As to the significance, I think that this is all about, as TBogg so eloquently, “All things considered, Eric Cantor probably lost because he\u2019s a dick<\/a>.”<\/p>\n On a slightly more serious note, Cantor did not take his constituents seriously.<\/p>\n To paraphrase Thomas P. “Tip” O’Neill story goes, Cantor never asked for their votes.<\/p>\n The Beltway consensus is that it was all about immigration, but as TBogg, and many others noted, immigration reform was supported by nearly 4 to 1 in the district, and that same night, Lindsay Graham not only won his<\/b> primary, but did so in a large field with enough of a margin to avoid a runoff<\/a>.<\/p>\n Looking at the ad, where he’s hanging with Mark Zuckerberg, I feel compelled to invoke Mr. Subliminal.<\/p>\n You have an ad with the picture Cantor a guy with a Jewish name who looks stereotypically Jewish, and accuses him of giving their jobs to foreigners, and I wonder if this is not a sly reference to his religion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" First, the very serious people inside the Beltway are freaking for a number of reasons: The results sh%$ on their “tea party is dead, and the Republican adults are back” meme. David Cantor was “people like them”, in that he was a soulless apparatchik climber. Freaking out is what they do. As to the significance, …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1000,1053,978,1021,979],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections","category-immigration","category-politics","category-religion","category-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186023"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186023\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![](\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/LrKWTVe.png\")
<\/a>For what it’s worth, I don’t think that Cantor being Jewish had much to do with his loss, with a margin over 11% in a district that he had dominated before, but I do think that some of the advertising did seem to invoke this<\/a> (though note that in the article, Salon<\/i> solipsistically posits that it was anti-Silicon Valley sentiment).<\/p>\n