Sometimes, taking a step back from the day to day horror of Republican politics let's you put together a couple of disparate puzzle pieces. Case in point: What does the GOP gain from backing a losing and extraordinarily toxic presidential campaign? And how does this tie into the ...read more

Right now, every electoral map has Hillary winning by a very comfortable margin. As of this writing, Fivethirtyeight, one of the more conservative forecasts, shows her winning the Electoral College by almost 140 points and the popular vote by a stunning 6.4 points. By way of ...read more

Republicans are just days away from stampeding for the emergency exits as the Trump Train speeds towards a spectacular, one-for-the-history-books disaster in November. Between Tump's terrible debate performance, his week-long meltdown and his all around awfulness, his polling ...read more