With Cantor Gone in Virginia's 7th, Do Democrats Stand a Chance?
By Frederick H. Lowe

Special to the Trice Edney News Wire from TheNorthStarNews.com

(TriceEdneyWire.com) - House Majority Leader Eric Cantor's defeat June 10 was an earthquake in Virginia's heavily Republican 7th Congressional District, but will it be enough to put a Democrat into Cantor's old seat?

Dr. David Bositis, a political scientist, formerly associated with the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies in Washington, D.C., doesn't think so.

"If this were a presidential election year, I'd say the Democrats might have a shot at VA-7, but it's not and so I suspect it's very unlikely," Bositis wrote in an email to The NorthStar News & Analysis.

David Bratt, a Tea Party Republican, who K.O.-ed big bucks Cantor, will face Democrat Jack Trammell.
Bratt is chair of the department of economics and business at Randolph-Macon College, which is in Ashland, Va.

Trammell is an associate professor of sociology at Randolph-Macon College. He is author of seven books, including "The Richmond Slave Trade: The Economic Backbone of The Old Dominion." Trammell worked on the presidential campaigns of Michael Dukakis and Bill Clinton.