Outside the Beltway

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.

Trump has pulled ahead in some individual polls but Biden continues to have a commanding lead.

Just when you thought the 2020 campaign couldn’t go any lower.

The ongoing pathetic attempt to create a scandal around Hunter Biden.

Will he be a uniter or a divider?

The iconoclastic journalist is out at the publication he founded.

Fear of a reprise of 2016 is still with us.

Up is down. Down is up.

The stakes of losing will be catastrophic. Either way.

Usually candidates don’t talk about how bad things are across the country while appealing to be re-elected.

The state polling is not lining up along usual patterns.

Chuck Schumer and company sent a signal to their base against a fait accompli.

Less Trumpy Trump still Trump.

Same endless song, different verse.

Election Day is increasingly a myth.

Some surprising poll numbers.

A Blue Wave still looks quite likely.

It turns out, he wasn’t hacked. (Spoiler: They’re never hacked.)

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

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

Rudy Giuliani and a hack tabloid are trying to revive the Burisma story.

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

Trump continues to lag.

It’s not a cult but not exactly mainstream, either.

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

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.

A parody of a joke.

A truly chaotic combination.

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

One man’s fecklessness has gotten untold people sick.

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.

Whether the delusions of a madman or a deliberate scheme to poison the waters, there’s cause for concern.

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

A Senate GOP report doesn’t find anything new.

Two related discussions.

The iconic Supreme Court justice has died at the age of 87.

A defense of the indefensible.