Newt Gingrich and GOPAC: Training the Farm Team that helped win the Republican Revolution of 1994

The title of this thesis is Newt Gingrich and GOPAC: Training the Farm Team that helped win the Republican Revolution of 1994 . The thesis is that Newt Gingrich and GOPAC helped train a new generation of Republican leaders to raise money and run for office. These efforts slowly increased the number of Republicans in municipal and state level and had a \u27trickle up effect\u27. This meant that their increased quality (i.e. previous electoral experience) helped them eventually take back Congress in 1994. I contend that their actions helped increase the number of state level Republicans and, with time, gave the Republicans a quality field of candidates to run for Congress. For this reason I think Pete du Pont and Newt Gingrich deserve the title political entrepreneurs\u27