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FBaggins

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3. Unlikely
Thu Jun 12, 2014, 10:37 AM
Jun 2014

He didn't hurt... I'm sure that there were a number of democrats who helped him (he reportedly even asked supporters to bring independents and democrats to the polls... but neither was likely to make the difference.

1 - It was a pretty large margin. Even with a low turnout it would be hard to believe that this kind of game would have larger than a 2-3% impact

2 - Cantor received fewer votes than two years ago... even though he spent more to get people to show up. This makes clear that he had a problem with core republicans.

3 - If Cooter'sCall (tm) had much of an impact, you would expect Cantor to do worst in the most Democratic precincts in the district... instead the results were just the opposite

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