Outside the Beltway

Not knowing the results of an election a week later is unacceptable.

A low confidence Election Day forecast.

How we feeling?

Floating the idea that NC should just award its EVs to Trump.

And the real destruction of mail-in ballots

Will voting be disrupted in parts of GA and NC?

Yet another plot twist in Campaign 2024.

A bizarre court decision requires violating state and federal law.

What Trump and many supporters get wrong about Kamala Harris

The President wants an alternative schedule and format.

The Supreme Court has effectively derailed the main criminal case against the likely Republican nominee.

Looking ahead to November 5, 2024

A race a Democrat will definitely win will be the most expensive in US history.

Democrats increase their Senate margin.

Discrimination? Issues? Incumbency?

Adam Laxalt’s big lead is slowly erodiing.

Describe the sound made when a sheep explodes.

The rules for voting in America vary widely.

They’re going to wait until after the midterms to decide whether Iowa and New Hampshire stay at the front of the line.

See is paying the price for her defense of democracy.

Why would a group that claims it has evidence of ballot harvesting refuse to turn it over?

Running against Trump didn’t work this year.

The political calculus of Arizona’s senior Senator is unclear.

The Lone Star State has enacted some peculiar new laws.

An interesting podcast conversation.

A completely unsurprising 6-3 decision.

Kinda, sorta, maybe, but probably not really.

Or, at least, he’s willing to kill democracy in order to save it.

Cries that American democracy is in jeopardy are not hyperbole.

A special session looms. (And how this is not like the filibuster in the US Senate).

Let’s call it what it is.

It’s not just Red states that put up too many barriers.

No, Colorado’s voting regulations are not roughly the same as Georgia’s.

Georgia Public Broadcasting provides a useful list of provisions.

It makes voting harder.

The fixes worsen the stated problem (more on Iowa and other states’ attempts to restrict voting).

Making it harder to vote in Iowa.

HR1 is a national approach to expanding voter access. State legislatures are trying to both expand and restrict the vote as well.

And what GOP opposition says about the party.

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

A surprisingly uneventful experience.

When early voting meets tragedy.

Fear of a reprise of 2016 is still with us.

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

Election Day is increasingly a myth.

Joe Biden’s chances remain extraordinarily good.

The President has hit rock bottom.

The President does not like his poll numbers.

Joementum.