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Eric Cantor, the GOP’s Wimpy Whip

Eric Cantor is in line for a big promotion if Republicans clean up this fall. John Batchelor on Cantor’s fundraising skill, TARP conflict—and aversion to rocking the boat.

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Eric Cantor, R-Va, talks to the media about health care reform. (Tom Williams, UPI / Newscom)

Eric Cantor, a soft-spoken Virginian, is a fresh face to curious Tea Party voters who, we are told, are surging like Marines in order to make him the majority leader of the Republican House come January and the new 112th Congress.

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