The Trump-McConnell Supreme Court gets involved in the election, and the results of the final Crooked Media/Change Research Pollercoaster series show Biden in the lead and Trump voters in a Fox News bubble. Then TargetSmart CEO Tom Bonier talks to Jon about the most promising trends in the early vote data.

Show Notes

The Court

• NYT: Senate Confirms Barrett, Delivering for Trump and Reshaping the Court 
• WaPo: Senate confirms Barrett to Supreme Court, cementing its conservative majority
• Politico: Senate confirms Barrett to Supreme Court, sealing a conservative majority for decades
• WaPo: Trump’s conservative imprint on the federal judiciary gives Democrats a playbook — if they win
• The Atlantic:  The Amy Coney Barrett Hail-Mary Touchdown
• Vox: The legal theories of Amy Coney Barrett, explained
• Vox: How an anti-democratic Constitution gave America Amy Coney Barrett
• Vox: This is the future of abortion in a post-Roe America
• Vox: What Amy Coney Barrett on the Supreme Court means for abortion rights
• NYT: In Swearing In Barrett, Trump Defiantly Mimics ‘Superspreader’ Rose Garden Ceremony
• New Yorker:  Justice Amy Coney Barrett Is Sworn In Under Darkness at the White House
• CNN: Pence’s office says he did not attend swearing-in due to CDC guidelines
• CNN: Associate Justice Amy Coney Barrett sworn in and greeted with a request to recuse herself in an election case
• Vox: 4 upcoming Supreme Court cases will reveal who Amy Coney Barrett really is – We know she’s conservative. We don’t yet know if she’s a nihilist.
• NYT: Supreme Court Won’t Extend Wisconsin’s Deadline for Mailed Ballots
•  WaPo: Supreme Court rejects request to extend Wisconsin’s deadline for counting mail-in ballots
• Vox: The radical implications of the Supreme Court’s new ruling on Wisconsin mail-in ballots
• Politico: In Wisconsin decision, Supreme Court foreshadows election night cliffhanger
• Capital Times:  Supreme Court ruling makes it official: Absentee ballots due by 8 p.m. on Nov. 3
• Vanity Fair: BRETT KAVANAUGH’S WISCONSIN RULING LAYS THE GROUNDWORK TO HAND TRUMP THE ELECTION
• NYT: Supreme Court Galvanizes Push for Early Voting by Wisconsin Democrats 
• NYT: In search of 362,236 unreturned ballots, Democrats plan an all-out scavenger hunt in Wisconsin.
• WaPo: After supporting Trump by one vote in 2016, a Wisconsin community reassesses
• CNN: Brett Kavanaugh foreshadows how Supreme Court could disrupt vote counting 
• The Nation:  Brett Kavanaugh Prepares to Upend Election Rules to Benefit Donald Trump
• NY Mag:  Trump’s Supreme Court Justices Show How They Might Help Him in Contested Election
• Daily Beast: Justice Kavanaugh Parrots Trump in Ominous Anti-Mail-In Ballot Wisconsin Ruling
• Slate:  Brett Kavanaugh Signals He’s Open to Stealing the Election for Trump
• WaPo: Kavanaugh’s argument for rejecting late-arriving ballots is riddled with dubious arguments
• NYT: Fat and Happy’ With a Conservative Court, Are Republicans Losing a Winning Issue?
• WaPo: Raging Trump wants the Supreme Court to save him. Here’s why it probably won’t
• WaPo: Democrats say Republicans will ‘regret’ confirming Amy Coney Barrett. Will they?
• Politico Mag:  The Other Tool Democrats Have to Rein in the Supreme Court
• The Atlantic:  The Supreme Court Is Helping Republicans Rig Elections
• USA Today : Trump makes false statement about Election Day ballot counts
• WaPo: Amid USPS delays, election experts and campaigns weigh in: Don’t mail your ballot
• WaPo: Ohio’s drop-box dispute shows how voting rights groups and Democrats fear Trump’s influence
• WaPo: Former U.S. attorneys — all Republicans — back Biden, saying Trump threatens ‘the rule of law’

Pollercoaster

• The Message Box
• Crooked: PollerCoaster 2020: What Voters Are Hearing Down the Stretch 
• Change Research: PollerCoaster 2020
• CNN: Why the GOP hold on Texas is loosening
• CNN: 8 days to go: Biden’s lead over Trump is holding, while Clinton’s was collapsing at this point
• CNN: How early voting is consistent with the polls
• FiveThirtyEight:  Is Joe Biden Toast If He Loses Pennsylvania?
• FiveThirtyEight:  The Senate Races Where Democrats Have An Edge In The Polls
• Pew Research: About one-fifth of Democrats and Republicans get political news in a kind of media bubble
• FiveThirtyEight: Media Bubbles Aren’t The Biggest Reason We’re Partisans