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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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" 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. "

Kristen Soltis Anderson

Politics

Think

Space

" 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. "

Kristen Soltis Anderson

Reform

Will

Tax

" 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. "

Kristen Soltis Anderson

Behavior

Data

People

" 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. "

Kristen Soltis Anderson

Women

Simple

Responsibility

" 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. "

Kristen Soltis Anderson

Positive

Someone

Inspire

" 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. "

Kristen Soltis Anderson

Failure

Reach

Women

" 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. "

Kristen Soltis Anderson

Immigration

Always

Vision

" 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?' "

Kristen Soltis Anderson

Media

Him

Number

" 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. "

Kristen Soltis Anderson

Baby

Democrats

Divided

" Trump won 44.4 percent of votes in Virginia in 2016. At press time, Ed Gillespie had won 45 percent of the vote in 2017. "

Kristen Soltis Anderson

Votes

Vote

Virginia

" Without a clear diagnosis of why the candidate or party failed, there can be no clear consensus about how to move forward. "

Kristen Soltis Anderson

Without

Why

Party

" 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. "

Kristen Soltis Anderson

Support

People

Healthcare

" 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. "

Kristen Soltis Anderson

Election

Way

New

" 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. "

Kristen Soltis Anderson

Political

Rise

War

" 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. "

Kristen Soltis Anderson

Young

Trade

People

" 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. "

Kristen Soltis Anderson

Left

Women

Sometimes

" 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. "

Kristen Soltis Anderson

Growing

Growing Up

Generation

" 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? "

Kristen Soltis Anderson

Way

Structure

Fair

" 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. "

Kristen Soltis Anderson

Work

Live

Hard Work

" 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. "

Kristen Soltis Anderson

Beautiful

Leadership

Education

" 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. "

Kristen Soltis Anderson

Children

Education

Opportunity

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

Kristen Soltis Anderson

Tax

Legislation

Miles

" 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. "

Kristen Soltis Anderson

Question

Say

Easy

" 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. "

Kristen Soltis Anderson

Support

People

Numbers

" Maybe President Trump will turn out to be a fabulously successful president who will endear the millennial generation to the Right anew. "

Kristen Soltis Anderson

Turn

Generation

Out

" 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.' "

Kristen Soltis Anderson

Home

Feeling

Look

" 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. "

Kristen Soltis Anderson

Hard

Two

Political

" 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. "

Kristen Soltis Anderson

Understanding

Relationship

Media

" 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. "

Kristen Soltis Anderson

School

Good

Women

" 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. "

Kristen Soltis Anderson

School

American

City