Outside the Beltway

We’ve just had an election, not psychoanalysis.

Why it’s all over but the crying.

He needs one more state to hit the magic 270.

The expectations game will be especially tricky this year.

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

Predicting a Biden wave.

Trump has pulled ahead in some individual polls but Biden continues to have a commanding lead.

When early voting meets tragedy.

Will he be a uniter or a divider?

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

A defensible distinction could give way to a Constitutional crisis.

Up is down. Down is up.

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

A Blue Wave still looks quite likely.

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

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.

A fundamental building block of our system makes it nearly impossible to fix.

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.

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.

The latest FNC poll has more good news for Biden.

The President has hit rock bottom.

Trump’s nonsense campaign against vote-by-mail could cost the GOP votes.

The President may be right on voting by mail.

We were much slower and have higher non-conformity than countries that have it under control.

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

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

It’s just not immediate.

More dominoes are falling. They won’t be the last.

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.

Joementum.

The Commonwealth is the first state in the nation to issue regulations.

The President has reportedly invoked the Insurrection Act.

Likely the right outcome but I wish I political motivation weren’t the default presumption.

Jo Rae Perkins may be a nut, but she won a four-person primary.

Presidents have appointed loyalists since time immemorial. Has this one gone too far?

Richard Burr, Jim Inhofe, David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler should go to jail.

The wagons have been circled.

Not a great night for the former New York major. But he still has $54.5 billion to comfort him.

A bad night for Bloomberg and Warren has radically reshaped the race.

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

One side is arguing over rules while the other is focused on consequences.

Despite Pompeo’s assurances, we are already seeing consequences for the Suleimani killing.

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

Yesterday’s hearing before the House Judiciary Committee did a good job of explaining how the facts of the Ukraine scandal meet the Constitution’s definition of impeachable offenses.

The impeachment inquiry moves to the House judiciary Committee this morning.