Outside the Beltway

Fear of a reprise of 2016 is still with us.

It isn’t unidirectional.

Two prominent media pollsters are hedging their bets.

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.

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.

Less Trumpy Trump still Trump.

Lots of places in the US don’t make it easy.

Same endless song, different verse.

Election Day is increasingly a myth.

Some surprising poll numbers.

A Blue Wave still looks quite likely.

After weeks of evasion, the frontrunner hints at a compromise policy.

Instead of a second presidential debate, we got competing TV shows.

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

He has the largest lead of any challenger since modern polling began in 1936.

No, our topic infectious disease expert did not endorse President Trump.

Trump continues to lag.

I’m sorry, what?

The infected guy wants a face-to-face debate.

His campaign now wants more live debates.

Kamala Harris wins by not losing.

The rules for counting votes matter.

Trump’s favorite pollster has some bad news for him.

One of these really isn’t like the other.

The lawyers can’t clean up the mess left by the President’s sudden incapacity.

Some numbers from PA and a CNN poll that gives Biden a huge lead.

Is that wise?

A parody of a joke.

A pandemic and a government populated with people in their 70s and 80s.

The inevitable has happened.

A look at several models.

They are standing by as ordered.

Joe Biden’s chances remain extraordinarily good.

Sigh.

More of what we saw last night would be bad for the country.

A national nightmare that may not have changed many minds.

The President is deeply leveraged with no escape in sight.

Not new.
Not surprising.
Still, pretty amazing.

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.

The general election campaign is about to kick off in earnest.