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Cantor's Loss a Bad Omen for Moderates — WASHINGTON — The House Republican leadership, so solid in its opposition to President Obama, was torn apart Tuesday by the defeat of its most influential conservative voice, Representative Eric Cantor, the House majority leader …
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David Brat's Writings: Hitler's Rise ‘Could All Happen Again’ — David Brat, the Virginia Republican who shocked House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R., Va.) Tuesday, wrote in 2011 that Hitler's rise “could all happen again, quite easily.” — Mr. Brat's remarks, in a 2011 issue of Interpretation …
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Eric Cantor's Pollster Tries to Explain Why His Survey Showed Cantor Up 34 Points — This was not the first time Cantor pollster John McLaughlin has been wrong. — House Majority Leader Eric Cantor's own polling showed him with a wide lead before he lost his primary. (Liz Lynch)
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11 political lessons from Eric Cantor's loss — Eric Cantor's shocking defeat at the hands of David Brat is that rarest of things in American politics: a genuine earthquake. And like with real earthquakes, the damage will be much greater because so few were prepared. A few provisional thoughts:
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Why Eric Cantor Lost — The death of the tea party has been greatly exaggerated. House Majority Leader Eric Cantor lost his primary tonight to David Brat, a man who was significantly outspent. Cantor spent $5 million to Brat's $122,000.00. — The media will play up Cantor's loss by claiming it was about immigration.

Chaos erupts at Cantor's election night headquarters after his departure — RICHMOND — As if the political drama were not powerful enough, chaos erupted at election night headquarters shortly after House Majority Leader Eric Cantor conceded his stunning defeat to tea party-backed conservative David Brat.
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Eric Cantor to step down as majority leader at end of July — House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) plans to step down from his leadership post by the end of July, setting off a weeks-long scramble for the chamber's number two job, according to three Republicans familiar with his plans.
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Eric Cantor's Shocking, Richly Deserved Primary Defeat — In Republican country, Tea Party always finds you. — Since Republicans won control of the House in the 2010 elections, the political future of Eric Cantor has been the subject of ceaseless speculation.
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About Dave — Dave Brat presents a major problem for liberals who try to continue increased government spending by discrediting conservatives and claiming the budget is “too complicated” for conservatives to understand. — For years in Virginia, everyone from the media to Governors have come …
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Poll: Immigration didn't doom Eric Cantor — Opponents of immigration reform seized on House Majority Leader Eric Cantor's shocking primary defeat Tuesday night as a clear referendum against a sweeping overhaul - particularly one that includes so-called “amnesty” for undocumented immigrants.

Defeated Cantor says he won't try a write-in campaign — Republican House Majority Leader Eric Cantor told key aides and trusted former staffers on Wednesday that he will not try his luck with a write-in campaign after his shocking GOP primary defeat at the hands of largely unknown tea party-backed economics professor Dave Brat.
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Eric Cantor to step down as majority leader — Virginia Rep. Eric Cantor will step down as majority leader, according to several Republicans sources, ending a meteoric rise through Republican leadership ranks. — Several GOP sources who have heard from Cantor and his allies say his resignation will be effective July 31.
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Eric Cantor to Step Down as Majority Leader — WASHINGTON — Representative Eric Cantor of Virginia, the No. 2 House Republican, will resign as majority leader within weeks, according to leadership aides, setting off a scramble to remake the party's upper ranks.
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House Republicans up late weighing strategy in wake of Cantor's shocking defeat — House Speaker John Boehner, left, (R-Ohio), stands with House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) during a news conference at the Capitol June 10, 2014 in Washington. Boehner and Cantor spoke to the media …
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Cantor Loses, and Washington Goes Ape
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Did Democratic votes doom Eric Cantor?
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Why Cantor's loss is especially bad news for big business
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Notes on Cantormageddon — You knew Majority Leader Eric Cantor …
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Eric Cantor succumbs to tea party challenger Tuesday
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The guy who beat Eric Cantor penned a scathing, seemingly unpublished book about the economics profession
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Dave Brat and the Triumph of Rightwing Populism
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Brat didn't go to Princeton Univ.
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Rand Paul on Immigration Reform: 'Amnesty Is a Word That's Trapped Us'
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For Barack Obama, Eric Cantor loss comes with a price
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David Brat to Bernanke: Don't Underestimate the Value of Protestants
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Who Is David Brat? Meet the Economics Professor Who Defeated Eric Cantor

How did the leader of the GOP opposition become a Tea Party trophy?
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David Brat, the Libertarian Who Beat Eric Cantor, Doesn't Believe in the “Common” Good
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Dave Brat, Economics Professor: 'I Don't Have A Well-Crafted Response' On Minimum Wage
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With Eric Cantor Defeat, Congressional Republicans Lose Only Non-Christian
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How Eric Cantor Sabotaged Himself
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Militants overrun two Iraqi cities — (CNN) — A day after taking over Mosul, Iraq's second-largest city, militants gained nearly complete control of the northern city of Tikrit, witnesses in the city and police officials in neighboring Samarra told CNN. — Heavy fighting erupted inside Tikrit …
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Iraq crisis: Islamists force 500,000 to flee Mosul
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Why Mosul's fall is a signature moment in Iraq (+video)
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Obama is a prisoner of groupthink — Of the many strange moments in the Bowe Bergdahl saga, the most worrisome was Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel's statement about the prisoner exchange. — “The president feels very strongly about this. I feel very strongly about it,” …
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Obama, not Hagel, responsible for Bergdahl, says White House
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Oklahoma GOP Candidate OK With Stoning Gay People To Death — A Republican candidate for the Oklahoma state House who boasts that he's looking forward to “applying Biblical principles to Oklahoma law” is okay with gay people being stoned to death — even if he won't legislate the practice himself.
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Oklahoma political candidate expresses extreme views on homosexuality
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Congressmen charge VA told local VA hospital to stymie their search for information — Two Pennsylvania congressmen, one Democrat and one Republican, charge that officials within the national Department of Veterans Affairs tried to stall, if not block, their attempts to find out about hundreds …
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