Good morning. Good afternoon, good evening, wherever you are. And welcome to the politics guys with your host, Jay Carson and Michael Baranowski.

Welcome to the politics guys. I'm Michael Baranowski, a political scientist at Northern Kentucky University.

My guest today is political analyst Kristen Soltis Anderson, who does so much that it's really hard to summarize it all in one intro, but I'm going to try my best.

She's a Republican pollster and co-founder of the research and analytics firm, Echelon Insights,

a contributor at ABC News, a Washington Examiner columnist, a regular guest then shows like

Morning Joe, Fox News, Sunday, and Real Time with Bill Amar, author of The Selfie Vote,

where millennials are leading America and how Republicans can keep up and the co-host of

The Polsters, a bipartisan weekly podcast. Kristen Soltz-Sanderson, welcome to the show.

Thank you for having me. You know, I'd like to start by talking about your book, The Selfie Vote,

which was how I was actually introduced to your work. And of course, the book focuses on millennial voters,

or at least I guess you could say potential voters, given how many millennials don't actually vote.

So I was wondering, why did you decide to write a book about millennials and what did you find out about them?

I decided to write a book about millennials because as someone who was in my mid-20s in around the time of Barack Obama's election, I realized that I started noticing friends would ask me, Kristen, how can you be a Republican? You seem so nice and normal. And that was distressing to me. You know, I had, upon sort of getting interested in politics, decided that I thought my views lined up most with the Republican Party about role of government and personal responsibility and things like that.

And so all of the sudden I noticed a lot of people that were my peers who had not cared about politics before.

The good news was they were getting

engaged, but the bad news was, is they couldn't fathom why someone would join my party. And when the

exit polls came back, you know, of course, it showed Barack Obama won young voters by a two-to-one

margin. So I wrote my master's thesis in grad school on what had happened to sort of drive younger

voters away from the GOP.

And I found that an awful lot of people in my own party sort of think that it's normal to

lose young voters by huge margins.

They think, well, young people are always really progressive and when and when they get

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