Author Archives: Kristen

Commitment to Blogging!

By Kristen | Published: November 18, 2009
This blog here at KristenSoltis.com is not my first time around the block blogging.  Back in 2005, while interning at the NRCC during a rather slow semester (there’s a reason that the CCC’s staff up big right before an election but only keep a skeleton crew around afterwards), I started up Swamp Pundette.  The blog [...]
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Making the RNC = VC?

By Kristen | Published: November 3, 2009
Late yesterday I made a short post over at The Next Right (click here to read it) focusing on a random idea I got while walking to work: have the RNC or NRCC set aside some funds to pledge to offer to campaigns as grants to assist particularly creative efforts in campaign innovation.  Given all [...]
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Two Kind-Of-A-Big-Deal Pieces

By Kristen | Published: November 2, 2009
With all the writing for other outlets, I’ve definitely neglected this blog!  Consider this a renewed commitment to post more frequently, particularly when a thought is too long for Twitter but too informal to be placed somewhere serious. Today, I’ve got a post up at National Review online for their Campaign 2009 coverage.  Kudos to the [...]
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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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The Perfect Inaugural Post

By Kristen | Published: July 29, 2009
I can think of no better item to feature on my first post here at KristenSoltis.com, the home of “Politics & Policy. Rock & Roll.” than a beautiful combination of the two.  Or is that four?   Below, Jimmy Fallon and The Roots turn their “Slow Jam the News” toward the polling world as they [...]
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