Outside the Beltway

Mike Huckabee seems to be making the moves necessary to run for President again, For reasons only he can understand.

A Presidential candidate’s health and fitness for office are legitimate issues. When it comes to bringing up Hillary Clinton’s age in the context of 2016,, though, Republicans need to proceed with caution.

After the 2010 elections, several newly Republican state legislatures flirted with the idea of changing the way their state allocates Electoral Votes. The outcome of last weeks elections raises the possibility that this could happen again.

The GOP’s big wins last week seem to be just guaranteeing that this year’s battle between the Tea Party and the “establishment” will continue.

The GOP is dominant in the Southern United States, but it’s unlikely to last as long as Democratic dominance of the region did.

Scott Walker argues that Governors tend to make the best Presidents. He’s largely correct, but he’s not the only Republican who fits that bill.

2014 was not supposed to be a wave election, but it clearly qualifies as one.

Once again, reporters and pundits are arguing that Chris Christie’s “New Jersey style” won’t play well on the stump. I’m not so sure they’re right.

At this rate, it’s unlikely the House will file any kind of lawsuit against President Obama until 2015, assuming it ever files anything.

With the midterms over, it’s time for Sarah Palin to start grifting again.

Kentucky Senator Rand Paul continues to challenge Republican orthodoxy on foreign policy, and that’s a good thing.

Despite conventional wisdom, there remains little incentive for the GOP to change its position on immigration reform.

Yahoo has given a click-bait headline to a Reuters report, “Obama makes rare campaign trail appearance, people leave early.”

Mitt Romney 2016? Not as far as his wife is concerned.

It’s way too early, folks.

The die is cast.

If the GOP wins the Senate in November, their majority could prove to be fleeting.

Combining politics, an incessantly sensationalist news cycle, and a virus that scares a lot of people can’t end well.

It has nothing to do with winning, but it does have a lot to do with the foreign policy debate inside the Republican Party.

Bush 2016?

While it still seems unlikely that he’ll run, Mitt Romney does seem to be leaving the door open to a third run at the White House.

Once again, Justice Ginsburg is telling people she has no plans to resign, but her explanation is a bit different this time.

The former Virginia Senator is talking about running for President.

The fact that a candidate like Mike Huckabee could win the Iowa Caucuses is the reason to end the Iowa Caucuses.

Some have argued that there is an historical bias against political parties holding on to the White House for more than two terms. As with most commonly held ideas, that simply isn’t true.

If Republicans win the Senate, what we’ve seen for the past three years could end up seeming tame by comparison.

Some on the left are saying that Hillary Clinton isn’t doing enough to help Democrats in 2014.

Once something that generally benefited Republicans, social issues are now becoming a wedge issue for Democrats.

Republicans in the House seem determined to make life difficult for whomever wins the GOP nomination in 2016

Notwithstanding the hype, there’s one very big reason why the idea of Elizabeth Warren as a viable candidate for President doesn’t make much sense.

Republicans are dismissing talk of impeachment as a Democratic fundraising ploy, but it may be they are protesting just a bit too much.

The Hobby Lobby decision could end up motivating women voters to turn out to vote against Republicans in the fall.

It’s beginning to look like the 2016 race for the Republican nomination will have its own collection of oddballs.

A new poll suggests that Hillary Clinton’s record as Secretary of State doesn’t impress voters as much as she might hope.

If Hillary Clinton is going to have a serious challenge in 2016, the person who will do that has yet to emerge.

A Silicon Valley businessman says he has enough signatures to get it on the ballot, but the plan to break California up into six states is most assuredly going nowhere.

It seems improbable, but the national landscape on same-sex marriage is changing so quickly that even the Republican Party may find itself changing faster than some might think.

Rick Perry and Rand Paul are highlighting what looks to be a coming battle inside the GOP over foreign policy.

Ed Klein says he has “Democrat sources” who Obama wants Warren to continue his mission to “transform America into a European-style democratic-socialist state.”

Emil Henry makes “The Case for Mitt Romney in 2016.”

One of the most repeated comments about the 2016 race is based on something that just isn’t true.

A new poll suggests that Republicans could be losing a constituency that is very key for them in the nation’s third most populous state.

The people with the biggest voices in the GOP seem to be leading it to positions that most Americans disagree with.