It’s Schrodinger’s election.

Some people are predicting a Trump landslide, based both on the various predictors and on the haplessness of Kamala’s part-time campaign and fourth-rate running mate.  It’s plausible.  The nation isn’t in great shape, despite the finagling of interest rates and unemployment figures (expect a bigger-than-usual downward revision of the employment numbers for this month after the election), the Biden Administration, after running on a “return to normalcy” after the “chaos” of the Trump years, has delivered chaos in spades, and there’s a pervasive sense, everywhere from NASA to FEMA to the U.S. Navy, that nothing, at least nothing related to the government, works anymore.

Trump, meanwhile, has come back from not one but two assassination attempts, named a first-rate, not fourth-rate, running mate, and is barnstorming the nation even as Kamala’s appearances are so few and far between that Democrats are worrying out loud to Politico.