Reorganizing Beyond the Beltway
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it's about creating a federal government that sets a clear, national
competitiveness strategy to meet our global economic challenges and then
empowers local communities and businesses to deliver the desired outcomes.
By
Dan Carol
and Morley
Winograd
Huffington
Post
May
4, 2011
Marriagephobic
Millennials
While more
than half of Millennials (52 percent) say
that being a good parent “is one of the most
important things in life,” less than a third
(30 percent) say the same about having a
successful marriage. This indicates, Pew
says, a 22-point gap between the two items.
By Galia Myron
DemoDirt.com
March 22, 2011
Which Deficits Do Millennials Care About?
"Unlike
older generations that are ready to engage
in pitch fork battles to protect their own
perquisites and power, Millennials
consistently look for win-win solutions to
the challenges the country confronts. "
By Morley Winograd and Michael D. Hais
Millennial
Makeover Blog
December 9, 2010
Will Ideology or Pragmatism Rule American
Politics?
"Those
Millennials that did vote preferred Democratic
candidates in almost all contested elections and
approved of Barack Obama’s handling of his job
as president by a 60% to 40% margin. In contrast
to all other generations, Millennials remain
overwhelmingly Democratic and liberal in their
political orientation. "
By Morley Winograd and Michael D. Hais
Millennial
Makeover Blog
November 22, 2010
America is a Different Country in 2010
"Rather than being surprised every two years
by the changing politics of a nation altered by
a rapidly changing demography, pundits would be
wiser to anticipate that American politics is
going to keep changing and evolving every two
years, and will never again look like the
politics of the 20th century."
By Morley Winograd and Michael D. Hais
Millennial
Makeover Blog
October 19, 2010
Generational Economics
"Millennials believe in trusting one
another and sharing ideas in order to come up
with the best results for the entire group.
That's why the country is more likely to find
economic ideas that call for community action
and local initiative more attractive than those
being pushed by House Republicans. "
By Michael D. Hais and
Morley Winograd
Millennial Makeover Blog
September 14, 2010
Millennials Are Looking
for Something Completely Different
"Millennials
are not interested in letting ideological
posturing stand in the way of “getting stuff
done,” as they like to say. Their generation’s
idealism – in sharp contrast to the more
ideological approach adopted by Boomers – is
characterized by a pragmatic impulse focused on
finding practical solutions to problems."
By Michael D. Hais and
Morley Winograd
NewGeography.com
August 12, 2010
Democrats, Not
Independents or Republicans, Will Decide
Who Wins in 2010 and Beyond
"This is a quite different situation from 1994,
the last time there was a so-called midterm
"wave" election in which the GOP wrested control
of Congress from the Democratic Party. "
Data Matters
Michael Hais' NDN Blog
July 13, 2010
What
Wave?
...while it
is true that
attitudes
toward the
Democratic
Party have
declined
during 2010,
contrary to
1994 the
Republican
Party is not
seen as a
viable
alternative
by most
voters.
Millennial
Makeover
Blog
By
Morley
Winograd
May 30, 2010
Waiting For
A Wave That
May Never
Come
Of course,
none of this
should be
taken as an
indication
that the
road forward
to November
for the
Democrats
will be
smooth and
easy.
Historically,
during a
president's
first term
his party
suffers on
average a
midterm loss
of about 25
seats in the
House and
half dozen
in the
Senate. Only
once, in
1934 when
voters
overwhelmingly
endorsed
Franklin
Roosevelt
and his New
Deal, did a
president's
party make
first term
midterm
congressional
gains.
NDN Blog
Data Matters
By
Michael Hais
May 27, 2010
21st Century
Electorate's
Heart is in
the Suburbs
Rather than
fighting
this desire
on the part
of America’s
21st Century
Electorate
to live
comfortably
in the
suburbs,
politicians
of all
stripes
should find
ways to
embrace it
and advocate
policies
that reflect
our new
economic
realities.
For
instance,
rather than
insisting on
higher
density
housing and
light rail
systems as
the only
answer to
the nation’s
appetite for
foreign oil,
the federal
government
should adopt
tax
incentives
that
encourage
telecommuting.
Millennial
Makeover
Blog
By
Morley
Winograd
May 17, 2010
Email is so
over
In a decade
or so, CIO’s
will look
back at this
time of
transition
and smile at
the
antiquated
way business
was
transacted
before
mobile
computing
and social
networks
became
commonplace.
For those
old enough
to remember,
it will seem
very similar
to the way
business was
transformed
by another,
now
obsolete,
technology,
email.
Millennial
Makeover
Blog
By
Morley
Winograd
May 9, 2010
Shop... And
Make the
World a
Better Place
A recent
Nielsen
study of
generational
shopping
habits found
that
Millennials
make the
fewest trips
of any
generation
to any and
all retail
settings-from
big box
stores to
the local
drugstore-but
really enjoy
in-person
shopping on
those
relatively
fewer
occasions
when they
engage in
it. "On a
typical
mission,
they know
how to find
what they
need and are
less likely
to shop the
entire
store," the
report
concluded,
reflecting
the
generation's
penchant for
going online
to research
their
purchases
before they
take offline
action. But
once they
have a smart
phone in
their hands,
and about
one out of
every three
Millennials
already owns
one, this
distinction
between
virtual and
physical
buying
behaviors
will blur
almost to
the point of
extinction.
NDN Blog
By
Morley
Winograd
April 5, 2010
Raising the
Quality and
Lowering the
Cost of
Education
NDN's newest
survey
research
indicates
that
Millennials,
unlike all
other
generations,
rate
education
generally,
and the cost
of a college
education
specifically,
as two of
the top four
critical
problems
they believe
government
must address
and fix.
Clearly,
Millennials,
like older
generations,
see a need
to improve
public
education in
America.
Millennial Makeover's NDN Blog
By Winograd
and Hais
March 17, 2010
Democrats
Rock the
Vote on
Campuses
Almost all
students on
campus today
are members
of the
Millennial
Generation
and bring
that
generation's
commitment
to civic
engagement
and
consensus
decision
making to
the
political
process.
Unlike many
members of
Generation X
or Baby
Boomers who
preceded
them, a
majority of
Millennials
believes in
using
government
to help
address
societal
problems and
economic
inequality.
These
philosophic
touchstones
form the
basis of
their
political
identification
and belief
system.
Huffington
Post
By Michael
Hais and
Morley
Winograd
February 22,
2010
Three
Strikes and
You're Out
Martha
Coakley was
the kind of
messenger
that
Democrats
used to look
for in the
1990s —
tough on
crime,
connected to
the party
establishment,
and with
elective
experience
to command
respect. But
that formula
didn’t work
for Hillary
Clinton in
2008 and it
didn’t work
so well this
time either.
Millennial Makeover's NDN Blog
By Winograd
and Hais
January 21, 2010
California’s
Educational
Earthquake
The tectonic
plates of
the nation's
educational
debate
shifted
dramatically
in
California
last week
when its
supposedly
dysfunctional,
lopsidedly
Democratic
legislature
passed the
most far
reaching
educational
reform
program in
the nation,
and
California's
"post-partisan"
Republican
Governor
happily
signed it.
Millennial Makeover's NDN Blog
By Winograd
and Hais
January 18, 2010
A
Generation’s
Loyalty May
Be at Stake
Millennials,
more than
one-third of
whom lack
health
insurance,
will be
watching
closely to
see if their
needs are
addressed in
the final
version of
health care
reform,
something
Millennials
support to a
far greater
extent than
any other
generation.
Of course,
failure to
pass
meaningful
reform may
well sound a
death knell
for the
emerging
Democratic
majority
that the
Obama
campaign
created last
year.
Millennial Makeover's NDN Blog
By Winograd
and Hais
December 2, 2009
For Millennials, It’s the Economy Stupid
The lack of
jobs was particularly acute among adult
members of the Millennial Generation (18-27
year olds), 61% of whom said that they or
someone close to them was jobless recently.
A clear plurality (46%) says that the “job
situation” rather than rising prices (27%),
problems in the financial markets (14%) and
declining real estate values (7%) is their
major economic worry.
Millennial Makeover's NDN Blog
By Winograd and Hais
December 1, 2009
The Four M's
of
Millennial
Politics
There
are many
things that
are
different
about this
newest
generation
of
Americans.
At this
point,
Millennials
identify as
Democrats by
nearly 2:1
and are the
first
generation
in forty
years to
contain more
self-perceived
liberals
than
conservatives.
Millennials
are
positioned
to make the
Democrats
the majority
party for
decades. But
Democrats
cannot take
them for
granted
because in
one very
fundamental
way
Millennials
are no
different
than any
older
generation.
Millennial Makeover's NDN Blog
By Winograd
and Hais
November 10, 2009
Who Will
Party with
Whom in
2010?
Democrats,
instead of
running away
from
President
Obama,
should
follow his
lead in
offering
even more
positive
ways that
government
can protect
middle class
Americans
from the
worst
excesses of
the free
market.
That may be
the opposite
of
Libertarianism,
but it's
just what
the public
wants.
Millennial Makeover's NDN Blog
By Winograd
and Hais
November 4, 2009
Deeds Done
The likely
defeat today
of Democrat
Creigh Deeds
by
Republican
Bob
McDonnell in
Virginia's
gubernatorial
election
sends an
important
message to
both
political
parties, but
it's not
clear either
one will
listen to
it.
Millennial Makeover's NDN Blog
By Winograd and Hais
November 3, 2009
Energizing
Millennials:
Key to 2010
Democratic
Victory
The latest
unemployment
numbers and
poll results
have led
most
observers to
predict a
major
setback for
Democrats in
the 2010
Congressional
elections.
But a year
is a
lifetime in
politics and
much can
change
between now
and then to
influence
next year's
vote.
Millennial Makeover's NDN Blog
By Winograd and Hais
October 7, 2009
The
Civility Crisis and How to Cure It
Republicans,
who were quick to compare the actions of
their party's fringe elements to harsh,
sometimes over the top Democratic criticism
of former President George W. Bush missed
the qualitative difference between
expressing strong policy disagreement with
the opposition, which is fair game in any
political season, and taking guns to
Presidential appearances. Ironically,
Republicans are guilty of the same "moral
equivalency" judgment error that they
accused Democrats who minimized Communist
war crimes in Vietnam and the actions of
urban rioters of in the 1960s of committing.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi was closer to the truth
when she likened today's vitriolic rhetoric
to the hate speech directed toward gays in
San Francisco in the 1970s, but she failed
to pursue the historical analogy far enough.
Millennial Makeover's NDN Blog
By Winograd and Hais
September
30, 2009
Obama Gets an A, Dems an
Incomplete
Back to school week was
a good one for President
Obama, but Congress
still has some lessons
to learn. After telling
the nation’s
schoolchildren to study
hard, stay in school,
get good grades, and be
unwilling to accept
failure, the President
directed a very similar
message to Congress as
he lectured them on the
need to pass health care
reform in this session.
The end result was a
significant rise in
Obama’s poll numbers. CNN
and the
Democracy Corps
questioned voters before
the president’s
congressional address
and then again
immediately afterward.
The results leave little
doubt that Democrats are
simply glad that the
president is sounding
like the man they put in
the White House last
November.
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millennial makeover
Daily Kos blog
By
Millennial Makeover
Aug 28, 2009
It’s Time for Washington Democrats to Break the Groundhog Day Cycle
In the 1993 movie,
Groundhog Day,
self-centered TV
weathercaster, Phil
Connors (Bill Murray) is
doomed to continuously
repeat the events of his
life. He finally ends
the never-ending cycle
and wins the love of his
life only after he finds
the courage to break
free of the personal
limitations of his past.
Like Phil Connors, many
Washington pundits and
politicians act as if
they and the country are
destined to keep on
reliving the battle over
health care from the
Clinton era. But it’s
not 1993 and it’s
finally time to break
the Groundhog Day
pattern of American
politics. The United
States has moved to a
new political era driven
by the emergence of
America’s next civic
generation, Millennials
(born 1982-2003),
Daily Kos blog
By
Millennial Makeover
Aug 28, 2009
The GOP's "empathy"
problem with millennials
Now there's a stupid
little saying in the
conservative world that
"if you're a Republican
in your youth, you have
no heart, if you're a
Democrat when you're
older, you have no
brain". It's supposed to
glibly explain away the
more liberal leanings of
younger adults. However,
Reagan won
61 percent of the
youth vote in 1984, and
even Bush Sr.
won it in 1988.
Daily Kos Blog
June 12, 2009
The GOP's Impossible
Dream:
Republicans Can't
Win Without Latino
Support in Millennial
Era
This essay is the first
in a new series that I
will be contrubuting to
NDN. The essays will
examine important and
interesting data from
available public surveys
and surveys commissioned
by NDN and its
affiliates. Themes and
analysis will include
attitudes toward race
and ethnicity, the
economy, foreign affairs
and the Millennial
Generation, but will not
be limited to those
topics.
By Michael Hais
NDN Millennial Makeover
Blog
By Michael
Hais
June
10, 2009
The Millennials can save
baseball
This new
generation is filled
with hardworking
team-player Joe DiMaggio
types.
Today the members of
a new civic generation,
Millennials (born
1982-2003), are just
starting to populate big
league rosters. Already
talented, positive,
team-oriented
Millennials like Dustin
Pedroia, Evan Longoria,
Zack Greinke, Hanley
Ramirez, Chad
Billingsley, and David
Wright are among
baseball's biggest and
most promising stars.
Christian Science
Monitor
By Morley Winograd and
Michael D. Hais
June 1, 2009
Do you get the
Millennial Generation?
Until recently,
MTV didn't – and paid a
price. Millennial
values, typified in "The
Devil Wears Prada," may
surprise you.
MTV's mistake was to
assume that the members
of particular
demographic groups, in
this instance young
people in their
mid-teens through their
mid-20s, behave the same
and hold the same
attitudes at all times.
If only MTV's executives
had gone to the movies
more often, they might
have recognized these
generational changes
much sooner. For baby
boomers (born
1946-1964), a generation
of idealists driven by
strong personal values,
no coming-of-age-movie
captured their
rebellious and
moralistic spirit better
than "The Graduate." The
protagonist, Benjamin
Braddock, is a depressed
loner who rejects his
parents' "plastic"
values. In his dalliance
with Mrs. Robinson,
Benjamin seeks emotional
attachment and deeper
meaning, whereas she is
in the "relationship"
only for physical
release.
Christian Science
Monitor
By Morley Winograd and
Michael D. Hais
May 15, 2009
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