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Not all change and disruption succeeds, to be sure.
I dreamed of being like Sam Seaborn on 'The West Wing'.
Being a skeptical and thoughtful consumer of polls is essential.
Even when we're not talking about Trump, we're talking about Trump.
A compelling story requires conflict, friction, an obstacle to be overcome.
Donald Trump has had political success positioning himself as a 'law-and-order' candidate.
For thousands of years, humans have used the art of storytelling to motivate and persuade.
Electing Democrats means nothing happens. Elect Republicans, and at least there's a chance.
Tax reform exists, sort of, as an outline - miles away from being actual passed legislation.
For federal races, being able to carefully navigate the Trump Era is a significant challenge.
Polling is an art as well as a science, and the art of crafting good questions is still vital.
The robots are coming, whether we like it or not, and will change our economy in dramatic ways.
I think 'Candy Crush' may be fading in popularity, but there's always something new that's popping up.
I grew up in Orlando, Florida, and I joined the debate team right around the time of the 2000 election.
For Trump, the story is everything. There is no real plan to defeat the villains that Trump tees up, of course.
I remember fancying myself a junior 'McCainiac' in 2000, though politics were rarely discussed in our household.
President Trump is right about at least one thing: No matter what he does, America cannot stop talking about him.
Candidates, of course, often claim that they want to run 'a purely positive campaign,' but this rarely materializes.
I have written time and again about the damage the Republican Party has done to itself with the millennial generation.
The things that frustrate one piece of Trump's coalition often endear him to or embolden another wing of the coalition.
Thoughtful education programs and access to effective forms of contraception are key to preventing unplanned pregnancy.
Trump won 44.4 percent of votes in Virginia in 2016. At press time, Ed Gillespie had won 45 percent of the vote in 2017.
If there is one issue where one could justifiably assume that Republicans are all in agreement, it is on lowering taxes.
Without a clear diagnosis of why the candidate or party failed, there can be no clear consensus about how to move forward.
Major realigning events can reshape coalitions and change how large groups of people view politics, policy, and the parties.
It is fair to debate how much either bill - Obamacare in 2010, tax reform in 2018 - had or will have an impact on the midterms.
The reality is that the Republican Party may have unified government but is not unified enough on many major signature policy areas.
Trump was elected in part because enough Americans viewed him as a capable and strong leader, someone who is 'decisive' and 'competent.'
Maybe President Trump will turn out to be a fabulously successful president who will endear the millennial generation to the Right anew.
My slice of the millennial generation, as we grew up, became - to the dismay of the GOP - a bloc of fairly consistently Democratic voters.
Hillary Clinton famously embraced the Trump-originated label 'nasty woman' as yet another way to show just how bad Donald Trump was to women.
True small-c conservatives should fight at every turn to preserve basic standards of conduct and institutions that have served our nation well.
What is a fair way to structure our economy? To handle those who did not come to America legally? To distribute scarce public resources and benefits?
Congress has been productive when focusing on bites of policy that don't inflame the divisions within the party and quietly do the work of governing.
In 2012, when Mitt Romney named Russia as our greatest geopolitical foe, Democrats scoffed and accused Republicans of trying to ignite a new Cold War.
The idea that someone, somewhere will campaign in a positive, uplifting way on an agenda that can inspire Americans? I'm sadly done holding my breath.
The American system is set up to have two parties competing for votes. But Americans have not had the same two parties to choose from since the beginning.
Federalists, Whigs, Democratic-Republicans; parties are born, parties die, and parties realign themselves to adapt to shifting demographics and attitudes.
Winning feels great, and everybody loves a winner. But the very best figure out what's coming next and don't assume they've got the winning formula forever.
'Staunch conservatives' and 'free marketeers' are fairly typical Republicans, while the 'American preservationists' are far less reliably a part of a GOP coalition.
There's no counting the number of times the media have asked, 'Will this be the thing that drives Donald Trump's supporters away from him? Is this finally the time?'
Breaking dramatically with Bush-era Republican orthodoxy, Trump ran on a message of 'America First' and of avoiding spending blood and treasure on adventures overseas.
Those who are able to afford to live in a neighborhood with 'good schools' will do so, knowing that a good education is the key to good opportunity for their children.
In the United States, it is unmistakable that young people have broken away from the political right and have gravitated to more leftist-populist figures like Bernie Sanders.
With Trump assuming the role of America's CEO, it may be chaos rather than callousness that threatens to harm his standing with the American voters who are giving him a chance.
Boosting STEM education opportunities for young women globally is one critical way that the U.S. can promote women's equality, as well as economic development, around the world.
Obama's numbers fell by a slightly larger amount over his first few months because he enjoyed much more support right at the start from Republicans, support that eroded quickly.
When the oldest batch of millennials really first began voting around the mid-2000s, they leaned a little toward the Democrats, looking a lot like the Gen Xers also did at that time.
'Trump is a mean man' is a message that Democrats used time and time and time again in the 2016 race. Airwaves were filled with reminders that Trump has insulted just about everyone.
Overall, America's math scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) have risen since the 1990s though remain disappointing when compared to the rest of the globe.