SHOCK poll: Eric Cantor (R) in primary trouble !?

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Could it be that Cantor was done in by local considerations?  A lot of people voted for Brat because Cantor was out of touch with his district (or so I'm told).  If so, isn't this kind of a parochial motivation, and not an ideological one?  If Eric Cantor, a personal bane to Obama, is insufficiently conservative for GOP voters in a GOP district, that means that there's no virtue in "working across the aisle".  Of course, "working across the aisle" is a key part of advancing parochial concerns, is it not?

Cantor comes off to me as a snot-nose; a smarmy, snarky weasel who I wouldn't trust to keep his end of a deal if pressure came to bear.  But he's not the first guy on the unlikeable side in Congress, and nastier people have won elections.  Still, he's not likeable, and I wonder how much that played in his defeat.  

I think that the Democrats need to contest this seat, as it represents a rare chance at expanding the map.  Brat is a likeable guy now, but he's an extreme religious conservative, which will produce vote leakage.  The wind is at his back now, but a moderate and reasonable Democrat may get enough Cantor supporters to elect a Democrat who is likely to be no more than a one-termer if elected.  I'm not sure that Brat isn't vulnerable, despite his present status as a giant-killer.