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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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Reality

Republican

" 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

" 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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Women

Simple

Responsibility

" 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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Science

Behavior

Long

" 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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Support

Right

Over

" 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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Justice

Long

Relationship

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

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Significant

Navigate

Challenge

" 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. "

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New

Cold

War

" Tax reform exists, sort of, as an outline - miles away from being actual passed legislation. "

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Tax

Legislation

Miles

" 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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Good

Young

Time

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

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Defeat

Plan

Real

" 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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School

Good

Women

" 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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Long

Know

Try

" 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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Understanding

Relationship

Media

" 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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Growing

Growing Up

Generation

" 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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Weird

Heart

People

" 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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Home

Feeling

Look

" I remember fancying myself a junior 'McCainiac' in 2000, though politics were rarely discussed in our household. "

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Though

Remember

Politics

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

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Obstacle

Story

Conflict

" Thoughtful education programs and access to effective forms of contraception are key to preventing unplanned pregnancy. "

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Thoughtful

Effective

Education

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

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Taxes

Could

Assume

" 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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Road

Looking

Moment

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

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Even

About

Not Talking

" 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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Nothing

Changes

Congress

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

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Right

Election

" 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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Data

Test

" 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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Teacher

Myself

History

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

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Run

Campaign

Claim

" 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

" 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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Picture

College