Outside the Beltway

The Pundit’s Fallacy meets opportunism.

The slow Alaska count came out as expected.

A One Act Play

Her Democratic opponent has conceded.

Biden inches closer to 270.

10 more Electoral votes.

Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!

A FiveThirtyEight-inspired message from the Democrats doesn’t compute.

Disconnected representation in action.

Up is down. Down is up.

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

The rules for counting votes matter.

Whether the delusions of a madman or a deliberate scheme to poison the waters, there’s cause for concern.

Forecasters give Democrats better than even odds of a majority.

Injecting data into the conversation.

The President has hit rock bottom.

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

A movement that has grown beyond recognition.

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.

The gaslighting will continue until morale improves.

The state of American debate is not strong.

As the President becomes less popular, there are signs he’s losing support from his co-partisans in Congress.

What if instead of the unit rule, states doled out electoral voter based on the proportion of votes each slate of electors received?

SCOTUS and “faithless electors.”

Ego trumps all?

Nate Silver now gives Biden an 87% chance of winning the nomination outright.

Competing in fourteen states plus overseas territories in one day is expensive.

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

Surprising news from an unsurprising process.

New Jersey Congressman Jeff van Drew, elected just last year as a Democrat, is now a Republican.

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

Lindsey Graham is the latest Senator to make clear that he’s already made up his mind on impeachment.

Anyone who doubts that Republicans would fill a Supreme Court vacancy in 2020 is being incredibly naive.

Many of the 2020 Democratic candidates for President are arguing that the caucus process itself is unfair and undemocratic. They’re right.

A big win for ranked-choice voting in the Big Apple as voters approve a referendum that will bring ranked-choice voting to the nation’s most populous city.

The next steps in the impeachment process are relatively easy to predict.

Much like it did during the McCarthy Era, the Republican Party has to decide what side of history it wishes to be on. The right side, or the wrong side.

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

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.

Staring in 2020 the winner in Maine will be the majority preference.

The 10th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled last week that states cannot punish electors who fail to follow the will of the majority of voters n their state or state laws purporting to direct how they should vote.

The failure of Republicans and conservatives to denounce the President’s racism reveals everything that has gone wrong with the “right” in the Trump Era.

The Trump Administration is warning Congress that we will need to raise the debt ceiling by September. Congress should take this as an opportunity to eliminate it entirely.

Susan Collins hasn’t officially announced her intentions for 2020 just yet, but she looks like she’s running for re-election. If she does, she appears to be facing some political headwinds.

The Kaine-Udall amendment has met its predictable end.

Maine has become the eighth state to pass a law allowing terminally ill the choice to bring their lives to a dignified end.

Texas has become the latest state to eliminate red-light cameras amid increasing evidence that they are largely counterproductive.

For 2020, Kansas Democrats are making some interesting changes to how they will have a say in he race for the Democratic nomination.