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

[The Mikado]

Don't feel bad for Cantor. He may never be the first Jewish speaker of the House, but he's going to become insanely rich earlier in his career than anticipated.

Isn't he already insanely rich?

It looks like he's in the low-to-mid 9 figures, which makes him quite comfortably rich by U.S. standards but only middle class in terms of Congressmen. He should be able to increase that by 5-10x as a lobbyist.

You must have added a few digits to that, because "low-to-mid 9 figures" would be in the hundreds of millions, i.e. Mitt Romney money.  Unless you're counting the numbers after the decimal point?

Anyway, this is the funniest thing to happen in politics in 2014.

[The Mikado]

I see this as a case of the tortoise and the hare.  The tortoise, Mitch McConnell, went back to his state, campaigned, brought home the pork-barrel, and did everything he could to reingratiate himself to Kentucky, a state where he was nonetheless widely despised, and pulled it off, winning his primary.  Eric Cantor, the hare, eager to get to the top of the House GOP food chain and becoming the Washington insider par excellence, ignored his district and his mosquito of a primary opponent and lost.

Take a page from Mitch McConnell: sometimes it pays to be the tortoise.