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All Quotes by author - Kristen Soltis Anderson

" A compelling story requires conflict, friction, an obstacle to be overcome. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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'. "

" Being a skeptical and thoughtful consumer of polls is essential. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Candidates, of course, often claim that they want to run 'a purely positive campaign,' but this rarely materializes. "

" 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. "

" Conservative women often make the case that 'all issues are women's issues,' and are sometimes derided by those on the Left when they do so. "

" Donald Trump has had political success positioning himself as a 'law-and-order' candidate. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Electing Democrats means nothing happens. Elect Republicans, and at least there's a chance. "

" 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.' "

" Even when we're not talking about Trump, we're talking about Trump. "

" 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. "

" Federalists, Whigs, Democratic-Republicans; parties are born, parties die, and parties realign themselves to adapt to shifting demographics and attitudes. "

" 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.' "

" For federal races, being able to carefully navigate the Trump Era is a significant challenge. "

" 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. "

" For thousands of years, humans have used the art of storytelling to motivate and persuade. "

" For Trump, the story is everything. There is no real plan to defeat the villains that Trump tees up, of course. "

" Hillary Clinton famously embraced the Trump-originated label 'nasty woman' as yet another way to show just how bad Donald Trump was to women. "

" 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. "

" I dreamed of being like Sam Seaborn on 'The West Wing'. "

" 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. "

" If there is one issue where one could justifiably assume that Republicans are all in agreement, it is on lowering taxes. "

" I grew up in Orlando, Florida, and I joined the debate team right around the time of the 2000 election. "

" 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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