Over at FutureMajority.com, Michael Connery brings attention to this: Want to be a member of the Democratic National Committee? The DNC Youth Council is now accepting resumes from young people interested in becoming At-Large members. What exactly is an at-large member of the DNC? At-large members are full-scale, policy-shaping members of the Democratic National Committee [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Republican Party’
How Far Has the Republican Party Come? Grading the GOP’s Progress Since November 4
Since their devastating defeat on November 4, Republicans have been working to rebuild and turn the tide of the past two cycles. They took major steps in doing so, including replacing RNC Chairman Mike Duncan with Michael Steele and becoming involved with national organizations such as Rebuild the Party that focus on a complete reformation [...]
Discuss: Collectivism and Conservatism
Recent posts here and elsewhere address issues pertaining to conservatism, the GOP, and identity politics. While each of these opinion pieces discusses different topics, all of them touch on a common theme; the dilemma of collective identity and political allignment. In a post entitled “Kids These Days” here at NextGenGOP, Abby Alger discusses the youth [...]
“New Media” Must Become “Media”
Let’s take a glimpse at the evolution of the role of technology and so-called “new media” in politics. In the early years, there were “Web” departments — for example, my colleague Patrick Ruffini served as the “webmaster” for Bush-Cheney ’04. The new jargon for this role has become “new media,” which typically serves as an [...]
Happy 200th Mr. Lincoln.
Two hundred years is a long time, two or more lifetimes even in this, the first decade of the twenty-first century. Needless to say, much can happen in such a span of time. The U.S. Constitution had at that time been in effect for about 20 years. On February 12, 1809, a son was born to a [...]
Global Harming
In the last few weeks, we’ve seen an increase in the amount of scientists who have publicly challenged the claims of the UN’s IPCC report about Global Warming and the impact humans have had on global climate change. In fact, the US Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works recently came out with a 231-page [...]
Open Forum: What Role Does Social Conservatism Have in the Republican Party?
Over the past few days, I’ve received a couple requests from people asking us to open up NextGenGOP to more policy debate. Since we’re trying to look to the future of the Republican Party, and since policy is a huge question in establishing this future, I’m happy to oblige. Accordingly, I’d like to start out [...]
Mr. Blackwell, College Republicans Aren’t Enough.
Ken Blackwell, in his letter to RNC members announcing his candidacy for chairman, suggests the following as a solution to the Republican Party’s woes among young voters: Expend an unprecedented amount of RNC funding to build vibrant College Republican chapters on every major university campus in the nation and use those chapters as a base [...]