Outside the Beltway

Two candidates with no political experienced whatsoever are tied in Iowa as Republican voters continue to reject anyone with political experience.

Some Republicans are threatening a government shutdown over funding of Planned Parenthood, but a new poll shows that it would be a big political risk for Republicans.

Ohio politicos are predictably unhappy about the decision to return Mount Denali to its rightful place.

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Scott Walker and Chris Christie apparently think that the key to turning around their dying campaigns is to pander to the people supporting Donald Trump’s anti-immigration platform.

A new poll shows Bernie Sanders gaining traction outside of New Hampshire for the first time.

Two candidates with no experience in elected office are leading the Republican field.

The What? Me Worry? Edition OTB Caption Contest^TM is now over.

Jeb Bush’s campaign has been in a rough patch for several weeks at least, and now he’s lost three top fundraisers.

Some of Hillary Clinton’s Democratic opponents are complaining about the DNC’s parsimonious debate schedule.

A Federal Appeals Court has upheld a 1949 law that bars protesters from the property around the Supreme Court building. This seems inconsistent with the Court’s recent First Amendment jurisprudence.

Another poll confirms the fact that Americans of all political stripes continue to hold Congress is disdain.

Four months in jail, no opportunity for bail, no trial, no access to mental health care. And, now Jamycheal Mitchell is dead.

Hillary Clinton has a bit of a public image problem, but it’s not clear if that will hurt her politically.

If the Administration gets its way, efforts to block the Iran nuclear deal may come to a quick end in the Senate.

Carly Fiorina will most likely be excluded from CNN’s prime time debate in September, so of course her campaign is complaining about rules that were established months ago.

Today’s revision of Second Quarter G.D.P. growth was good news, but it doesn’t seem likely to last.

Thinking back to about this time in 2011.

A front page cover on yesterday’s murders in Virginia crosses the line from reporting to exploitation.

States who try to use loyalty oaths to keep Donald Trump off the ballot will be running afoul of the Constitution.

Another poll shows Bernie Sanders doing will in New Hampshire, but there’s no evidence he’s catching on anywhere else in the country.

A reporter and cameraman for a local television station were killed, and a third person wounded, live on the air this morning.

Donald Trump’s support in the polls appears to become coming largely from people who don’t typically vote in primary elections.

Congress is set to debate the Iran nuclear deal next month, but as far as Europe is concerned the debate is already over.

My latest for War on The Rocks, “The Inter-Service Wars Are Looking Like Calvinball,” has posted.

Republican officials in three states are looking at ways to keep Donald Trump off the primary ballot unless he pledges to support the eventual GOP nominee.

Joe Biden may want to run for President, but does anyone else? It doesn’t really seem like it.

Yesterday’s stock market drop led some Republican candidates to say some particularly dumb things.

Trump is at -51 net favorability and Clinton at +40. The rest of the field is at “Who?”

Even if Donald Trump isn’t the Republican nominee in 2016, he could still end up causing real harm to the party’s chances of winning the White House and holding on to the Senate.

Thanks in part to a slow summer news cycle, the speculation about Vice-President Biden entering the race for President seems to be reaching a fever pitch.

Scott Walker is flip-flopping on immigration again, while his poll numbers sink like a stone.

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If we are gong to assess the significance of Trump, we need to pay attention to the numbers.

Susan Crawford claims that “Cable-Only Presidential Debates are the New Poll Tax.”

The Ready, Fire, Aim Edition OTB Caption Contest^TM is now over.

Thanks to $500,000, Rand Paul bought himself a caucus so he can run for two offices at once.

For a variety of reasons, it’s unlikely that the Republican field will shrink significantly before the Iowa Caucuses.

The reports about Vice-President Biden possibly entering the Presidential race continue to persist.

There are no “anchor babies,” there are only Americans.

Another poll shows that a majority of Americans oppose the Iranian nuclear deal, but the effort to defeat it in Congress is still likely to fail.

Hillary Clinton’s own campaign admits she “didn’t think it through” when she decided to use a private email server as Secretary of State.