UPDATE: From Politico via Drudge,
the raw vote totals on David Brat’s surprising upset over
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor.
THE ORIGINAL POST:
Talking Points Memo is
reporting on early, and shocking, exit polls from Virginia in
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor’s primary bid:
House Minority Leader Eric Cantor’s (R-VA) primary fight looked
much more serious than many had thought.With 52 percent of precincts reporting 41 minutes after polls
closed primary challenger David Brat was leading Cantor, 57.9
percent to 42.1 percent.Who is Brat? He is an economics professor at Randolph-Macon
College. Brat was regarded as a long shot candidate but Cantor’s
campaign still spent over
$1 million on advertising to stress that the top House Republican
is a “strong conservative.”
The Washington Post
rightly spotted some momentum from the Tea Party-affiiated Brat
last month.
It ain’t over yet, but no political establishment is safe, it
seems.
UPDATE: Associated Press
is calling it: Cantor loses!
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