Politics

The campaign manager for the guy who defeated Cantor had to scrub his libertarian positions from his Facebook page after the victory.

 This is a great graphic.

Cantor's pollster showed him up by 34 points a week before the election. Oops. More.

"The most recent campaign finance reports showed he spent more than $1 million in April and May but still has more than $1.5 million in the bank.
Brat, by contrast, raised just more than $200,000 for his campaign, according to the reports.
"Dollars don't vote, people do," he told Fox News.
Large corporations and other groups donated heavily to the incumbent.
The American Chemistry Council, whose members include many blue chip companies, spent more than $300,000 on TV ads promoting Cantor. And the political arms of the American College of Radiology, the National Rifle Association and the National Association of Realtors had five-figure independent spending to promote him.
Brat helped offset the cash disadvantage with endorsements from conservative activists, like radio host Laura Ingraham, and with help from Tea Party activists angry at Cantor."

Talk radio outperformed big corporations.

Cantor's funds:

"Cantor spent more than $5 million on his campaign. Brat spent less than $150,000. But Brat made the election about Cantor's support for amnesty, so he won. "

I love it.

I've long maintained technology will not save us. The market is at best one step ahead because it innovates, but government expertly co-opts and uses those innovations against the people.