Outside the Beltway

A desperate re-election gambit that has no impact on the outcome.

Another unwelcome milestone that magical thinking won’t fix.

Usually candidates don’t talk about how bad things are across the country while appealing to be re-elected.

Alabama’s junior Senator needs my help.

Trump’s leadership style encapsulated.

The state polling is not lining up along usual patterns.

Chuck Schumer and company sent a signal to their base against a fait accompli.

Let’s just say Rasmussen is an extreme outlier.

Less Trumpy Trump still Trump.

Lots of places in the US don’t make it easy.

Same endless song, different verse.

Not the flu.

The Lone Star state is making up its own rules.

Election Day is increasingly a myth.

Some surprising poll numbers.

Comparing the White House’s approach to that of sports leagues on testing.

Reminders from a perusal of the news.

A Blue Wave still looks quite likely.

Some judicial alphabet soup in dialog with my co-blogger.

After weeks of evasion, the frontrunner hints at a compromise policy.

Instead of a second presidential debate, we got competing TV shows.

Thinking about what we might know on the night of the election.

Rudy Giuliani and a hack tabloid are trying to revive the Burisma story.

A legally correct ruling based on a lie.

Great journalism can result in lousy history.

The Emoluments Clause is essentially unenforceable.

He has the largest lead of any challenger since modern polling began in 1936.

No, our topic infectious disease expert did not endorse President Trump.

Trump continues to lag.

If we embrace the Founders to justify the present, let’s think about what we are doing.

I couldn’t help myself.

I’m sorry, what?

A clever political gambit that raises real issues.

It’s not a cult but not exactly mainstream, either.

The infected guy wants a face-to-face debate.

His campaign now wants more live debates.

Kamala Harris wins by not losing.

The rules for counting votes matter.

Trump’s favorite pollster has some bad news for him.

One of these really isn’t like the other.

A little comparative politics.

The lawyers can’t clean up the mess left by the President’s sudden incapacity.

Some numbers from PA and a CNN poll that gives Biden a huge lead.

Is that wise?

Having the topic of political reform start to seep into pop culture is a good thing.

A parody of a joke.

No masks, no distancing, no caution.

A pandemic and a government populated with people in their 70s and 80s.