What impact would this have on the president s ability to fill vacancies under that kind of situation . Hard to know up front except it obviously suggests that the nominees will be more to the center rather than to the right or left depending on who win it is white house. But i think that part of that will depend on the mandate the new president has, if theres sort of a first nature to the next appointment. All sorts of questions like that. Any additional questions . Thanks very much. Could i take you up on your offer when you said you might look ahead to some of the cases to come and some of the thoughts of what the block busters might be . There are three of them a pretty good term. This last term will be hard to beat. I remember a couple years ago we had the First Health Care case. We said thats the term of the century. Then a first go at marriage. The court ended up not answering but we thought that was the term of the century then when you add health care and marriage together we had a term of the century its going to be hard to follow. But we have three things. A second look at fisher, and that sure makes you think that there are at least four votes and an attempt to put kennedy on the spot. Kennedy who has never voted to uphold an affirmative Action Program about whether the university of texas hybrid affirmative Action Program satisfies strict scrutiny again. And here again well have a look at what the court means by strict scrutiny. Second case, just granted brought by mike, represents a very serious challenge to the way public unions are run whether nonmembers of public unions can be forced nonetheless to pay for fees that the unions use for collective bargaining activities that may be said to violate the First Amendment rights of the union members. And theats both a very interesting and substantial question and a quite consequential case. Then theres a really interesting case that you might have thought we would know the answer to already but we dont. What does one person one vote mean . Whom do you count to draw districts . Do you count every Single Person . Which is what the census does . Or do you count the people who are eligible to vote . And this too matters a lot. At the moment most places count every Single Person but that means in urban centers off lot of children, people who are here legally from abroad but not entitled to vote, you have undocumented people. You have people whose right to vote has been stripped from them because theyre felons. You have prisoners. So you have vastly different voting power in different districts by voting power you mean eligible voters. And so the courts agreed to decide now which way that goes. And here again, you have great political consequences because at the moment urban centers, which tend to be blue, get more voting power than rural place which is tend to be red. And that the court at least conceiveably will recast that map. So thats three pretty good cases. That doesnt include the abortion based on the texas clinic restrictions. Quite surprising having stayed the texas case that they not take it. So there were going to have for the first time in a long time a real look at what real look at what casey means. Any others . Well, those are the big ones that are here right now. I think though the lesson that we saw from this term is that just because the court is willing to look at these cases, look at these very carefully, doesnt mean that the outcome is a fait accompli. Thats the lesson we get particularly from the texas versus Inclusive Communities case, the disparate impact howsing case. There we saw the court going out of its way to really look at that issue twice granting sert on the issue, twice having the chance to hear it, snatched from their grasp by those litigants who dismissed or settled their cases. And then finally a chance to look at it and saying, looks like all the appeals courts that have considered this issue for the past four years were right. Never mind. So yeah, were going to see those cases. Keep in mind that were going to see the results of those cases no later than june of a president ial election year. So the kinds of intuitional concerns about rocking the boat and bgs a very Disruptive Force in society and in the political system may be even more heavily on the justices minds than they are right now. For instance, if they a one man one vote ruling, depending on what they say coming right before a big election, might be the kind of thing that slightly increases from 0. 1 to 0. 11 the importance of the Supreme Court as a political issue. 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Brian this week, our guest is conservative pollster, commentator, and pollster Kristen Soltis anderson, author of the selfie vote where millennials are leading america and how republicans can keep up. Brian Kristen Soltis anderson in your book, why did you tell us there have been one billion downloads on something called candy crush . Kristen folks used to be kristen folks used to be focused on the television so political advertising became political advertising became focused there. Technology has changed so that not just 20yearolds, but of 60yearol not just 20yearolds, but of 60yearolds, what are they looking at . Their phones. For folks in the political world who want to reach into the future, understand what the future of political advertising will look like, things like candy crush or the latest game theres always something new popping up. Finding ways to get your message in front of people where they are paying attention is important. For a lot of folks who have been doing this for a while, they are used to advertisements on tv which is fine. Lots of folks still watch tv. Understanding the future of politics is understanding where attention is being paid. Brian why did you write this book . Kristen as someone who is young and republican, i came to discover in 2008 that no longer was it weird that i was a young person interested in politics, it was weird that i was a young republican. I wanted to get at the heart at why our generation thought that being republican wasnt for them. They thought that conservative ideas were not for them. It began as a masters thesis at johns hopkins, and eventually began to evolve into something bigger. As more and more republicans came to the realization that it would be hard to win elections if they are not reaching the next generation. Brian you grew up in florida. You talk about being a member of a Computer Club. Why did you get involved in a Computer Club . Kristen my dad is an electrical engineer. He was always focused on teaching his daughters about science, math, technology. None of us became engineers but i always had that exposure when i was young. I loved playing computer games. When i was a teenager, i was taking my magazine and programming the quizzes like what kind of prom dress should you wear . I would program them in basic into my computer so that instead of writing on my magazine, i would add up the score on a computer. I was always interested in technology. That has continued now. Even now i am not myself a software engineer, that interests me. Brian Echelon Insights is what . Kristen it is a Research Firm they try to predict who will win and they get it wrong. They dramatically overestimated mitt romneys chances. During the midterms, it was the democrats who got it wrong. They underestimated the republican landslide. I am somebody younger and i want to know what his next. They are not answering cell phones when we called so we have to find new sources of data that understand Public Opinion. Echelon is all about that, merging that traditional Opinion Research with the things we can learn from analyzing social media, analyzing consumer data. There is so much information that we give off when we go to a store and swipe the credit card or tweet, and that information can be analyzed to give us clues about what people think, like, and believe. Brian are you representing any existing politicians . Kristen we are focused mostly on nonprofits and clients dealing with ideas. We have done work in the past for campaigns and party groups but at the moment, we are waiting to see which candidates in 2016 are going to be interested in using data. Brian you went to the university of florida, what did you major in . Kristen political science. I already had a job waiting for me in washington, d. C. They hired me the summer before i graduated and it got me the exposure to the world of polling and research i originally wanted to be a press secretary i watched too much west wing and that was where my interest was. I was directed toward, hey, you should check out polling because i was good with numbers and spreadsheets and data but i loved communication so polling is the synthesis of those worlds. Brian we have some video that will trigger something you have written about. You can tell us why you think this particular person is important and good at what he does. [video clip] lets level the playing field. Programming is not so foreign. It is something most of us can do right now with just a bit of guidance. Programming is about telling a computer what to do. You need to express yourself distinctly and tersely and specifically because computers are dumb devices. It can only do what you tell it to do. So if we were to pick you can tell a computer to do something, say something. This would represent a statement. You can tell a computer to do something conditionally if something is true, go in this direction. You can tell a computer to repeat its self multiple times and do something again and again. Brian who is that man . Kristen he is a professor of Computer Science at harvard. He teaches an introductory Computer Science classes that huge numbers of graduates are interested in taking because they all want to be the next mark zuckerberg, or they understand that getting the world of technology and Computer Sciences is critical in any field in which you want to succeed. I had the opportunity to take cs50 during the fall, and they encourage us to take courses with undergraduates. You can take courses in art history, but i signed up for cs50 and everybody told me i was crazy but i enjoyed it and i completed the class and got a certificate and the way i got the certificate was through something called tedx where folks can take classes online. I get as much as the real experience as possible without actually being there in cambridge on harvards campus. I write about it in the book because in cs50 we understand how technology and data is going to be playing a role in the future of politics and a host of different industries. It is an interesting way of delivering skills and knowledge. Nowadays it is a model of a Fouryear College degree where you spend a lot of time in the classroom and live on campus that is no longer the norm. The nontraditional Student Experience is now the norm, is the condition. I think that republicans and democrats have not really addressed the question of, how do we deliver skills effectively to people who want to learn about Computer Science, who want to learn how to become a nurse who want to learn about any industry where you can pickup skills . So i really think that on this question of, who is providing Affordable College education . You are going to hear a lot of discussion about that. I think particularly from democrats will talk about the issue of student loans. In the book, i suggest that focusing on the loan issue is pretty narrow, that is about debt management. I think there is an opportunity is focusing on how we deliver skills and education in a costeffective, nontraditional way. Cs50 is proving to be a great example of how folks hundreds of thousands of people have access to taking this class and gaining skills and getting jobs in the technical World Without having to take out tens of thousands of dollars of loan debt. It is a model i would like politicians to Pay Attention to. Brian harvard is not known to be a bastion of republicanism. Kristen they were very nice to me. Brian why did you go there and what did you find among the students . Any republicans . Kristen there are some republicans. I was assigned six students to work with me, all of whom are very gracious and helpful. Harvard has a republican club. I was very honored to be able to speak with them early on in the semester. I think what is interesting about being a republican at harvard is, your beliefs are constantly being challenged but i think that makes you stronger i think the fact that you are constantly having to battle do ideological battle with the folks in your dorm i think it makes you better. Brian between two ferns. Here is a clip you refer to in your book. [video clip] zach what did you come here to plug . President obama i would not be with you if i didnt have something to plug. Have you heard of the Affordable Care act . Zach i heard about it. Thats the thing that doesnt work. Why would you get the guy who created zune to create your website . President obama it works great, and millions of americans have already gotten Health Insurance plans and what we want is for people to know that you can get Affordable Health care. Most Young Americans right now are not covered. The truth is that they can get coverage for what it costs to pay your cell phone bill. Zach is this what they mean by drones . President obama a lot of young people think they are invincible. Zach did you say invisible . President obama no, no. Not invisible, invincible. Meaning that they dont think they can get hurt. Zach i understand that nobody can be invisible president obama i understand that. Brian why did you refer to this . Kristen this is a video of obama going on a video podcast with Zach Galifianakis where he tries to encourage young people to sign up for Health Insurance. When the Affordable Care act was launched, one fear was that younger folks were not enrolled in Health Insurance because they think, i dont really need it. The odds of getting sick are low. If the insurance pools were only older americans, it could become financially unsustainable. The administration was focused on young people. This is one of the ways president obama went about doing it. This show gets huge viewership. After he went on this web show it was the number one driver of traffic to healthcare. Gov. It was important that the president do this because the website had a rocky rollout. The website kept crashing. He had to go convince young people, im sorry, please try again to make sure that the law could succeed. He wasnt just doing an interview on the sunday morning talk show, he wasnt doing an interview on the network news. He was going to this really silly comedy podcast and trying to deliver this message and millions of people saw it. Brian what was Zach Galifianakis up to when we watched . Kristen luckily, you are being much kinder to me. It is part of the joke, he is a comedian. He is kind of pretending that the president is boring, giving him a hard time. It is a variation on the shtick at Stephen Colbert used to have. Putting on this persona like, he is unimpressed with the guest and needles them over things they believe. Brian what is your message to republicans . Kristen my message is that it is ok to be funny, it is ok to put yourself in situations where you can take a joke or in here the president was ok with jokes about the website being quote, created by the guy who made the zune. That is a tough interview. The president knew that being able to poke fun at yourself acknowledging imperfection rather than putting up a front was the better strategy. Brian what is a zune . Kristen it is microsofts version of the ipod that did not sell particularly well. Brian lets go back to the debate to 1996. Bob dole, who is a funny man but this is not a funny moment. [video clip] senator dole this is important business, this election. I ask for your support, i ask for your help. If you want to get involved, tap into my homepage www. Dolecamp96org. Thank you. God bless america. [applause] brian one interesting thing is that bill clinton laughed. Not laughed at him, but it sounded like he thought it was a pretty smart move. What was that . Kristen that was the first time a candidate mentioned a web url in remarks, he was directing people to his website. He missed the dot. On one hand, it is an incredible historic moment. I a did an interview with one of the tech consultants for the Dole Campaign who said, as soon as he saw that clip, he knew the website would not be able to handle the traffic because this was 1996. He also talked about how because doles website missed the dot, it was marred with this mistake. I mentioned some of the News Coverage at the time was, dole tried to do something to reach out to the int