How this suburban Republican is preparing to survive a blue wave

Rep. Kevin Yoder, R-Kan., is bracing for a Democratic wave in the midterm elections, relying on a unique homegrown field program to protect him from being swept out of office by what the Kansas Republican assumes could be a “500-year flood.”

Yoder, 42, has assembled a team of 75 high school and college student volunteers and divided them into teams of eight to 10. Each group is responsible for contacting and turning out approximately 22,000, targeted voters in 10 delineated territories of the suburban 3rd Congressional District that flanks Kansas City, Mo.