That was a great video. I'm going to bookmark it to keep in my sharing scrapbook if you will. I looked up the Cantor race as I am not familiar with the particulars and saw that he was beaten by a tea party crazy. But there is a takeaway. A lot of this sounds very familiar.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/11/us/politics/eric-cantor-loses-gop-primary.html?_r=0
A huge difference in campaign funds: Cantor $2Million vs Brat $200,000
Brat targeted the base with anti-immigration being his banner. Being racist is essential to being a tea party Republican, but the takeaway is that the base is important to winning a primary.
He ran against establishment Washington:
In victory, Mr. Brat said that his candidacy had resonated with voters who believed that politics had been dumbed down by partisan infighting.
“The American people want to pay attention to serious ideas again,” Mr. Brat said, speaking on Fox News. “Our founding was built by people who were political philosophers, and we need to get back to that, away from this kind of cheap political rhetoric of right and left.”
MONEY was not the deciding factor in the race:
Republicans were so sure that Mr. Cantor would win that most party leaders had been watching for how broad his victory would be.
It shows that a politician who fires up the base CAN win. People on left and right are sick to death of the establishment. And Cenk is right, breaking up the banks, while not currently a political possibility, is what many Americans would favor. It only highlights how little people are actually represented in this country and could be a strong plank in his political campaign. People are still starving for change!
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