?
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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Wonder how long before government monkeys start standing outside of polling places, making only approved voters get in.
Whatever are you talking about?
Why in two years?
Heh, I’m talking about where they get to the point they can flat out beat up on someone and the police just look the other way. At least in that case, there was an attempt to arrest the punk.
Later, not on election day.
This is the same thing that happened to the white evangelicals, who the Democrats owned until 1980, when they just to the GOP to vote for Reagan. After that they became the Religious Right, not religious fanatics, racial bigots and all around haters.
The Democrats are commies, to stay a commie you had to be able to switch policies on a dime. One day Hitler was evil incarnate and the next he was the glorious partner to Stalin in the Hitler-Stalin Pact, which lasted from August 1939 to June of 1941, almost 2 years.
In otherwords... taxpayers.
Because I’m done.
I have things I want to do and each operation has taken me out for a month on the last one and nearly 9 the first time.
If I did anything, I would end up in bed from the excruciating pain and I never knew from one day to the next what the thing would be but, the 1st operation had me in bed or on the couch most of time from the pain alone.
I wanted to jump out of an airplane, jump over a certain cliff and summit Denali or Mt. Ranier last year, in addition to my regular sports of hiking, surfing, snowboarding, mountain biking, etc.
Didn’t do any of that. Couldn’t and won’t hike without my full back or at least my three day pack. But, putting 40-70 pounds on my shoulders is unbearable.
So, I’ve some ideas for business and some other things I can do and in two years I’ll pay for the operation, knowing what I know now and will be prepared for that process.
Oh! The PT became my part time job as well and I don’t give a flip about going there everyday, which I did for two years, 5 days a week.
But, I’m done for now.
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