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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.
Robert Pianta, dean of the Curry School of Education at the University of Virginia, said that in California and elsewhere more is known about who is a good teacher in this age of annual testing of students and more robust teacher evaluations. He said he believes that's spurred the California lawsuit and other movement on the issue. He predicts more states will move toward longer probationary periods to grant tenure and more renewable contracts.
Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics, said Democrats, who make up 43% of the district, played a role as well. "There was a major outreach to Democrats in that district," Sabato said. “You had Brat operatives going to Democratic Party committees, even on election eve, asking them to go to the polls to get rid of Eric Cantor.”
Larry Sabato said he believes Ingraham's support was the deciding factor in Brat's upset win.
His campaign had reached out to democrats to “get rid of Eric Cantor,” according to Larry Sabato.
Larry Sabato said that Cantor’s comeback will not happen overnight.
Virginia’s governor sustained a critical reversal when his fellow Democrats lost control of the state Senate with the surprise resignation of Sen. Phillip P. Puckett (D-Russell). “It’s very bad news — bad karma can ruin a governorship,” University of Virginia political scientist Larry Sabato said. “He’s got 3 1/2 years to turn it around, but it was a real setback.”
"It is amusing that this small college—Randolph-Macon College—is going to have its own congressman," Larry J. Sabato said in an interview with Rachel Maddow on her MSNBC show on Tuesday evening. "And all I can say is, I’m glad I’m not there because the faculty wars are bad enough when you don’t have two faculty members running against each other for Congress. So good luck to them."
But analysts do say that Mr. Brat — who has a divinity degree from Princeton Theological Seminary and often invokes God in his speeches — appeals to Christian conservatives in a way that Mr. Cantor simply cannot. “I think he was able to be an attractive candidate to that particular constituency,” said Geoffrey Skelley, a political analyst at the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics. “Cantor doesn’t employ that kind of rhetoric.”
Geoffrey Skelley, a political scientist at the University of Virginia, termed Brat's victory “a 9.0 on the Richter scale.”