uncharacteristically earnest/warm & fuzzy: I love my job as an academic & am reminded of this every time I experience the high of sitting down with a possible new idea that emerged from reading.

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Ramaswamy has produced an attack ad weaponizing the rape of his opponent, Amy Acton, when she was 12 years old. It features Acton’s mother, who abandoned Acton after she was raped by her step-father, fleeing the state with her husband. Here is the corporate money helping fund that ad.

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But as a reminder - young voters, first-time voters, oters without strong partisan attachments etc - these voters are uniquely persuadable! Not just on who to vote for, but whether to vote or not. It is *never* too late to do persuasion work for young people! allianceforyouthpower.org/yougov-2026/

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And by the way, among those young people who actually voted for Trump in 2024... he's down to about 65-35 approve-disapprove. Among young people who *voted for him.* Generally, Trump is deeply, deeply underwater among young people.

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In Alliance for Youth Power's battleground state polling, we're finding 18-29 men and young women overwhelmingly favor Democrats. The gender gap has closed at least moderately, in Democrats' favor. allianceforyouthpower.org/yougov-2026/

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