Eric Cantor and unknown unknowns in politics

Published June 11, 2014 3:58pm ET



House Majority Leader Eric Cantor’s surprising defeat in the Republican primary at the hands of obscure economics professor David Brat recalls Donald Rumsfeld’s statement about unknown unknowns.

Every once and awhile, voters deliver a result that none of the experts would have predicted.

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