Outside the Beltway

The primary calendar debate shows, yet again, that parties don’t fully control candidate selection.

South Carolina and Georgia win! Iowa loses! New Hampshire whines!

Trump is still in the GOP driver’s seat.

A moderate Republican almost diagnoses the problem.

Will anyone listen this time?

There are at most eight toss-up states for the 2024 Presidential election.

The idiocy of Iowa and New Hampshire having outsized influence on who is elected President may be ending.

Democrats meet this week to set the 2024 primary calendar.

How much ticket-splitting was there in gubernatorial v. senatorial races this cycle?

Waaaay too little, waaay too late.

The ship is abandoning the sinking rat.

Alas, it probably doesn’t matter.

There was some quiet meddling going on.

Parsing the results thus far.

The New York Post and Wall Street Journal are blasting the losing loser.

The 2020 loser has doubled down on losing.

Boosting weak candidates in the Republican primaries paid off.

The Needle is Broken

Describe the sound made when a sheep explodes.

We likely won’t know on Election Night.

A few stories to consider.

The rules for voting in America vary widely.

Fifty-plus “local” news outlets are a front for David Brock and company.

Makin’ his way the only way he knows how, that’s just a little bit more than the law will allow.

American parties are coordination problems with shared branding.

States are sponsoring an increasingly controversial image.

They’re going to wait until after the midterms to decide whether Iowa and New Hampshire stay at the front of the line.

Stories of note sans write-ups.

It might feel good but it has zero impact on Putin.

Two popular Republican governors have declined a chance to join the World’s Greatest Deliberative Body.

Momentum for ending an undemocratic anachronism is building.

The longtime Senate leader is gone at 82.

Will America re-elect an 82-year-old to the White House?

This man is the face of the post-Trump party.

There will be no religious exemptions. For now, at least.

Lymantria dispar just doesn’t have the same ring to it.

Nonhierarchical parties strike again.

HR1 is a national approach to expanding voter access. State legislatures are trying to both expand and restrict the vote as well.

The annual gathering showed us what the Republican Party would become years ago.

Nevada is mounting a challenge to the rural, lily-white states that always go first in the presidential primary gauntlet.

What we have here is failure to communicate.

The numbers behind recounts.

Fear of a reprise of 2016 is still with us.

Injecting data into the conversation.

More good news for Biden.

The President has hit rock bottom.

McConnell and McCarthy both reject the notion of a delay.

A result of the Trump rally?

A legendary comic is gone.