Outside the Beltway

Only the best people.

There’s no way to catch him in a six-candidate field.

Media overreacts to the Sanders victory all the polls predicted.

Speaking of xenophobia.

We’re going to make history one way or another in November.

In 2016, they were backing an extreme long-shot. Now, he’s the frontrunner.

Primaries are not all they are cracked up to be.

Competing in fourteen states plus overseas territories in one day is expensive.

Creepy misinformation? Or just lame?

Our intelligence professionals are issuing a familiar warning.

It got somewhat ugly at the kids’ table.

Most national pundits saw it differently than I did.

The clear winner was Donald Trump.

The wrong people are choosing the Democratic Party’s presidential nominee.

Democrats say they want an candidate who is electable.

We are truly exceptional in how we choose the president.

The mega-billionaire commits to a path quite different from the fake billionaire currently in office.

(Or not. Part 1,276,524).

Lack of control of label is lack of control, ultimately, of a party.

Unprecedented spending since leaving City Hall has put him in a unique position.

The policy was undeniably harmful and unconstitutional. Is it forgivable?

Do gay candidates have a special obligation to be leftists?

Could the fevered dream really come true?

Two early frontrunners are being written off.

It’s a reasonable question but not the right one.

The Attorney General claims to be frustrated by Presidential tweets that undermine his department.

We now have five candidates in double-digits.

An unprecedented spending blitz is upending the campaign.

The Democratic nominee will be white.

There was not a singular “winner” last night, so we need to stop talking like there was.

Iowa and New Hampshire voters are changing the perception of the race.

The math compelled it. But he outlasted several better-known candidates.

Some thoughts based on incomplete results.

An amusing discovery.

The plurality of New Hampshire voters are unaffiliated. Should they all stay at home?

A feminist icon offers some advice her allies will not want to hear.

Biden’s support is in decline. But it’s not clear that Buttigieg is getting an Iowa bounce.

Nobody even agrees on what baselines to use.

The precise distribution of 41 measly delegates is now known. Unless there’s a recount.

How is the mayor of a modest-sized Midwestern city doing as well as he has?

There’s a campaign to encourage anti-Trump Republicans and independents to vote in New Hampshire.

A smaller staff is arguably a good idea. But not this way.

The primary season has just started. It is almost over.

Is there a new frontrunner?

The Vermont Senator is a better politician than most give him credit for.

America first.

America’s mayor talks like a snake oil salesman/conman.

A long overdue correction.

A recurring source of friction in the OTB conversation.