Once upon a time voters "valued the seniority and they wanted people who were committee chairs and who were leaders in Congress," Kyle Kondik, the managing editor of Sabato's Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia Center for Politics told CBS News."I don't think voters care about that stuff anymore, particularly not in the South, and I think to a certain extent Cantor's seniority and leadership position was almost damaging to him in that he was seen as sort of this symbol of things Republicans don't really like," Kondik added.