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RandallFan
06-16-2014, 07:22 PM
This is why Kevin McCarthy should not be leader. Id take Pete King over McCarthy. But I think in NY they have their own scam to keep incumbents free from a GOP primary. They just have the name appear multiple times on a smaller party's ticket.


Eric Cantor will no longer represent Virginia’s 7th Congressional District. In what is arguably the biggest primary defeat since Republicans took control of the U.S. House in 2010, the chamber’s majority leader was ousted by primary opponent Dave Brat.


Who is Dave Brat? Brat is a 49-year-old economics professor at the Randolph-Macon College in Ashland, Virginia. A candidate who identified himself as a principled candidate with no label, he campaigned on the promise to address the expanding national deficit and attacked Eric Cantor for supporting “amnesty” for unlawful immigrants.


This raises the question if some kind of nonpartisan election reform could have saved Eric Cantor’s political career. Under a nonpartisan open primary, Cantor would have been able to appeal to Democrats and voters not affiliated with either major party who want to see some form of comprehensive immigration reform or congressional leadership that actually tries to govern responsibly.

His message would have been simple: “If my opponent wins, immigration reform is dead.”


http://ivn.us/2014/06/11/nonpartisan-open-primary-saved-eric-cantor/

He just needs enough RINOs and liberals to get him to secure second place like Kashkari. Except McCarthy has a lot of advantages over Kashkari and is an incumbent.