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New York Times:
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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Reid J. Epstein / Wall Street Journal:
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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Shane Goldmacher / NationalJournal.com:
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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Ezra Klein / Vox:
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:
Laura Vozzella / Washington Post:
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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Michael Laris / Washington Post:
Brat didn't go to Princeton Univ. — Economics professor and political giant killer David Brat appears to have done a little biographical inflation on his campaign website. — One of his “About Dave” selling points: “that he tested his rural values against the intellectual elite while at Princeton.”
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Jonathan Chait Follow / New York Magazine:
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.
Mother Jones:
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. — When tea party challenger David Brat sent Rep. Eric Cantor …
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Washington Post:
Eric Cantor to step down as majority leader at end of July, backs McCarthy as successor — Majority Leader Eric I. Cantor (R-Va.) will step down from his leadership post at the end of July, ending a swift rise through the ranks of national politics and upending a leadership team that has run …
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Scott Clement / Washington Post:
Did Democratic votes doom Eric Cantor? — Rep. Eric Cantor's unexpected Republican primary loss Tuesday kicked off rapid speculation on how the House majority leader lost to a poorly-funded opponent in a Virginia district whose primary Cantor won with 79 percent support in 2012.
Garance Franke-Ruta / Yahoo! News:
David Brat campaign manager scrubs Facebook page after election — The campaign manager for the tea party-backed Republican who ousted House Majority Leader Eric Cantor in one of the biggest upsets in congressional history is a 23-year-old class of 2013 Haverford College graduate who posted …
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Zack Beauchamp / Vox:
The guy who beat Eric Cantor penned a scathing, seemingly unpublished book about the economics profession — House Majority Leader Eric Cantor just lost a historic primary race — to an economist. Prof. David Brat chairs the Department of Business and Economics at Randolph-Macon College, a liberal arts school in Ashland, Virginia.
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Seung Min Kim / Politico:
Poll: Immigration didn't doom Eric Cantor
Poll: Immigration didn't doom Eric Cantor
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Josh Zumbrun / Wall Street Journal:
David Brat to Bernanke: Don't Underestimate the Value of Protestants
David Brat to Bernanke: Don't Underestimate the Value of Protestants
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Yahoo! News:
Defeated Cantor says he won't try a write-in campaign
Defeated Cantor says he won't try a write-in campaign
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Evan McMorris-Santoro / BuzzFeed:
White House: Cantor's Problem Was Cantor, Not Immigration
White House: Cantor's Problem Was Cantor, Not Immigration
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Jonathan Weisman / New York Times:
Eric Cantor to Step Down as Majority Leader
Eric Cantor to Step Down as Majority Leader
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Dave Brat for Congress:
About Dave — Dave Brat presents a major problem for liberals …
About Dave — Dave Brat presents a major problem for liberals …
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Jia Lynn Yang / Washington Post:
Why Cantor's loss is especially bad news for big business
Why Cantor's loss is especially bad news for big business
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John B. Judis / The New Republic:
Dave Brat and the Triumph of Rightwing Populism
Dave Brat and the Triumph of Rightwing Populism
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Nate Cohn / New York Times:
Midterm Calculus: Did Democratic Voters Defeat Eric Cantor? Probably Not
Midterm Calculus: Did Democratic Voters Defeat Eric Cantor? Probably Not
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Robert Costa / Washington Post:
House Republicans up late weighing strategy in wake of Cantor's shocking defeat
House Republicans up late weighing strategy in wake of Cantor's shocking defeat
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John Cassidy / Rational Irrationality:
Cantor Loses, and Washington Goes Ape
Cantor Loses, and Washington Goes Ape
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Timothy B. Lee / Vox:
Eric Cantor's loss is bad news for the NSA
Eric Cantor's loss is bad news for the NSA
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Reid J. Epstein / Wall Street Journal:
Rand Paul on Immigration Reform: 'Amnesty Is a Word That's Trapped Us'
Rand Paul on Immigration Reform: 'Amnesty Is a Word That's Trapped Us'
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David Weigel / Slate:
How did the leader of the GOP opposition become a Tea Party trophy?
How did the leader of the GOP opposition become a Tea Party trophy?
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Edward-Isaac Dovere / Politico:
For Barack Obama, Eric Cantor loss comes with a price
For Barack Obama, Eric Cantor loss comes with a price
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Amanda Terkel / The Huffington Post:
Dave Brat, Economics Professor: 'I Don't Have A Well-Crafted Response' On Minimum Wage
Dave Brat, Economics Professor: 'I Don't Have A Well-Crafted Response' On Minimum Wage
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Agence France-Presse:
Jihadists ‘bulldoze berm’ dividing Iraq from Syria — Baghdad (AFP) - The jihadist Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant posted pictures online of militants bulldozing a berm dividing Iraq and Syria, symbolising its goal of uniting its forces in the two countries.
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BBC:
Iraq crisis: Islamists force 500,000 to flee Mosul
Iraq crisis: Islamists force 500,000 to flee Mosul
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Dan Murphy / Reuters:
Why Mosul's fall is a signature moment in Iraq (+video)
Why Mosul's fall is a signature moment in Iraq (+video)
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Catherine Thompson / Talking Points Memo:
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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Sarah Stewart / KFOR-TV:
Oklahoma political candidate expresses extreme views on homosexuality
Oklahoma political candidate expresses extreme views on homosexuality
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Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
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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Justin Sink / The Hill:
Obama, not Hagel, responsible for Bergdahl, says White House
Obama, not Hagel, responsible for Bergdahl, says White House
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Travis Gettys / The Raw Story:
Creationist asks ‘hard question’: ‘If evolution is true, is rape wrong?’ — Creationist Darek Isaacs said during an online broadcast posted Monday that evolutionary theory excused rape. — He said during an episode of “Creation Today” that he had studied works by Richard Dawkins …
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Elizabeth Jensen / New York Times:
Netflix Orders New Children's Show Based on ‘Magic School Bus’ — Continuing the expansion of its original content for children, Netflix has ordered a new series based on Scholastic Media's “Magic School Bus,” the long-running television series that encouraged young people to pursue science.
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