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Cantor vs。 Brat
得捐款： $5.4 million vs。 $207,000
竞选广告： 1,038 TV ads vs。 65
Cantor's loss has been interpreted as stemming from a combination of factors.
Brat, a professor at Randolph-Macon College in Richmond, Virginia, with a
doctorate in economics and master's degree in divinity, challenged Cantor as
sympathetic to attempts by House leaders to enact immigration laws that
President Barack Obama and fellow Democrats are seeking.
Brat characterized Cantor as an influential Washington player paying
attention to his role as a leader rather than voters in Virginia. Relatively
low turnout in a congressional primary enabled Brat's motivated allies to
outnumber any support that Cantor could claim, with the newcomer defeating
the veteran lawmaker by more than 10 percentage points.
"You can't run campaigns from Washington," King said.
Immigration Law
The prospects for revamping the nation's immigration laws aren't all that
are dashed by the impending House leadership struggle and the ways in which
Republicans will interpret the implications of Cantor's loss, he said.
"A lot of things are going to be dead," King said. "Thank God there's no
debt-ceiling vote coming up."
In his election campaign, Brat made compromise over raising the nation's
debt limit one of his complaints over Cantor's leadership in Washington.
The last vote to raise the debt ceiling was cast in February 2014. Another
vote isn't expected to be necessary until the middle of 2015, following
midterm elections in which Republicans are attempting to grab control of the
Senate and keep their House majority.
Cantor's willingness to negotiate was one of his strengths, according to
Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (GS) President Gary Cohn. "For financial markets
and for Main Street and Wall Street, that's an issue that we're dealing with
today more than we were dealing with yesterday at this time," Cohn said in
an interview on Bloomberg Television today.
‘Sticky Issues'
"Eric stood out on some of the tough issues," Cohn said. "He stood out on
immigration. He was willing to talk about immigration. He was willing to
talk about tax reform. He was willing to talk about the environment. He was
willing to talk about sticky issues that were sticky for Republicans."
The Virginia upset followed a lopsided contest: Cantor reported raising $5.4
million for his campaign through May 21 while Brat raised $207,000, in the
latest data available at the Federal Election Commission.
Cantor's campaign aired 1,038 television ads, some attacking Brat as a "
liberal college professor." The professor's campaign ran 65 ads, according
to New York-based Kantar Media's CMAG, which tracks ads. |
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