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Darren Rutledge missed his opportunity to vote for the first African-American president. He was in prison.

Today, Rutledge, his smile flecked with gold, works trimming beards at Incredible Creations Beauty and Barber shop here in downtown Cincinnati. With Hillary Clinton on the presidential ballot in Ohio, Rutledge is eager to have his chance to make a statement with his vote.

Mike Pence’s debate was great for Pence 2020 and decidedly less great for Trump 2016

If Tuesday night’s vice-presidential debate was about Mike Pence helping Donald Trump right the ship in the 2016 presidential race, it was an abject failure.

But if it was about making Mike Pence look good — possibly for a future presidential run? — it was a success.

Hillary Clinton continues to gain ground in our presidential forecast, as it becomes clearer that last week’s debate was a turning point in the race. In fact, the polls we added to our database on Tuesday may have been Donald Trump’s worst since the debate. They included surveys showing Clinton leading Trump by 9 percentage points and 10 points in Pennsylvania, by 6 points and 2 points in North Carolina, and by 3 points in Nevada.

Donald Trump is running out of time

In a presidential contest driven by big events, Donald Trump is running out of opportunities to rebound.

The Republican’s running mate Mike Pence turned in a solid but fact-challenged performance in the second of four general-election debates, but it hardly changed the shape of a race that has been moving in Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine’s favor for a week.

In the campaign’s final weeks, Hillary Clinton’s position now looks stronger in Florida than in Ohio; in Virginia than in Wisconsin; and in Colorado and even North Carolina than in Iowa.

In other news, the sun today rose in the West.

Vice pres­id­en­tial de­bates don’t de­cide elec­tions. But Mike Pence’s com­mand­ing per­form­ance against Tim Kaine offered a tan­tal­iz­ing pre­view of where Re­pub­lic­ans would be if they had nom­in­ated a more tra­di­tion­al pres­id­en­tial nom­in­ee.

On is­sue after is­sue, Pence put Kaine on the de­fens­ive, for­cing him to de­fend Hil­lary Clin­ton’s po­s­i­tions on the Rus­sia re­set, her email serv­er’s se­cur­ity, Pres­id­ent Obama’s health care law, and the ad­min­is­tra­tion’s cur­rent policy in Syr­ia.

Donald Trump’s weeklong slide in the presidential race started when he showed up to the first debate unprepared and spoiling for a fight. On Tuesday evening, Mike Pence helped slow it by doing the opposite.

Calm and measured, Pence showed off his preparation for his vice-presidential showdown with Democrat Tim Kaine, fending off a slashing, interrupting opponent.