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" 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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" 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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Question

Say

Easy

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

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Navigate

Challenge

" 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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Enough

Him

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

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Campaign

Claim

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

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Shifting

Born

" 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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Young

Education

Equality

" 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

" 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

" 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

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

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Tax

Legislation

Miles

" 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

" 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

" 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. "

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Young

Trade

People

" 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

" 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

" 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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Tomorrow

Today

Strong

" 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

" 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

" 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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Some

Choice

School

" 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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Way

Structure

Fair

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

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Way

Bad

Women

" 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

" 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. "

Kristen Soltis Anderson

Support

Right

Over

" 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

" Polling is an art as well as a science, and the art of crafting good questions is still vital. "

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Well

Good

Questions

" Obamacare itself did not become popular until the middle of 2017, when the risk of repeal was the greatest; for the bulk of 2010 after passage, it was unpopular by double-digit margins. "

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Passage

Middle

Greatest

" Let's think about where things stood in December 2015. By that time, Republicans had already had such epic and long-standing struggles with young people that I'd written a whole book about it. Additionally, Republicans had already had a bruising start to their primary season. "

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Book

Start

People

" President Trump is right about at least one thing: No matter what he does, America cannot stop talking about him. "

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Right

America

Talking

" 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. "

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Democrats

Divided