Monthly Archives: August 2009

Young Voters: On Health Care and On the GOP

By Kristen | Published: August 19, 2009
In case you’ve noticed a theme, I write quite a bit about young voters and their take on politics, policy, and the parties.  This week, I got a piece in print (a real hardcopy! you can hold it in your hands!) at the Washington Examiner explaining why young voters could be won back to the [...]
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A Tale of Two Reforms

By Kristen | Published: August 14, 2009
In today’s Pollster.com (and cross-posted at The Next Right), I wrote about the polling numbers that show how there’s a lot of similar context between the health care debate and the 2005 social security debate.  In both cases, the President took his popularity and electoral mandate and decided to go for broke on a policy [...]
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Drum Corps: A Very Different Kind of Rock

By Kristen | Published: August 3, 2009
So Wednesday evening, I joined @missmaryel for an unconventional evening of live music…a drum corps competition in Fairfax, VA.  Her brother is a member of the legendary Madison Scouts, one of the corps performing that evening.  The whole night was refreshing and astonishing; if you’ve never marched or performed with a corps or guard unit, [...]
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