I believe that Virginia is an open party primary voting state. Our neighbor's son an daughter in law live in Virginia. They are registered dems and were told to 'get out the vote' and vote against Cantor. They said the dems were out in droves. They said that the dems wanted a weaker contender so their dem candidate would have more of a fighting chance.
Now this is what they told us.....who knows? We weren't there.
But open primary voting can be harmful for both parties. imho
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
I believe that Virginia is an open party primary voting state. Our neighbor's son an daughter in law live in Virginia. They are registered dems and were told to 'get out the vote' and vote against Cantor. They said the dems were out in droves. They said that the dems wanted a weaker contender so their dem candidate would have more of a fighting chance.
Now this is what they told us.....who knows? We weren't there.
But open primary voting can be harmful for both parties. imho
YUP! The TeaBaggers were selling the same story. If you hate Cantor, cross party lines and vote in the Republican Primary against him.
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
"Perhaps the single most important fact about American politics is this: the people who participate are more ideological and more partisan, as well as angrier and more fearful, than those who don't."
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
YUP! The TeaBaggers were selling the same story. If you hate Cantor, cross party lines and vote in the Republican Primary against him.
I'm not 'selling' this box cause I don't have a horse in this race.....was just sayin'.
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
Who Is TeaBagger David Bradt??? (Just another TeaBagger, that's all.)
David Brat, the Libertarian Who Beat Eric Cantor, Doesn't Believe in the "Common" Good Brat has called for slashing Social Security, Medicare, and education spending and says "rich" nations don't have to fear climate change.
what is the common good when in the hands of few to decide WHAT that is......the common good as it is so fluffy said is what someone else decides you are 'worthy' of.......
...you are a product of your environment, your environment is a product of your priorities, your priorities are a product of you......
The replacement of morality and conscience with law produces a deadly paradox.
STOP BEING GOOD DEMOCRATS---STOP BEING GOOD REPUBLICANS--START BEING GOOD AMERICANS
Cantor didn't spend $5 million running against his primary opponent. Most of the money was spent running for Boehner's job. (spurce KungFuQuip.Com
Over the past two years, Cantor spent $5 million, this is true. It’s not entirely clear what any of it had to do with his campaign, however. Here, for example, are the top 10 things he paid for:
f his top 10 expenses, what do you notice missing? How about Advertising? Direct Mail? Phone banks? But note the massive credit card expenses and bill for airfare. Cantor’s was a campaign on the move, but I’m guessing it moved a lot of places that weren’t in his district. Printing and Mailing Services accounted for only about $100,000 out of the $5 million he spent – roughly on par with what he spent for his website. His catering bills dwarf the amount he actually spent trying to win his seat. So unless he bought everyone in Virginia lunch, the idea that the upstart Brat spent considerably less than Cantor on the campaign is ridiculous. Granted, his spending through yesterday isn’t fully disclosed yet. It is possible his post-election report will include larger expenses for things like GOTV that have been spent since May 21 – the date of his last filing. However, based on news reports that Cantor’s pollster showed him 34 points ahead as of May 28, Occam’s Razor would suggest this was a campaign that did not take it’s opposition seriously. They did none of the things campaigns must do to win, while spending ridiculous amounts working on the one campaign they did care about – the race to replace John Boehner. When you spend next to nothing on your own race, and a huge amount on flying around the country on behalf of other candidates, you expect that to pay dividends. In this case, the grumblings about Boehner’s leadership and a coming challenge to the throne are well known. Cantor would be the apparent successor in a coup against our orange-toned Oompa-leader. From my read, based on 22 years in politics, is Cantor pushed to hard for the brass ring and not hard enough to keep his day job.
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"For this is what America is all about. It is the uncrossed desert and the unclimbed ridge. It is the star that is not reached and the harvest that is sleeping in the unplowed ground." Lyndon Baines Johnson
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