Outside the Beltway

The slow Alaska count came out as expected.

Revisiting predictions about what would happen if what has happened happened.

A lame duck President has fired his Secretary of Defense and replaced him in probably violation of the law.

Looking back on the last three decades of presidential elections. (Part 1: the popular vote).

All the major outlets are finally acknowledging the obvious.

The lies aren’t working anymore.

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.

Trump needs them both.

When early voting meets tragedy.

Some guy you never heard of is the guy.

The Chief of Staff wants to play pretend.

Same endless song, different verse.

Election Day is increasingly a myth.

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.

I’m sorry, what?

A clever political gambit that raises real issues.

Kamala Harris wins by not losing.

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

One of these really isn’t like the other.

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

Because of course they are.

The inevitable has happened.

They are standing by as ordered.

A nuanced take on a complicated set of facts distorted in the public debate.

Multiple reports have the Notre Dame graduate replacing Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

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.

Biden is polling well, and consistently so.

As Election Day draws closer, the President is doubling down on stoking racial resentment.

The venerable military newspaper lives to print another day.

Confusing advice is unlikely to be heeded.

Yet another grim milestone.

Why roll with the facts when you can confuse your supporters with conspiracy theories?

Yet more flouting of the rule of law by the Trump administration.

The actor best known for his roles as Jackie Robinson and Black Panther has been lost to cancer.

I’ve been thinking it wrong for years.

Preying on the fears of old white people is good business.

The President has hit rock bottom.

A great character actor is gone.

The one-time candidate for the GOP presidential nomination is dead at 74.

The ‘outside agitators’ trope strikes again.

Federal agents deployed nonlethal force against peaceful demonstrators.

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

The President does not like his poll numbers.

Dissenters to a denied emergency appeal argue it is.

Ongoing ambiguity is not helpful.