For the past year, political journalists across the ideological spectrum have worked to understand Donald Trump and his voters.

Donald Trump is the most-disliked presidential candidate since polling firms started tracking Americans’ distaste for major-party contenders. While Hillary Clinton is the second-most-loathed candidate of modern times, she’s still no competition for the Republican nominee. Is there anyone on this or any other planet who’s sufficiently disliked to lose to Trump in a one-on-one election? In the runup to Nov.

Sen. Marco Rubio dropped the oppo near the end of Monday’s Florida Senate debate with Rep. Patrick Murphy, the Democratic opponent he can’t fully shake off. All night Murphy had been trying to tie Rubio to Donald Trump. Over and over he would come back to the same line: that he couldn’t believe, could not believe, that Rubio would continue to support a man who had bragged about groping women.

After the first presidential debate, the Republican Party nominee called for monitoring and intimidation at polling places in cities like Philadelphia and Cleveland. During the second, Trump announced his plan to investigate Clinton using the power of the presidency, and promised to put her in jail for unnamed crimes against the state. He later turned that into a bona fide campaign slogan: “Lock her up.

If a debate goes on long enough, some idiot will draw a Nazi analogy. That maxim, known as Godwin’s law, has deterred most journalists from comparing today’s politicians to Adolf Hitler. But sometimes, what brings the Nazi analogy closer isn’t the length of the discussion. It’s the behavior of the politician. That’s what is now happening in the case of Donald Trump. In Godwin’s honor, let’s stipulate: There will never be another psychopath quite like Hitler.

But South Dakota can seem uniquely attractive to outsiders. For one, it’s an economical place to push a ballot measure. Campaigns often have to pay professionals to gather enough signatures to make the ballot, as Represent.Us did here. The fewer signatures required, the smaller the tab. South Dakota requires relatively few signatures—only 27,741 for a constitutional amendment this year, versus the 98,492 required in Colorado, for example.

“Great night for Trump! That was a knockout!” the Trump campaign spokesman said as he entered the spin room at Washington University. What about the first segment of the debate, though, when Trump was pounded over the leaked tape? “Mr. Trump did absolutely fantastic tonight,” he responded, not missing a beat. “I think Hillary Clinton looked absolutely rattled.” This is what the team was going with.

Zingers: End them. If there was one response that seemed to really speak to the however many millions of people who were watching the vice presidential debate, presumably because of a lost bet, it was Mike Pence’s, mocking Tim Kaine for his “pre-done” lines. Because, to the misfortune of the West, Kaine and his preppers did appear to think that “lines” would be a wise tactic to employ—again.

David Plouffe may be most famous for his role in managing Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign, but in the 2016 campaign he has taken on a visible role as a highly optimistic surrogate for Hillary Clinton.

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