Outside the Beltway

The independent who upended the 1992 Presidential race has passed.

Is the Sanders-Warren position too extreme for the general election?

President Trump says in a new interview that he would be willing to break the law to get “oppo research” on an opponent.

The size of the Democratic Presidential field, combined with other things peculiar to the way Democrats pick their nominee, is leading some to wonder if we might see a brokered convention in 2020.

Based on the early stages of the campaign for the 2020 Democratic Presidential nomination, it appears as though the party’s progressive wing has misread the signals being sent by the party’s voters.

A new poll finds that a small majority of Americans support abolishing the Electoral College, but that’s not nearly enough to make any change in how we elect Presidents possible.

Gender bias is real. Most examples cited, though, aren’t.

The way we elect Presidents make it unlikely that a third-party candidate like Howard Schultz could ever actually win the the Presidency.

Florida has begun the recount process in both the Senate and Governor’s races. Where it goes from here is anyone’s guess.

With the 2020 Campaign set to begin as soon as the 2018 campaign ends, Democrats find themselves facing an age issue.

As the midterm campaign draws to a close, Donald Trump is returning to the message of xenophobia and fear that dominated his Presidential campaign.

Surely a celebrity hound with no political experience can’t become President. Right?

Washington said farewell to John McCain today in a service that both remembered his spirit and his heroism, and stands as a sharp rebuke to what politics has been reduced to in America today.

A group of lawsuits filed across the country are seeking to challenge the predominant method for allocation of Electoral College votes. These lawsuits appear to have little merit.

Has the party paid too big a price to attract suburban voters?

The woman who lost the 2016 election is apparently not going to go away.

Normally attorneys would be jumping at the chance to represent the President of the United States. With Donald Trump, the lawyers are distancing themselves from him as fast as they can.

After nearly twenty years, the Republican domination of the Virginia House of Delegates came to an end thanks to a single vote.

For some reason, Joe Lieberman is apparently the front-runner to replace James Comey at the F.B.I.

Just about two months into office, Donald Trump’s job approval number are worse than any newly elected President since World War II.

It may well be that the 25th Amendment, not the impeachment clause, will be his undoing.

President Obama thinks he would have beaten Donald Trump. And he’s probably right.

While hardly the most compelling argument against an archaic institution, yesterday’s silliness was noteworthy.