Outside the Beltway

All the major outlets are finally acknowledging the obvious.

We have a President-Elect.

Hopefully, we can finally declare a President-Elect today.

The lies aren’t working anymore.

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.

Last night amplifies a long pattern.

A lot to think about, not a lot of conclusions.

It’ll be days before we know the final 2020 results but a resounding repudiation is unlikely.

The expectations game will be especially tricky this year.

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

Trump needs them both.

Some thoughts on voter enthusiasm and EV scenarios.

When early voting meets tragedy.

Will he be a uniter or a divider?

Fear of a reprise of 2016 is still with us.

Two prominent media pollsters are hedging their bets.

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

Another unwelcome milestone that magical thinking won’t fix.

The state polling is not lining up along usual patterns.

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.

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.

Trump appears to have been shamed into doing part of his job.

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.

What is more concerning, speculation and war games, or the words of POTUS?

The latest FNC poll has more good news for Biden.

The President has hit rock bottom.

The latest Morning Consult numbers are more bad news for Trump.

Apparently, we’re not supposed to drink the stuff.

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

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

The trend line shifted this week.

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.

Leadership matters (as does culture).

The evolution of America’s racial language continues.

Joementum.

A case where the rules probably shouldn’t apply to the President.

Racial and xenophobic rhetoric and Covid-19.

The vagaries of our Presidential election mechanism gave us a surprising result in 2016. That’s unlikely this year.

A hero of the Afghan War has succumbed to cancer, aged 41.

It’s time to end this thing.

The race is over but Bernie’s still running.

Lee Boyd Malvo may be eligible for parole in two years.

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