Outside the Beltway

Some early musings on a political fantasy that’s less implausible than it was 12 hours ago.

Republicans are abandoning Donald Trump in droves after last night’s revelation of lewd remarks he made in 2005.

An 11-year-old tape of the Republican nominee making misogynistic comments should surprise no one.

Damon Linker writes, “Millions of people disagree with your political views. That doesn’t make them moral monsters.”

The September Jobs Report continues to show an economy that is growing to some degree, but hardly growing as fast as it should be.

Even if Donald Trump loses next month, the political forces inside the GOP he tapped into are likely to remain very powerful.

Tuesday night’s running mate debate had lower viewership than any such encounter in sixteen years.

Donald Trump is doing worse with white voters than Mitt Romney did in 2012.

It’s possible that Mike Pence won and Donald Trump still lost. It won’t matter.

Nothing that happens tonight during the Vice-Presidential debate is likely to matter, so feel free to skip it.

With five weeks to go, the momentum in the race is moving decidedly in Hillary Clinton’s favor.

Political Science research suggests that the election is, in basic ways, about what we would expect.

The Supreme Court begins another term faced with the prospect of having to spend much of their time dealing with the fact that they’re short a member.

Donald Trump appears to be pushing voters from America’s fastest growing minority group into the Democratic camp.

The Republican nominee is threatening our fragile democracy.

America’s newspaper of records has published three pages of stolen tax documents from 1995.

The reputation of the US matters in global affairs.

It looks like we won’t have Roy Moore to kick around anymore.

Judging 2016 by historical standards hasn’t worked out well thus far.

It wasn’t exactly Lincoln-Douglas but, in the end, Hillary Clinton clearly outperformed Donald Trump last night.

Trump had a much lower bar than Clinton going in. Neither cleared it.

Democratic hopes of retaking the Senate aren’t going so well at the moment.

With just hours before the first debate, and six weeks until Election Day, the race for President remains tight.

In which Ted Cruz endorses the guy who called his wife ugly and said his father was involved in the Kennedy assassination.

An Oklahoma police officer has been charged in the shooting death of an African-American man while North Carolina authorities continue to balk on releasing a video in a shooting case there.

A new study debunks an old idea.

After two questionable police shootings, protests erupted overnight in Charlotte, North Carolina.

According to one report, the GOP’s longest living former President plans to vote for a Democrat this fall.

With just forty-nine days left in the campaign, and less than a week before the first debate, the race for President is tighter than ever.

The GOP civil war continues…..

Once again, the debate commission controlled by the two major parties is excluding third-party candidates from the Presidential debates.

Donald Trump’s campaign is apparently finally acknowledging reality, although its claim that birtherism originated with the Clinton campaign in 2008 does not comport with the facts.

Gary Johnson is doing better than any third-party candidate in twenty years, but that doesn’t mean he’s likely to get an invitation to the upcoming Presidential debates.

Apparently, even people who support Donald Trump don’t believe his claim that he can get Mexico to pay for his border wall.

The election is now fifty-six days away and, while the race is tighter than it has been, it’s still one in which Hillary Clinton has seemingly all the advantages.

Clinton stumbles and leaves an event early, leading to the news that her campaign has been withholding health information from the press.

The sense of national ‘unity’ that existed in the wake of the September 11th attacks didn’t last for very long.