Slingshot : the defeat of Eric Cantor

Excerpt From: Lauren Cohen Bell. “Slingshot.” 

“This book should not exist because the events it describes should never have happened. Eric Cantor was not supposed to lose his primary election in 2014. But despite the majority leader spending nearly $6 million and completely dominating every conventional form of campaign media, he was defeated. An inevitable march toward the Speakership of the U.S. House of Representatives was derailed by an economics professor from a small liberal arts college who leaned in and challenged one of the most powerful people in Washington.

Our project began with a bit of good fortune in the unlikely form of Elliot Meyer’s undergraduate research project, conducted under the direction of Lauren C. Bell.”