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It’s despicable to blame Eric Cantor’s loss on his Judaism

By Philip Klein
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It’s despicable to blame Eric Cantor’s loss on his Judaism

Of all the explanations being offered for the surprising defeat of House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., the most despicable is the suggestion that he lost because he was Jewish.

This suggestion has popped up in both subtle and overt ways. In the New York Daily News, Norm Ornstein noted that Cantor “was highly visible as the only Jewish Republican in the House, in a district with a strong evangelical presence.”

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