Cantor Can’t, Mailing It In Dept. 0
Vivian Paige, pre-eminent local politics blogger, thinks that the punditocracy and the blogosphere are missing the reason that Eric Cantor lost his primary. She writes in my local rag that it was not immigration nor ideological impurity (though the effects that Thoreau predicts may well come to pass because, as someone once said, “reality is what people think”), but rather something much simpler: Cantor’s own inept politicking.
A nugget:
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There are a few complaints of poor constituent services, but the biggest complaint was that Cantor was never around. This was especially the case in some areas that were added to the district after the 2011 redistricting. While the underfunded Brat put in shoe leather, Cantor mailed it in, running his campaign mostly from the Nation’s Capitol, using his fundraising advantage to run ads and send mail.
Read the rest. It is worth your while.
