Outside the Beltway

A weird report might explain a puzzling finding in the polls.

The weirdness of this year’s polling gives the President’s team hope.

Most of the biggest countries in the world have birth rates below replacement level.

It’s depressingly short.

He isn’t very popular.

Public perception is not aligned with the top level data.

Are we avoiding facing hard truths?

The President wants an alternative schedule and format.

Veep edition.

Yesterday’s New Jersey speech was something to behold.

MAGA has eaten the Tea Party.

Well, more than two…

It’s been around for a very long time.

Americans are concerned about very different things.

The NYT is going all-in painting it as “far more radical, vindictive and unchecked” than the first.

Americans look back more fondly on the Trump economy than they did in 2020.

The number of open tabs is just getting silly.

A disturbing dissection in the NYT Magazine.

A famed political forecaster doesn’t believe the polls.

Several glimmers of hope from the Ukraine funding bill.

A win for the good guys and a loss for Trump and Putin.

A set of bills would fund Ukraine, Israel, and other bipartisan priorities while ticking of the MAGA crowd.

While the West dithers, Russia is doubling down.

It’s a relative thing.

An anti-Trump Republican endorses Trump.

As the Silents and Boomers die off, their assets will be redistributed.

Suddenly, old voters are aligning Democrat and young ones Republican.

Rural Americans are misunderstood!

Who could have seen this coming?

Partisanship and representation in conflict.

Easy Come, Easy Go.

A century-old tradition has gone by the wayside.

A truckload of deplorables.

The 2000 Democratic Vice Presidential nominee turned maverick is gone at 82.

There will be lawyers.

He’s suddenly a billionaire after all.

An unexpected 11th hour reprieve.

He may be fighting the last war.

You can lead a horse to water, but the trick is the drinking.

A pandemic hangover may be clouding American politics.

Creeping authoritarianism? Political suicide? Descent into madness?

Most of the things with his name on them are not in his name.

Millions of fools and their money may soon be parted.

A familiar question is again a reasonable one.

Congressional Republicans are reminding voters of a dark hour in the Biden presidency.

Of party, duty, age, and political roulette.

What happens if a corrupt man who owes hundreds of millions is President?

Sic a mob on a guy and this is the thanks Trump gets.