Outside the Beltway

When early voting meets tragedy.

The ongoing pathetic attempt to create a scandal around Hunter Biden.

Will he be a uniter or a divider?

The iconic actor best known as the original movie James Bond is dead at 90.

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

The iconoclastic journalist is out at the publication he founded.

Fear of a reprise of 2016 is still with us.

It isn’t unidirectional.

A defensible distinction could give way to a Constitutional crisis.

Some guy you never heard of is the guy.

Two prominent media pollsters are hedging their bets.

Sigh.

Rethinking what qualities we should be looking for in Supreme Court Justices.

A whole ‘nother board came to a sane conclusion.

The Army is finally getting its World War II uniforms, one base at a time.

The data on Sweden and Covid-19 don’t fit the media narrative.

The two parties learned different lessons from the last contested election.

Disconnected representation in action.

Up is down. Down is up.

The stakes of losing will be catastrophic. Either way.

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

The Chief of Staff wants to play pretend.

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.

A variety of factors have led to better survival chances for those hospitalized with the disease.

Wherein I revive an old blogging bit…

Not the flu.

The Lone Star state is making up its own rules.