When we end up cheering the defeat of Cantor, let's consider the long term implication

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9. Actually...Brat's got a good chance of imploding.

His candidacy is likely to be a troubled one...the immediate leak that he didn't go to Princeton U. tells me, as someone that has done oppo, that Cantor's campaign did oppo that they didn't think they needed and never ended up using. That was almost certainly a leak from Cantor's people. The timing is suspect. So was the bravado of reporters honing in on the weakness of Brat to questions on economics...remember Dave Brat is an economist, he looks like a fool when he can't explain his position on the minimum wage without a policy paper to tell him what he thinks.

Now some of you are asking yourselves "Why would Cantor sandbag Brat?" It's not apparent but it's not spite or revenge...it's a very conservative district that Democrats most-likely cannot hold in incumbency. Cantor's best play, if he wants to retake his seat, is to send Brat to his defeat so that it gets won by a Democrat that he can easily beat in 2 years in a district where Democrats are at a severe numerical disadvantage.