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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.' "

Kristen Soltis Anderson
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Me
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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
Long
" 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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" 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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" 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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Today
Strong
" 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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Leadership
Education
" 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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Choice
School
" 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. "
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Will
Tax
" The things that frustrate one piece of Trump's coalition often endear him to or embolden another wing of the coalition. "
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Trump
Things
" 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?' "
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Media
Him
Number
" 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? "
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Structure
Fair
" For thousands of years, humans have used the art of storytelling to motivate and persuade. "
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Motivate
Storytelling
Used
" 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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Congress
Within
Policy
" 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. "
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Looking
Voting
Time
" Trump was elected in part because enough Americans viewed him as a capable and strong leader, someone who is 'decisive' and 'competent.' "
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Strong
Enough
Him
" 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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Broken
Young
Right
" Not all change and disruption succeeds, to be sure. "
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Disruption
Sure
Succeeds
" Maybe President Trump will turn out to be a fabulously successful president who will endear the millennial generation to the Right anew. "
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Turn
Generation
Out
" 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. "
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Left
Women
Sometimes
" 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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People
Support
View
" 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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Government
Reality
Republican
" 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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Immigration
Always
Vision
" 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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People
Need
Done
" 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
Way
New
" 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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Women
Problems
Pink
" 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. "
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America
Progress
Rest
" I dreamed of being like Sam Seaborn on 'The West Wing'. "
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West Wing
Being
Like
" 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. "
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Positive
Someone
Inspire
" 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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Support
People
Numbers
" Without a clear diagnosis of why the candidate or party failed, there can be no clear consensus about how to move forward. "
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Why
Party
" Donald Trump has had political success positioning himself as a 'law-and-order' candidate. "
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Success
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