Nathaniel Rakich

Beau Bayh is running for secretary of state in Indiana, where his father Evan was governor and senator (and a top contender in the 2008 veepstakes) indianacapitalchronicle.com/2025/10/06/d...

This game has had 23 101+ mph pitches.

That's more than were thrown in the 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2018, 2019, 2020 or 2024 postseasons.

Smithers, I’m beginning to think that Rob Thomson isn’t the brilliant tactician I thought he was.

The main steps of Syracuse University.

Nathaniel Rakich lecturing in front of a classroom of students.

I had a blast visiting @syracuseu.bsky.social @newhousesu.bsky.social @maxwellsu.bsky.social today as part of my fellowship with the Syracuse Institute for Democracy, Journalism & Citizenship. The kids are all right, guys.

Dear Stan Javier, you had a good run. Julio's home run is the first run scored at home for the Mariners in the playoffs since Javier homered in 2001 off Mike Mussina.

(Stan Javier is 61 years old, btw.)

Undecided voters are a thing! They exist in polls but won’t exist in the final results. That alone will push him close to 50%.

It’s getting late Early out there

Oh man, José Ramírez is great but you cannot risk that out

A study in why we may have gone too far to devalue starting pitching!

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Those of us who write about polls need to experiment more with radically different presentations like this in order to communicate better with the public. I'll have more on this soon.

This story on WaPo's shutdown poll is a clinic in how to present polling data in an accessible way. Look at that headline—couldn't be simpler, but it's a perfect way to describe a poll! www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...

Someday Mason Miller’s arm is going to burst into flames on national television and we will have no one to blame but ourselves

Former #Royals great Frank White, not so popular anymore…

Meanwhile, even crazier budget stuff is going down in Michigan.

Tennessee 7 Special: Upset in the Making? Inside Elections is a non-partisan newsletter covering U.S. House, Senate, and gubernatorial campaigns, Presidential politics, and political developments.

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TFW @erincovey.bsky.social and I publish #TN07 previews within minutes of each other

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It’s that time of year where it’s very inconvenient that the two sports leagues I decided to care about are MLB and the WNBA

Yes, that’s a good point too. They’re kind of proxy fighters in this case but they each have their own roles.

Yes, it’s a spectrum for sure

Both are worthy goals, of course, although it’s easy to see how you can go overboard with either position. The utility of a party is figuring out how to strike a balance: winning elections while still standing for something tangible.

This gets at an unspoken problem with the centrist vs. progressive debate: they’re actually interested in different things. Centrists prioritize winning elections; progressives prioritize ideological purity. When they don’t realize this, they talk around each other.

It’s gonna be tempting for everyone to just add Adams’s vote share to Cuomo’s, but voters are more complicated than that. In practice, some Adams voters will go Cuomo, some will go Mamdani, some will go Sliwa, and some will just stay home.

The Harvard Political Analytics Conference looks like it has some great speakers, but it's really disappointing to see 23 men and only 4 women on the program. You don't have to go to any special effort to think of several excellent political analysts who happen to be women.

What does an independent mean in politics? New CNN poll results identify five distinct types of independents.

Check out our new CNN poll deep dive into who political independents are, how they engage with politics and what they think about the current political moment. The classic swing voter appears to be a thing of the past. www.cnn.com/interactive/...

It's not in DC!!

From one Boston transplant to another, Paul, prepare for a sharp dropoff in the quality of your Italian and Asian food. (We do have Tatte down here at least.)

Because I use a neutral baseline, you can compare this directly to past cycles—and it's slightly better than the average Democratic overperformance even in 2017–18 (which was 11 points).