Kristen Soltis Anderson Quotes
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President Trump is right about at least one thing: No matter what he does, America cannot stop talking about him.
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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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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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I grew up in Orlando, Florida, and I joined the debate team right around the time of the 2000 election.
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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.
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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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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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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.
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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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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.
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For thousands of years, humans have used the art of storytelling to motivate and persuade.
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The robots are coming, whether we like it or not, and will change our economy in dramatic ways.
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Donald Trump has had political success positioning himself as a 'law-and-order' candidate.
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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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The reality is that the Republican Party may have unified government but is not unified enough on many major signature policy areas.
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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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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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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.
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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.
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I have written time and again about the damage the Republican Party has done to itself with the millennial generation.
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For federal races, being able to carefully navigate the Trump Era is a significant challenge.
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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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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.
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Without a clear diagnosis of why the candidate or party failed, there can be no clear consensus about how to move forward.