The Senate has the entire month of October off, plus the first week of November. So does the House. Both chambers are home, and they will not return in any meaningful way until after Americans have finished voting.

Nine days ago we argued in these pages that data centers had become the sleeper wedge of this election, that voters were connecting them to their electricity bills, and that Republicans needed an answer built on a simple principle: ratepayers should not subsidize the power consumption of trillion-dollar companies.

The Trafalgar Group released a run of Senate general election surveys over the past two weeks covering Texas, Iowa, Ohio, Alaska, New Hampshire and South Carolina.

Voting Already Started. Stop Planning For October.

James Talarico gave conservatives more material this weekend, invoking Christ's miracles to argue for government-run healthcare. Conservative outlets seized on it, as they have seized on nearly everything he has said about religion since March.

CNN released a poll yesterday, conducted by SSRS, that ought to reorganize how conservatives think about the closing weeks of this campaign.