talk to the local press, like no one in this room is too good for doing that. no, candidates are supplicants. you are asking to people put their trust in you and to give you their vote. you have to actually ask them to do that, nicely. i think the part of all of this, in all of the incredibly valid and substantiative reasons why he lost last night, that have been discussed today, he s just hilariously unpleasant. i mean, his constituents didn t like him, the press didn t like him, his colleagues really didn t like him, the people he reported do certainly didn t like him. there was just something about this guy, that he was not willing to ingratiate himself to anybody. so, we shouldn t quite be surprised that they were ready to look elsewhere. it s funny, i don t know eric cantor personally, so i can t render about his unlikability, but it is pursue that unlikable, prickly people seem to do better in politics than one would suspect. we ll call it the mitch
see something similar in the republican consulting class. i do already hear it among tea party activists and conservatives. they rail against the broken consulting class. but, it s actually true. you look at these pollsters, it s not just this group. the romney campaign used a number of pollsters throughout the country. and i remember, as a reporter, covering that campaign, especially in the last weeks, they would break out these spreadsheets and these sophisticated models, and you know, on background, let me show you this poll. and really, it wasn t bs. they believed they were going to win. and they were just so off. and in the cuccinelli race in virginia, you also had this problem, where they thought they were way further behind than they actually were. the gop has got to fix its polling problem. and the polling seems like polling seems like a relatively easy thing to fix, although it s
mcintosh with emily s list. lizza had this interesting piece where he talked about the populist campaign that brat ran, in which he talked about the fact that big business and big government were in with each other. he talked about wall street and talked about the fact that cantor wasn t on the side of the little guy. and i think there s a lot of there s a lot of populist anger against congress and eric cantor kind of represented the worst of it. and i spoke to a couple of local reporters from that district today. and they both had stories, along the lines of, cantor when he would rarely visit the district, would come in with an suv and a bunch of bodyguards, and literally shove people out of the way. and so i think that kind of expanded upon that narrative. i think that s why that narrative stuck to a guy like cantor, because he seems to have been sort of personally the epitome of that s right. and there s something concrete
david brat wasn t really even on the radar screen of national tea party groups, in part because he skipped a pair of meetings with conservative leaders last month. it seems that brat, college professor, had to deal with final exams instead. cantor s loss has cast the house republican caucus into chaos. at an emergency house gop meeting this afternoon, speaker john boehner reportedly shed tears as cantor spoke to his colleagues. and cantor, who is jewish, in fact, the only jewish member of the house caucus, reported a holocaust survivor and said, suffering is part of life, misery is a choice. cantor then stepped before the creamers to announce he would stepping down as majority leader. now, while i intend to serve out my term as a member of congress in the seventh district of virginia, effective july 31st, i will be stepping down as majority leader. cantor says he is backing house majority whip, kevin mccarthy, a fellow young gun, as they like to call themselves, as his successor. b
small dollar donors and campaigns and producing nothing of value. and i wonder if you re going to see something similar in the republican consulting class. i do already hear it among tea party activists and conservatives. they rail against the broken consulting class. but, it s actually true. you look at these pollsters, it s not just this group. the romney campaign used a number of pollsters throughout the country. and i remember, as a reporter, covering that campaign, especially in the last weeks, they would break out these spreadsheets and these sophisticated models, and you know, on background, let me show you this poll. and really, it wasn t bs. they believed they were going to win. and they were just so off. and in the cuccinelli race in virginia, you also had this problem, where they thought they were way further behind than they actually were. the gop has got to fix its polling problem. and the polling seems like polling seems like a relatively easy thing to fix, alth