Frost & Davis: Two former House campaign chairs explain how they beat the midterm curse
For most of the year, we’ve been repeating the conventional wisdom that a president’s party usually loses seats during a midterm election.
But there are two recent exceptions to that rule: 1998 and 2002.
Former Republican Congressman Tom Davis, from Virginia — the chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee during the 2002 midterms —and former Democratic Congressman Martin Frost, from Texas — the chair of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee during the 1998 midterms — join Chuck to talk about what works and doesn’t for congressional campaigns.
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