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Avery James retweeted
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Fresh polling from @EchelonInsights has abysmal right track/wrong track numbers for Trump and GOP - worse than they were for Dubya heading into the 2006 buzzsaw
+ Voters now believe Dems are on track to win both the House *and* Senate
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Featuring a classic pollster hedging comment by yours truly:
New @PuckNews
Fresh polling from @EchelonInsights has abysmal right track/wrong track numbers for Trump and GOP - worse than they were for Dubya heading into the 2006 buzzsaw
+ Voters now believe Dems are on track to win both the House *and* Senate
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I find this specific combined attitude to US politics increasingly baffling.
Far better to have a country with some citizens like Medhi Hasan and some politicians elected like Donald Trump than neither.
The Mehdi Hasan Test for immigration to the United States:
People with the views and associations of Mehdi Hasan should be barred from American citizenship.
My latest in @Commentary
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"I shouldn't have to live with any scoundrel or jingoist at all, for it is an offense to citizenship and democracy itself" is an enormously self-pitying worldview to carry around at all times.
Just accept that people are annoying sometimes. This ultimatum is too much.
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Okay in fairness I didn't realize Kirchick had published this earlier this year:
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Avery James retweeted
In all the discourse around AI and math, the pioneering work of Watterson (1991) is underrated
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D+5 generic ballot, which is fun, also quite broad agreement on what would explain GOP loss of Congress if it happens.
Just 12% of Republicans selected not passing the SAVE Act.
NEW POLL: The October 2026 Voter Omnibus is out!
Read for the latest Trump approval numbers, 2026 ballots, view of the parties on issues, and more:
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RT @EchelonInsights: NEW POLL: The October 2026 Voter Omnibus is out!
Read for the latest Trump approval numbers, 2026 ballots, view of t…
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Part of left-wing Zoomer hatred of billionaires is aesthetic. Fiscal success should bring gratitude, shown by talking and dressing seriously.
While their politics have the wisdom of a caveman bashing in the skull of his neighbor for finding wild blueberries, it's a valid point.
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Avery James retweeted
Medicaid is a $900bn/yr program and we have very little idea of where the money is going.
Its long term care benefit has 5 main, largely mutually exclusive, eligibility pathways, and there's essentially no data on the breakdown of enrollment or spending by each.
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Avery James retweeted
Asked our Gen Z community to name politicians grabbing their attention right now.
Here's who they mentioned.
- Nelson Rockefeller
- Donald Trump
- William Scranton
- George Romney
- Prescott Bush
- John Chafee
- Richard Nixon
- John Lindsay
- Christine Todd Whitman
Asked our Gen Z commuinty to name politicians grabbing their attention right now.
Here's who they mentioned.
- Jon Ossoff
- Donald Trump
- Zohran Mamdani
- James Talarico
- Angie Nixon
- Ro Khanna
- Amy Klobuchar
- Sam Forstag
- David Jolly
- Pete Buttigieg
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NYT style is recommending tie-less suits with dress sneakers to disown the cons. Bleak.
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Ezra Klein had this recent interview where he kept saying actually thoughtful things about how politics and aesthetics are interacting and the guest who is supposed to know more about style is flexible on any look and says "I think it's REALLY about power." Straight out of 2017.
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In other words, there is a sense in which a better night for Dems -> center-left elites deem energy politics vindicated -> correlates positively with doing the lame duck permitting reform.
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Of course, long-time followers already know which party you should vote for in the House to get the abundance agenda:
Yes, predictable and funny. Expect more of this next year.
On the other hand, the one example of Abundance legislation he praises in the book (Building Chips in America Act) required most GOP votes + large minority of Dem votes to pass House.
(It was unanimous in the Senate.)
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