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They say the 12-year-old was told it would be a complicated case, that it could take 18 months to come to court, and that it could boil down to her word against the boy's.

"We’re a TB area hotpot and it has to boil down to wildlife within this area. There’s no nose-to-nose contact within our herd with any other herd. We do our bit for the environment… but I just keep feeling like this TB mountain is pulling us down."

On Wednesday, Yglesias posted a list of rules that he thinks Democrats should follow going forward; several of them boil down to rejecting the inclusion jargon used by activists and academics.

And so, in a sense, the many questions posed by this showdown boil down to just one: Will the next president embrace the traditional role of a commander in chief with robust yet limited powers, with a fundamental obligation to serve the citizenry over her parochial needs, and with ultimate accountability to the people and the law?

The race may boil down to Nevada, and voters like the man I met who is holding his nose and voting for Harris — because she’s not inane.