Outside the Beltway

Another unwelcome milestone that magical thinking won’t fix.

The state polling is not lining up along usual patterns.

A national nightmare that may not have changed many minds.

Forecasters give Democrats better than even odds of a majority.

Injecting data into the conversation.

President Trump is historically unpopular and has consistently trailed Joe Biden. He could still win.

The Electoral College is once again having the opposite effect of what its defenders claim.

Trump appears to have been shamed into doing part of his job.

A game wherein one team has to score more points to win than does the other.

The two oldest major party nominees in American history are not inspiring great confidence.

What is more concerning, speculation and war games, or the words of POTUS?

The latest FNC poll has more good news for Biden.

The President has hit rock bottom.

The latest Morning Consult numbers are more bad news for Trump.

Apparently, we’re not supposed to drink the stuff.

A hundred days out, a wave election is the best bet.

Comparisons with 2016 all work against Trump’s re-election.

The trend line shifted this week.

Even Republicans are wondering if President Trump is at his “Katrina moment.”

States can punish Electors who substitute their judgment for those of the voters.

Leadership matters (as does culture).

The evolution of America’s racial language continues.

Joementum.

A case where the rules probably shouldn’t apply to the President.

Racial and xenophobic rhetoric and Covid-19.

The vagaries of our Presidential election mechanism gave us a surprising result in 2016. That’s unlikely this year.

A hero of the Afghan War has succumbed to cancer, aged 41.

It’s time to end this thing.

The race is over but Bernie’s still running.

Lee Boyd Malvo may be eligible for parole in two years.

The primary season has just started. It is almost over.

Surprising news from an unsurprising process.

After months of silence, Maine Senator Susan Collins has announced that she is running for a fifth term in office.

A Justice Department official who had the courage to stand up to the President has died at the age of 87.

An inexcusable assault on an utterly defenseless African-American teenager.

Former Utah Governor Jon Huntsman is running to get his old job back.

A conservative columnist explains how once-Republican states are switching sides.

Former Astronaut Mark Kelly is posing a big challenge to Senator Martha McSally in Arizona.

A Federal Court has struck down the President’s diversion of funds for his border wall.

The United States is withdrawing its small force from Northern Syria, clearing the way for a Turkish invasion that will likely
aim to wipeout the Kurdish forces in the region.

Contrary to the hopes of some, getting rid of Trump isn’t going to purge the GOP of Trumpism.

The impending impeachment of the President is likely to reveal Republicans on Capitol Hill to be the cowards we already knew they were.

For the first time, it’s conceivable that Republicans will turn against the President.

Far-left Democrats in Arizona want to punish Arizona Senator Kyrsten Sinema for being exactly the kind of Senator she said she’d be when she ran for office a year ago.

A new poll finds President Trump trailing his potential Democratic opponents by huge margins among Latino voters.

The Trump Administration from projects to build on-base schools and daycare facilities to spend on his border wall.

Four state GOPs appear poised to cancel their primaries/caucuses.

The map shows the flaws of the Electoral College

Georgia Senator Johnny Isakson will retire at the end of 2019, setting up a contest in 2020 to fill the remainder of his term.

Controversial former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who was voted out of office in 2016 after serving six terms in office, is running to get his old job back.