The Hill has a quick run-down of what happened in today’s surprise GOP House Majority Leader vote.
The first round was Blunt 110, Boehner 79, Shadegg 40 and 2 for write-in candidate Jim Ryun.
Shadegg then dropped out, though he wasn’t technically required to since Ryun was eliminated.
The next vote was Boehner 122, Blunt 109.
So basically every vote Blunt didn’t get in round one turned out to be an anti-Blunt vote — actually, plus one. On the surface the pre-vote tallies looked like Blunt winning with a wide margin. Actually, it was Blunt versus anti-Blunt. And he could never get into the lead. That’s actually a sort of similar dynamic to what happened yesterday in the Democratic caucus race.
