that immigration played in the cantor loss, we can t dismiss it entirely. it was what people were screaming about in those last two weeks. so i think a guy who calls crossing the border for your family or with your family an act of love he s going to have a hard time. a guy who went to work for lehman brotherbrothers, he migha hard time and the common core stuff has become a culture war issues but there are people on the left who are not fond of common core either. but he really does represent that entire array of interests that cantor did, too, and so i did think that night that it was i look at jeb bush and i can t see what is the issue where the base of the party and there s the question of the issues and also just the question of the style that he represents. where s the connection with where the base of the party is right now? of course, it will be hard and i think it s hard to quantify the base of the party. we do have to remember the voters who show up in 2014 for the
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primary and asked people who voted for david brat the guy who beat cantor asked them what their main reason for doing so was. only 22% of them said immigration. it s only about one in five voters who voted against cantor saying that immigration was what motivated them. the rest, the other four out of five anti-cantor voters pointed to other reasons like cantor was, quote, too focused on national politics instead of local needs and that he d, quote, lost touch with voters. and on the day on the same day of that election in a poll conducted by pp a clear majority of voters in cantor s district said they not only supported immigration reform but also it s an important priority to be addressed this year. and also this at the same exact moment that cantor was going down on tuesday night one of the most vocal and visible republican supporters of a pathway to citizenship for the undocumented was winning a republican primary in the very conservative, very southern state of south carolina. so
are mobilized because it s the second year of an obama presidency and very much the tea party sentiment. 2016 it moderates itself in a little bit. you think the primaries get much more moderate than this base? maybe. not necessarily much more moderate. a little. it starts to moderate. because people like john mccain and mitt romney are able to survive. there s the romney path. let s break this down because a lot of people making the comparison on election night what happened to, you know, senator graham in south carolina, how did he win given his position on immigration and cantor ostensibly this was an issue. there s an issue between running statewide and running in a congressional district, so when you re looking at the voter makeup, the primary makeup in a statewide republican primary versus a congressional republican primary, the dynamics are very, very different. you do have more moderating voices that come out in the statewide primaries because it s from parts of the
with the power and speed to do real work. introducing surface pro 3. the tablet that can replace your laptop. based on immigration reform. the big issue was immigration. immigration reform. immigration reform. immigration reform. the immigration issue. really shows how white hot the immigration issue is. when they know that amnesty is on the table, amnesty loses big. that has been the constant refrain that house majority leader eric cantor lost tuesday because he wasn t tough enough on immigration reform that s what inspired republicans in his district to choose someone else as their nominee for another two years. but here s the thing. it was basically no credible polling done on eric cantor s race before that primary on tuesday. there has been some since then and here s what a conservative group found when they went into the field this week after the