Outside the Beltway

A man with one of the more unique political and personal resumes in recent memory has passed away.

Marco Rubio is taking heat for missing a lot of Senate votes since he started running for President, but he’s not really any worse than other legislators who have run for President.

Republicans seem to be thinking that Hillary Clinton will be an easier General Election candidate than the evidence suggests she is likely to be.

Hillary Clinton has started to distance herself from President Obama on some issues. It’s an understandable strategy, but it carries many risks.

More than 23 million people watched the debate Wednesday night.

Polling in three battleground states shows Hillary Clinton slightly trailing three top Republicans, but it means far less than you might think.

A Republican political consultant says Hillary Clinton is in danger of losing the nomination.

Mitt Romney decided not to run in 2016 but he’s very much in the race.

Pundits and political scientists agree that, if the 2016 presidential election were today, we’d have a much better idea who would win.

The scandal that will make everyone forget about Benghazi.

The Republican frontrunner claims he doesn’t read America’s most important newspaper.

Mitt Romney is set to make an announcement at 11 Eastern today. [UPDATE: He’s out!]

Columbus, Philadelphia, or New York City (well, Brooklyn really)?

President Obama has appointed an “Ebola Czar,” but it’s unclear why we need one when there are already people who are supposed to be in charge of the Ebola response.

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.

It’s hard for a party to win four straight presidential elections. The Democrats may pull it off.

When it comes to Iraq, the media only seems to be giving Americans one side of the story.

Who do the Democrats have to take Joe Biden’s place?

New York has joined nine other states and the District of Columbia to vote to for an Electoral College bypass.

Tan, rested, ready, Biden in 2016?

Ken Cuccinelli still hasn’t called to congratulate Terry McAuliffe. Why does this odd custom continue?

Former Justice O’Connor seems to regret the fact that the Supreme Court got involved in the 2000 election. Her regrets are misplaced.

The Iraq War did significant damage to the legacy of the Republican Party.

Ed Koch, former mayor of New York City and one of America’s most colorful politicians, has died at 88.

Some proposed reforms just need to be ignored.

Bill Clinton has a warning for his fellow Democrats.

Arab news giant Al-Jazeera is buying Al Gore’s failing Current TV network, hoping to get a bigger presence in the US cable market.

Democrats are approaching an “Electoral College lock.” Republicans are trying to pick it.

Judging by the record of the past decade and a half, movement conservatism has accomplished very little.

Fareed Zakaria declares “America’s election process an international embarrassment.” He’s right.

Republicans used to dominate California. Now, they’re barely a factor in the state’s politics.

In a posting for New Atlanticist titled “Status Quo Election,” I note the near total absence of foreign affairs from a presidential campaign that’s mercifully coming to an end.

Mitt Romney has an advantage among self-identified Independents that makes writing him off at this point inadvisable.

There are several circumstances under which we may not know who won the 2012 election for some time after November 6th

The President has yet to tell us what he would do with a Second Term.

For all the hype, it’s unlikely that tonight’s debate will have the same impact as the October 3rd Debate.

Should we stop televising political debates?

President Obama hinted that he might be more aggressive in his next debate with Mitt Romney. That could be a mistake.

It’s no wonder partisans can’t agree with each other when they can’t even agree what the facts are.

Mitt Romney’s “47 Percent” remarks seem to be hurting him.