by Tracy Munsil | Aug 18, 2016 | Uncategorized
The next generation is up for grabs politically. Although the youth vote swung heavily to Barack Obama in the past two elections, there are clear signs of hope in the next generation from a conservative perspective. Despite energized millennial support for the...
by Tracy Munsil | Aug 17, 2016 | Uncategorized
This fall I’m going to be blogging about what college students—mostly political science majors—at Arizona Christian University are saying and thinking about American politics. Most of them are voting for president for the first time, our nation’s most...
by Tracy Munsil | Aug 16, 2016 | Uncategorized
This morning I begin teaching a class in Campaigns and Elections at Arizona Christian University. As I’ve prepared for the semester, I’ve been struggling with the question: What do I tell the next generation voting for the first time? When I was their age,...
by Tracy Munsil | Jul 26, 2016 | Uncategorized
Yesterday the Democratic delegates in Philadelphia completed the first item of business of any political convention, approving the 2016 Democratic Party Platform. Political party platforms are important—think of the platform as an organization’s mission-vision...
by Tracy Munsil | Jul 21, 2016 | Uncategorized
I am still processing the long-term fallout from Ted Cruz’s historic non-endorsement from last night. Internally, my responses oscillate between this was Cruz’s very public act of political suicide and it was an incredibly brilliant political set-up for...
