Adam Brandon
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Political Independent Strategist | Author | Love/hate the Cleveland Browns, Guardians, and Cavaliers.
Washington, DC
Joined July 2010
Check out the latest polling analysis from @BullfinchGroup and IC Pollster Brett Loyd:
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The honeymoon is over. A new national survey from the Independent Center reveals that a plurality of American adults and registered voters believe key cabinet officials should be replaced—a striking...
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It’s astonishing that the richest country in world history could convince itself that it was plundered by immigrants and trade.
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It’s astonishing that the richest country in world history could convince itself that it was plundered by immigrants and trade. Truly astonishing. From Jeremy Horpedahl who notes: This is from the...
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Happy Veterans Day to all my fellow veterans today! You and your families represent the best of what this country is all about. And your leadership, example and experience are needed now more than ever before. Our community can be an example of unity, patriotism, selflessness
New Independent Americans out now: Gen. Mark Hertling joins @PaulRieckhoff for a discussion on shutdowns, drone wars, & what America needs from its leaders. 🔥 Don't miss this Veterans Week special: https://t.co/djOfpL4v24
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Let's say you take out a $400,000 mortgage loan at 6.25% - and choose a 50-year mortgage instead of 30 yrs. In return for saving $283 monthly, you will pay an extra $421,302 in interest over the life of loan. Or if you sell at 15 yrs, will have paid off just $29,000 in equity.
INGRAHAM: Is a 50 year mortgage really a good idea? TRUMP: It's not even a big deal. You go from 40 to 50 years. All it means is you pay less per month
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This WSJ piece makes clear that the Heritage Foundation’s internal clash over Tucker Carlson and Nick Fuentes isn’t just a think tank problem—it’s a warning for the entire MAGA movement. Principled conservatism can’t survive by ignoring extremism.
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By defending a controversial Tucker Carlson interview, think tank president Kevin Roberts unleashed a flood of discontent in the conservative establishment.
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Peter Thiel: If you graduated in 1970 with no student debt, compare that to the millennial experience: too many people go to college, they don’t learn anything, and they end up with incredibly burdensome debt. Student debt is a version of this generational conflict that I’ve
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@MattZeitlin @brianstelter I spent all Wednesday and Thursday trying to compress my affordability theory into a sentence … and … he just … tweeted it out
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History shows us that having too much debt during an economic downturn leads to a classic, self-reinforcing cycle where: 1) The empire can no longer borrow the money to repay its debts 2) It prints a lot of new money, which devalues the currency and raises inflation 3) Living
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Trouble ahead for GOP in '26 Midterms?
🚨 Economic confidence falls sharply as shutdown impact grows. ✅️ Just 26% of voters say their finances are getting better, and another 39% say they are getting worse. ✅️ That's down sharply from two weeks ago when 31% said better and 31% said worse. ✅️ Voters are now
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Occasional reminder that Democrats' defeat of George Bush's Social Security reform in 2006 has caused taxpayers to miss out on a 366% gain on their money and that many of the architects of that defeat -- Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi -- are still leaders of the Democratic party.
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3 Takeaways for Independent Voters After Yesterday’s Election
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Curb your enthusiasm Democrats and Republicans. The national implications from this week's elections are limited, at best.
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The question for Dems is… Now what? Questions remain for Dem brand and identity for ‘26 and beyond.
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No president in the last 22 years has had more than 12 straight months with an approval rating over 50 percent, and the entire developed world is basically in a protracted convulsion over cost of living concerns and kicking out various bums from office. This is not the only
Seems like the commentary from every election cycle is that voters are in a state of discontent and seeking change.
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Sears ran a single-issue campaign with $10 million in venomous anti-trans ads (a 41% issue in the state). She ran nothing on the economy, jobs, taxes, schools, health, or roads/highways. The result is a statewide bloodbath all the way down ballot. Perhaps there's a lesson here.
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A helpful post on polarization: Democratic voters shifted left in the 2010s, Republicans did not shift right. But in Congress it's the opposite. So each side can say the other one became extremists
Has the Democratic Party moved left? Yes, on some issues a lot (figure on the left). But the ideology of the Republican party has become far more extreme overall (figure on the right).
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Spanberger and Sherrill are what Democrats hoped Hillary Clinton would be. They are strong and experienced and moderate and female. But they are also veterans of the CIA and Navy—and don’t have the baggage and negatives of the Clinton name. This is what’s possible nationwide
It’s shaping up to be huge night for moderate, white, women Democrats with a background in national security. Spanberger was a CIA officer. Sherrill a Navy chopper pilot. If Democrats want to continue to win statewide and national elections—and get independents and some
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