Adam Jentleson
@adamjentleson.bsky.social
Author, Kill Switch from W.W. Norton + a new 📕 coming soon, “Democrats are good” guy, ex-Fetterman COS and Harry Reid Deputy COS
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Zohran's relentless disciplined campaign was truly impressive - he brought every message/issue back to the cost of living and built a model for what bringing attention to a positive affordability message can look like
Proud to have Blue Rose do ad testing for the Zohran IE!
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Proud to have Blue Rose do ad testing for the Zohran IE!
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Ali Mortell on X: ".@ZohranKMamdani ran a phenomenal, authentic campaign focused on affordability. Blue Rose Research is proud to have partnered with @MiddleSeatCo on ad testing and to support their work in helping build the momentum for a more affordable New York. LFG 🌹 https://t.co/0HLenkSSrv" / X
.@ZohranKMamdani ran a phenomenal, authentic campaign focused on affordability. Blue Rose Research is proud to have partnered with @MiddleSeatCo on ad testing and to support their work in helping build the momentum for a more affordable New York. LFG 🌹 https://t.co/0HLenkSSrv
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November 5, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Zohran's relentless disciplined campaign was truly impressive - he brought every message/issue back to the cost of living and built a model for what bringing attention to a positive affordability message can look like
Proud to have Blue Rose do ad testing for the Zohran IE!
x.com/alimortell/s...
Proud to have Blue Rose do ad testing for the Zohran IE!
x.com/alimortell/s...
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Base strategies are good at turning out your base. Just one small problem.
while the story in Virginia and New Jersey was heavily one of relative turnout, with far more votes than usual coming from liberal areas, this was not the case in New York
Republicans showed up in pretty clearly greater numbers than Democrats, motivated to beat Mamdani
but they didn't
Republicans showed up in pretty clearly greater numbers than Democrats, motivated to beat Mamdani
but they didn't
November 5, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Base strategies are good at turning out your base. Just one small problem.
I’d like to introduce you to the Searchlight Institute. We believe that a realignment is not just possible, but necessary – and we are here to make it happen.
https://searchlightinst.substack.com/p/our-mission-to-spark-a-realignment
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September 17, 2025 at 8:31 PM
I’d like to introduce you to the Searchlight Institute. We believe that a realignment is not just possible, but necessary – and we are here to make it happen.
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A good time to say, since we're talking about the Biden years, that @samrosenfeld.bsky.social and I wrote a paper for APSA, to be presented Sat. at noon, about why the Biden-era Democrats turned to policy as their salvation, and why it didn't work out. Here's the first paragraph.
September 11, 2025 at 1:36 PM
A good time to say, since we're talking about the Biden years, that @samrosenfeld.bsky.social and I wrote a paper for APSA, to be presented Sat. at noon, about why the Biden-era Democrats turned to policy as their salvation, and why it didn't work out. Here's the first paragraph.
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On the GEM/Yglesias spat. Morris is right: cong'l election outcomes are shaped by factors far more important the candidate moderation. Old news. But issue positioning is one of the few things that could affect the outcome that can be controlled by a candidate or party in an election year.
August 19, 2025 at 2:59 PM
On the GEM/Yglesias spat. Morris is right: cong'l election outcomes are shaped by factors far more important the candidate moderation. Old news. But issue positioning is one of the few things that could affect the outcome that can be controlled by a candidate or party in an election year.
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Gallego on Mamdani: "It's okay to say 'I disagree with this, this, and this, but I agree with that.' But the idea that we're just gonna throw out people that are really bringing in new ideas to the fold, exciting people, just because they're slightly to the right or to the left of us is dumb."
August 17, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Gallego on Mamdani: "It's okay to say 'I disagree with this, this, and this, but I agree with that.' But the idea that we're just gonna throw out people that are really bringing in new ideas to the fold, exciting people, just because they're slightly to the right or to the left of us is dumb."
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Ya small results = null result is pretty unpersuasive in this context. If the claim is "it doesn't matter if you put up a moderate or a non moderate in a purple district" , that claim seems to be dubious. If the claim is "putting up a moderate doesn't guarantee a win".. fair enough I guess?
August 12, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Ya small results = null result is pretty unpersuasive in this context. If the claim is "it doesn't matter if you put up a moderate or a non moderate in a purple district" , that claim seems to be dubious. If the claim is "putting up a moderate doesn't guarantee a win".. fair enough I guess?
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Whispers: budget is there for a lot more officers and could not add more officers and give a raise and ask Jess Tisch to stay on and buy a lot of good will. And then focus on collective bargaining reform. There are ways to do this like Bernie did.
June 25, 2025 at 4:53 AM
Whispers: budget is there for a lot more officers and could not add more officers and give a raise and ask Jess Tisch to stay on and buy a lot of good will. And then focus on collective bargaining reform. There are ways to do this like Bernie did.
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Kathy Hochul doing public nuclear power generation is pretty cool. She's been kinda great the last few months? www.wsj.com/business/ene...
Exclusive | New York to Build One of First U.S. Nuclear-Power Plants in Generation
Gov. Kathy Hochul has directed the state’s public electric utility to add at least 1 gigawatt of new nuclear-power production.
www.wsj.com
June 23, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Kathy Hochul doing public nuclear power generation is pretty cool. She's been kinda great the last few months? www.wsj.com/business/ene...
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Walz announces that Rep. Melissa Hortman is dead as a result of a "politically motivated assassination"
June 14, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Walz announces that Rep. Melissa Hortman is dead as a result of a "politically motivated assassination"
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I know Yglesias isn't everyone's favorite, but it's amazing how angry many people -often with PhDs-get at a suggestion that there are tradeoffs in politics. Remarkably, many who purport to believe the republic is hanging by a thread are in the "no compromise with the voters!" camp.
I think a really underrated idea for Democrats would be to to try:
(a) Study public opinion accurately
(b) Adopt views, especially on social and moral values issues that align with public opinion
Or they can try this.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/25/u...
(a) Study public opinion accurately
(b) Adopt views, especially on social and moral values issues that align with public opinion
Or they can try this.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/25/u...
May 25, 2025 at 10:39 PM
I know Yglesias isn't everyone's favorite, but it's amazing how angry many people -often with PhDs-get at a suggestion that there are tradeoffs in politics. Remarkably, many who purport to believe the republic is hanging by a thread are in the "no compromise with the voters!" camp.
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This is why I emphasized "study public opinion accurately."
Progressives have invested huge sums of money in misleading polls to convince people that all of their ideas are popular when it isn't true and it's been very damaging.
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Progressives have invested huge sums of money in misleading polls to convince people that all of their ideas are popular when it isn't true and it's been very damaging.
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Nearly every Democratic platform policy is broadly popular and nearly every Republican platform policy is broadly unpopular. I don't understand what you're suggesting would be different. Even if no Democrat held any unpopular position, Fox and Co would claim they did anyway.
May 25, 2025 at 1:49 PM
This is why I emphasized "study public opinion accurately."
Progressives have invested huge sums of money in misleading polls to convince people that all of their ideas are popular when it isn't true and it's been very damaging.
bsky.app/profile/jere...
Progressives have invested huge sums of money in misleading polls to convince people that all of their ideas are popular when it isn't true and it's been very damaging.
bsky.app/profile/jere...
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It shouldn't take a recession for Democrats to win over people who we're helping afford healthcare, food, and housing -- no more sticking our heads in the sand, please!!
Also: finding was replicated by the NYT
Also: finding was replicated by the NYT
May 15, 2025 at 4:47 PM
It shouldn't take a recession for Democrats to win over people who we're helping afford healthcare, food, and housing -- no more sticking our heads in the sand, please!!
Also: finding was replicated by the NYT
Also: finding was replicated by the NYT
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Dave Chappelle nailed it 🤣🎯
April 5, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Dave Chappelle nailed it 🤣🎯
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We’re setting ourselves up for part of the 2028 Dem primary being anti-establishment bro energy that’s rabidly pro-free trade against ideological leftists running back part of Bernie 2016.
I do think blanket opposition to free trade was kind of a luxury belief for a lot of political actors because it was so assumed that the pro-trade coalition was so strong we'd never get something like this. whoops.
April 4, 2025 at 10:53 PM
We’re setting ourselves up for part of the 2028 Dem primary being anti-establishment bro energy that’s rabidly pro-free trade against ideological leftists running back part of Bernie 2016.
A historic show of strength from Senator Booker.
Cory Booker Just Gave The Longest Speech In The History of The US Senate talkingpointsmemo.com/news/cory-bo...
Cory Booker Just Gave The Longest Speech In The History of The US Senate
Only two men have spoken on the floor of the U.S. Senate...
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April 1, 2025 at 11:40 PM
A historic show of strength from Senator Booker.
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forming a theory that the cringier the memes become, the more a story is genuinely breaking through to normal people
They've breached the "I don't talk politics with family" containment, my brother just sent me this.
March 26, 2025 at 3:28 PM
forming a theory that the cringier the memes become, the more a story is genuinely breaking through to normal people
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I'm going to stake out the apparently-edgy-onhere position that the voter shifts described by David Shor here are real, & should be cause for genuinely difficult rethinking of strategies based on no-longer-accurate assumptions about the 'rising American electorate' www.nytimes.com/2025/03/18/o...
Opinion | Democrats Need to Face Why Trump Won
The Democratic pollster David Shor walks through what voter data reveals about the 2024 election — and how the American electorate is shifting.
www.nytimes.com
March 21, 2025 at 12:51 PM
I'm going to stake out the apparently-edgy-onhere position that the voter shifts described by David Shor here are real, & should be cause for genuinely difficult rethinking of strategies based on no-longer-accurate assumptions about the 'rising American electorate' www.nytimes.com/2025/03/18/o...
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This guy is on Bluesky btw. @adamjentleson.bsky.social
Just wildly disingenuous. Harris made it very clear she was in agreement with Trump on Gaza. There is no reason at all to believe she wouldn't be doing the exact same thing if she had won.
She endorsed genocide. The result was fascism. History keeps teaching this lesson and we refuse to learn.
She endorsed genocide. The result was fascism. History keeps teaching this lesson and we refuse to learn.
February 8, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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oh, uh, it turns out that the guy who is accessing your social security right now did cybersecurity for, uh, a Satanic neo-Nazi child porn extortion cult
www.justice.gov/archives/opa...
www.justice.gov/archives/opa...
Member Of Violent 764 Terror Network Sentenced to 30 Years in Prison For Sexually Exploiting a Child
Richard Anthony Reyna Densmore, 47, of Kaleva, Michigan, was sentenced to 30 years in prison for sexually exploiting a child.
www.justice.gov
February 8, 2025 at 2:28 AM
oh, uh, it turns out that the guy who is accessing your social security right now did cybersecurity for, uh, a Satanic neo-Nazi child porn extortion cult
www.justice.gov/archives/opa...
www.justice.gov/archives/opa...
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JD Vance will really be like "you believe in loving thy neighbor? That pales in comparison to my strategy, loving my family first" and then not love his family.
February 7, 2025 at 10:49 PM
JD Vance will really be like "you believe in loving thy neighbor? That pales in comparison to my strategy, loving my family first" and then not love his family.
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One day I will convince liberal friends to just make one minute of video content complaining about Republicans in the time they spend complaining about Democratic inability to stop Republicans from making the world worse. The problem is the Republicans!
January 29, 2025 at 6:11 PM
One day I will convince liberal friends to just make one minute of video content complaining about Republicans in the time they spend complaining about Democratic inability to stop Republicans from making the world worse. The problem is the Republicans!
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Democratic opposition is in fact effective.
🚨 BREAKING: OMB has just issued a memo *rescinding* the previous memo freezing all federal financial assistance programs.
Full text, per government source:
Full text, per government source:
January 29, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Democratic opposition is in fact effective.
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BROWN: Would you support getting rid of school lunch for vulnerable kids and getting rid of childhood cancer research?
REP. MCCORMICK: Philanthropy is where you get most of your money for childhood cancer research. When you talk about school lunches, hey, I worked my way through high school.
REP. MCCORMICK: Philanthropy is where you get most of your money for childhood cancer research. When you talk about school lunches, hey, I worked my way through high school.
January 28, 2025 at 4:18 PM
BROWN: Would you support getting rid of school lunch for vulnerable kids and getting rid of childhood cancer research?
REP. MCCORMICK: Philanthropy is where you get most of your money for childhood cancer research. When you talk about school lunches, hey, I worked my way through high school.
REP. MCCORMICK: Philanthropy is where you get most of your money for childhood cancer research. When you talk about school lunches, hey, I worked my way through high school.