The Selfie Vote: Where Millennials Are Leading America (And How Republicans Can Keep Up)

by Kristen Soltis Anderson

Overview

The GOP’s leading millennial pollster offers an eye-opening look at America’s shifting demographics and reveals how these changes will affect future elections.

The American electorate is undergoing a radical transformation. Cultural factors are reshaping how a new generation of voters considers issues. Demographic shifts are creating an increasingly diverse electorate, and technological advances are opening new avenues for voter contact and persuasion.

Kristen Soltis Anderson examines these hot-topic trends and how they are influencing the way youth, women, and minorities vote. Blending observations from focus groups, personal stories, and polling results, the Republican pollster offers key insights into the changing nature of American politics. The Selfie Vote introduces you to tech-savvy political consultants and shows you how these hip young pollsters and consultants are using data mining and social media to transform electoral politics—including tracking your purchasing history. Make some purchases at a high-end culinary store? Crave sushi? Your choices outside the ballot box can reveal how you might vote. And anyone interested in the future of politics should know where these cultural trends are heading.

Data-driven yet highly readable, The Selfie Vote busts established myths about campaigns and elections while offering insights about what’s ahead—and what it could mean for American politics and governance.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780062343123
Publisher:	HarperCollins
Publication date:	11/21/2023
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	277
File size:	705 KB

About the Author

Kristen Soltis Anderson is the cofounder of Echelon Insights, a public opinion and data analytics firm that helps campaigns and companies design their messages and strategies. She is a contributor at the Daily Beast, and was named one of Time magazine's "30 Under 30" in 2013. She also served as a fellow at Harvard's Institute of Politics. She lives in Washington, DC.

Table of Contents

Introduction A Front-Facing Picture of a Generation; How Millennial Show Us Where We're All Going 1

1 The Election of 2076: Why Republicans Should Think More Like McDonald's 19

2 Snapchats from Hillary: How Video Games and Cat Videos Are Changing Campaigns 35

3 Saying No to the Dress (but Yes to the Diapers): The New Shape of the American Family 61

4 Taking Uber to Whole Foods: Density and the Rise of Open Data 87

5 Start-Ups and Stock Markets: How Young Workers View Their Careers (and Their Retirements) 109

6 Coding Our Way out of Student Debt: How to Refresh Higher Education 133

7 Pot and the Pope: How Young People Decide What It Is to Be Good 147

8 Showing Up and Reaching Out: How to Speak to America's Most Diverse Generation 169

9 Vote by Numbers: What Campaigns Are Learning from Silicon Valley 191

Conclusion Win the Future by Fighting the Past 211

Acknowledgments 223

Notes 227

Editorial Reviews

Anyone who wants to understand how Millennials are reshaping the political balance of power won’t find a more engaging or insightful tour guide. ” — Ronald Brownstein, Editorial Director, Strategic Partnerships

“As Kristen Soltis Anderson vividly demonstrates in these pages, growing up in a more urban, diverse, and entrepreneurial America has shaped the worldview of younger Americans in surprising and powerful ways, and this has enormous implications for our political future.” — Reihan Salam, executive editor of National Review

“Anderson has written a fresh and compelling portrait of the Millennial generation. Fluent in polling, politics, and policy,she makes a strong case that Republicans can attract young people by applying conservative principles to modern problems. Her knowledge of changing demography and voter analytics makes her insights especially valuable. ” — Karlyn Bowman, Senior Fellow, American Enterprise Institute

From the Publisher

Anyone who wants to understand how Millennials are reshaping the political balance of power won’t find a more engaging or insightful tour guide.

Ronald Brownstein

As Kristen Soltis Anderson vividly demonstrates in these pages, growing up in a more urban, diverse, and entrepreneurial America has shaped the worldview of younger Americans in surprising and powerful ways, and this has enormous implications for our political future.

Reihan Salam

Anderson has written a fresh and compelling portrait of the Millennial generation. Fluent in polling, politics, and policy,she makes a strong case that Republicans can attract young people by applying conservative principles to modern problems. Her knowledge of changing demography and voter analytics makes her insights especially valuable.

Karlyn Bowman