re: #196 Jay C

Not wrt Kentucky, anyway. I thought Eric Cantor’s fate was usually framed as a “classic” case of the Establishment Party Stalwart getting sandbagged by his constituents in favor of the Extremist-but-Popular Insurgent.

That he was also virtually the last Jewish Republican in any serious national office was probably irrelevant.

I think another aspect was Cantor’s belief that he was safe and didn’t have to work much for re-election.