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One thing that is fairly undeniable about Trump - love him or loathe him - is his understanding of how to manipulate the media and to perpetuate a symbiotic relationship with the press.
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Feeling unsafe in your own home? Look no further than those terrorists and criminals and illegal immigrants who have been given free reign and on whom Trump says we need to 'get tough.'
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Illegal Immigrants
Immigrants
Reign
Unsafe
Further
Terrorists
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Obamacare itself did not become popular until the middle of 2017, when the risk of repeal was the greatest; for the bulk of 2010 after passage, it was unpopular by double-digit margins.
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Bulk
Unpopular
Double-Digit
Passage
Repeal
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After the 2012 election, 'independent' becomes the popular choice among new young voters and stays that way with the exception of a brief spike around the 2016 Democratic primary fight.
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Election
Exception
Voters
Brief
Spike
Stays
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Millennials are not deeply familiar with school choice, and have some reservations, especially about the types of institutions that a student might choose to attend with taxpayer dollars.
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Familiar
Millennials
Reservations
Attend
Taxpayer
Types
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In the relatively short time frame of December 2015 to March 2017, nearly half of all young Republicans left their party at some point, with roughly a quarter bidding the GOP adieu for good.
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December
Gop
March
Short Time
Time Good Young
Republicans
Frame
Quarter
Roughly
Time Frame
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Women want fair taxes, a growing economy, affordable health care, secure borders, and the defeat of ISIS. They don't need the solutions to be wrapped in pink. They just want problems solved.
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Affordable
Affordable Health Care
Borders
Defeat
Health Care
Secure
Solutions
Health Women Care
Pink
Wrapped
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There's no question that a Democratic Congress plus a Trump presidency would equal gridlock. Nothing moves, nothing changes, nothing gets accomplished, nothing gets reformed. Voters know this.
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Plus
Presidency
Voters
No Question
Reformed
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Washington in the summer is a never-ending stream of tour groups and packs of students, here to swarm the monuments, stroll the National Mall, and learn about our nation's history and government.
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Government
Groups
Never Ending
Packs
Summer
Nation
Washington
Learn
Mall
Monuments
Stream
Stroll
Tour
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Lots of folks still do watch TV, but I think understanding the future of politics means understanding where folks' attention is being paid and delivering your message and your ideas in that space.
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There are certainly more Republicans who like President Trump than like 'Republicans in Congress,' and certainly many Republicans who already feel like their own Congress is a brake pedal of its own.
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Brake
Republicans
Pedal
President Trump
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President Trump, who made his name in the business world and built a brand as a successful CEO via a reality TV show that punished incompetence, was not just elected for a series of tough policy views.
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Business World
Ceo
Incompetence
Reality Tv
Views
President Trump
Punished
Tv Show
Via
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When talented, qualified women take on greater responsibility, the simple fact of being talented and qualified is hardly enough to shield them from the gender-specific animosity that will come their way.
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Qualified
Talented
Hardly
Shield
Simple Fact
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Either people are changing their minds about Trump, or increasing numbers of his supporters are deciding it is too embarrassing to admit they support him. Neither is a particularly good position to be in.
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Numbers
Admit
Deciding
Good Support People
Increasing
Supporters
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Republicans can't always agree on where to cut spending. They certainly can't agree on what to do about entitlements. There isn't a unified foreign policy vision, and there's no consensus on immigration reform.
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Consensus
Entitlement
Foreign Policy
Immigration
Immigration Reform
Unified
Republicans
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In the year 2000, the very youngest members of the Baby Boomer crew were in their mid-30s while the oldest Boomers were mid-50s. That year, the Boomers were a generation divided somewhat equally between the GOP and Democrats.
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Crew
Divided
Gop
Boomer
Democrats
Somewhat
Equally
Oldest
Youngest
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In 2014, topics like Black Lives Matter, the Middle East, and Ebola were prominent in the national discussion, with mentions of then-President Barack Obama making up a relatively small slice of the discussion on news twitter.
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Barack
Discussion
Making Up
Middle East
Prominent
Topics
Barack Obama
Slice
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When polled on Donald Trump's agenda, though pluralities of young people oppose his policies on immigration and healthcare, there is one issue where Trump's position wins outright majority support, even among young Democrats: trade.
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Healthcare
Immigration
Democrats
Donald
Support People Young
Oppose
Outright
Policies
Wins
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Often times, when we talk about improving our public schools, it is easy to come back to the question of money. Are schools basically fine, just underfunded? Millennials say no - more funding isn't the cure-all for what ails our schools.
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Funding
Improving
Millennials
Public Schools
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For some in my generation, Sept. 11th was a moment of political awakening. For others, the Iraq War or the financial crisis or the rise of Obama were the major events of their teenage years that began to lay the foundation for their views.
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Crisis
Financial Crisis
Foundation
Iraq War
My Generation
Teenage
Teenage Years
Views
Rise
Lay
Sept
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Young voters may be growing up in an era of increased global connection, cooperation and commerce. But they're very open to politicians who tell them it is these very things that are keeping elites in power and keeping their generation down.
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Commerce
Cooperation
Elites
Voters
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The data - on issues and on Trump himself - keep pointing back to 'one-in-four' as the true size of Trump's base. It is around one in four who like the tweeting, like the insults, the things other people say are mean or unproductive behavior.
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Data
Pointing
Unproductive
Base
Insults
Tweeting
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There's a lot of work to be done in the polling world, and a need to continue to rethink how we do what we do. We also need to be more open to the idea that any one input - in this case, polls - may not be the only way to hear what people are saying.
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Input
Polling
Work World People
Rethink
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President Trump rightly points out that law enforcement is mostly made up of good people putting themselves in harm's way to protect us. He lauds the men and women in blue and often talks about the need to make it easier for the cops to do their jobs.
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Blue
Enforcement
Good People
Harm
Law Enforcement
Men And Women
Good Men Women
Cops
Good Women Men
President Trump
Rightly
Talks
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I do not think it is a coincidence that young people gravitated toward populist voices in the French election and that the two issue positions where Donald Trump and young voters seem to agree most - global engagement and trade - are rooted in populism.
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Coincidence
Election
Engagement
Populist
Rooted
Voters
Donald
Donald Trump
Positions
Voices
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On paper, Emmanuel Macron should be a candidate tailor-made for young voters. He himself is young. He pushes for more entrepreneurship, modernization, and a loosening of regulations that prevent young workers from working as they please when they please.
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Modernization
Please
Voters
Workers
Candidate
Prevent
Pushes
Regulations
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It was weird that I was a young person who was Republican. And I wanted to get at the heart of why it was that so many people of my generation thought that being Republican just wasn't for them. They thought that conservative ideas just weren't for them.
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My Generation
So Many People
Young Person
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Women face unique challenges in society, no doubt. But focusing narrowly on women as a special interest group isn't the winning play. The ability to pay your bills, send your kids to a good school, and keep your family safe are 'women's issues' after all.
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Bills
No Doubt
Focusing
Narrowly
Special Interest
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It's not hard to assume that voters do not have deeply considered views on each and every policy issue before them but instead, perhaps, have one or two strongly held views and then allow their favored political leaders to fill in the gaps on the rest of the issues.
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Gaps
Political Leaders
Views
Voters
Assume
Favored
Fill
Held
Strongly
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With an economy that is going strong and a belief that tomorrow will be better than today, it may be easier to just shrug it off if, say, an internet service you use like WhatsApp gets turned off by the government as the Communist Party's national congress approaches.
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Communist
Whatsapp
Government Today Tomorrow
Approaches
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Political science has long tried to tackle a fundamental question of voter behavior: Do voters choose politicians because those politicians hold views that they like, or do voters choose policy positions because the politicians they like say those positions are correct?
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Behavior
Political Science
Views
Voters
Correct
Fundamental
Positions
Tackle
Voter
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As a member of the oldest slice of the Millennial generation, my teenage years spanned the late 1990s through the start of the new millennium. I spent that time watching a lot of MTV's 'Total Request Live', 'Dawson's Creek', and wearing out a dual VHS tape of 'Titanic'.
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Millennium
Mtv
Request
Tape
Teenage
Teenage Years
Time Start New
Dual
Creek
Dawson
Member
Oldest
Slice
Titanic
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In 2010, voters certainly hit the brakes on the Obama presidency. Fast forward to the 2016 election, where voters yanked up on the emergency brake and did a donut in the parking lot. Now, the car has stopped. We sit here dizzy for a moment, looking to get on the road again.
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Brake
Dizzy
Election
Parking
Parking Lot
Presidency
Voters
Emergency
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Election losses are always an inkblot test for partisans. If a candidate's defeat has no clear and obvious cause, if the data points are all over the map, it is easy for those on the sidelines to claim, 'Candidate X would have won if only he or she had been more like... me.'
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Defeat
Election
Obvious
Sidelines
Candidate
Claim
He Or She
Losses
Map
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Let's think about where things stood in December 2015. By that time, Republicans had already had such epic and long-standing struggles with young people that I'd written a whole book about it. Additionally, Republicans had already had a bruising start to their primary season.
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December
Epic
Time Start People
Time Start Where
Additionally
Republicans
Long-Standing
Stood
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Fast-moving views are not likely to be strongly held views. Instead, they're much more likely to be about people mirroring back the signals they see coming from the leaders they support. People can resolve dissonance by shifting their own view on issues that aren't top of mind.
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Signals
Views
Held
Strongly
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If a woman rising in power is too tough or aggressive, she's attacked for it. If she's attractive, she's accused of having used that to her advantage. And even if a woman is beyond qualified for a role, there will always be those who raise doubts about if she's really qualified.
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Accused
Advantage
Aggressive
Attractive
Qualified
Rising
Tough
Power Always Will
Attacked
Beyond
Doubts
Raise
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Millennials easily connect the dots between good education and good opportunities, and they also understand that it isn't just hard work that determines how well a child will be educated - it also depends on where they live and the resources their parents commit to their education.
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Commit
Dots
Good Education
Hard Work
Millennials
Education Work Good
Determines
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I had a history teacher who taught us a lot about the Cold War. You had these examples of countries where the government had tried to manage the economy really intensely, and it ended up being bad for the citizens there. I found myself beginning to lean more right on economic issues.
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Cold War
Manage
War History Government
Examples
Intensely
Lean
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When people note that more and more voters are cutting their landline phones and that more and more people are refusing to pick up phone calls from numbers they don't know, they are identifying problems that the polling industry has long struggled with and continue to try to adapt to.
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Cutting
Identifying
Numbers
Phone Calls
Polling
Voters
Adapt
Calls
Struggled
More And More
Note
Refusing
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My dad is an electrical engineer. So he was always very focused on, you know, teaching his daughters about, you know, science, math, technology. None of us actually became engineers for our careers, but I always had that exposure when I was young, and I just loved playing computer games.
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Careers
Electrical
Engineers
Exposure
Math
Loved Playing
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After Mitt Romney's defeat, the RNC released its official assessment of what happened - a failure to reach younger voters, nonwhite voters, women - but was met with a counter-narrative that, in fact, it was Romney's failure to be conservative enough that led to a depressed Republican base.
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Assessment
Defeat
Romney
Voters
Base
Depressed
Mitt
Official
Released
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I went to Washington, D.C, for the first time my senior year as part of Girls Nation, put on by the American Legion Auxiliary, which sends high school students to D.C. to form a pretend federal government. There was an energy about the city that made me feel like I just had to come back there.
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Federal Government
High School Students
Legion
Senior Year
Time Government Me
Pretend
Sends
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In the 2012 election, the polls that had made Mitt Romney so confident that he was going to win were his own internal polls, based on models that failed to accurately estimate voter turnout. But the public polls, especially statewide polls, painted a fairly accurate picture of how the electoral college might go.
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Accurate
Election
Electoral College
Models
Polls
Romney
Fairly
Failed
Estimate
Internal
Mitt
Mitt Romney
Painted
Turnout
Voter
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Donald Trump, having spent decades in the public eye as an entertainer, may not understand what the nuclear triad is, or what America's 'first use' nuclear policy is, or why starting a trade war would be a disaster. But he does understand storytelling, the power of a clear narrative, and the importance of stirring emotion.
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Decades
Disaster
Emotion
Importance
Narrative
Nuclear
Public Eye
Stirring
Entertainer
Donald
Donald Trump
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Not long ago, women in Afghanistan were required by Taliban leadership to be covered nearly head-to-toe and were barely allowed to leave the home; that young Afghan women today are not only accessing an education but are able to meet young people from around the world and cheer on a robot of their own making is something beautiful.
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Afghan
Covered
Taliban
Barely
Required
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There is nothing just or fair about what happened to Jordan Edwards. And his story is yet another in a long line of tragedies that now powerfully remind us of the long way we still have to go in creating a fair and just relationship between law enforcement, our criminal justice system, and the public our laws are supposed to protect.
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Criminal Justice
Criminal Justice System
Enforcement
Jordan
Law Enforcement
Criminal
Long Line
Remind
Tragedies
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