When Republicans and Democrats agree on a structural complaint in 2026, that's not a polling blip — it's a pressure point. Record-cycle spending, accelerated by Citizens United's 2010 removal of aggregate limits on independent expenditures, has produced a system voters across the spectrum have stopped defending. The strategic read: any candidate willing to run hard on public financing or disclosure mandates has a genuine cross-party opening — if they have the discipline not to squander it on messaging that sounds like good-government wallpaper.