Outside the Beltway

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

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

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.

It’s the traditional start of the campaign season, and the race for President is getting close, at least at the national level.

After some two weeks in which it seemed like he might be moderating, Donald Trump doubled down on the most anti-immigrant portions of his immigration plan.

With ten weeks to go ,there’s been some tightening in the polls but Hillary Clinton continues to maintain a commanding lead in the race for the White House.

Another sign of a weak economy as the Federal Reserve considers rate hikes and the Presidential campaign moves forward.

Donald Trump has spent more time recently attacking the news media than anything else. He ought to be condemned for it.

Not surprisingly, Latino voters are heavily turned off by Donald Trump and seemingly quite eager to vote against him in the fall.

Donald Trump’s path to 270 Electoral Votes is becoming less likely by the day.

A new poll shows Donald Trump barely winning in a state that should be solidly red.

The Old Dominion seems like it’s going to be even more firmly Democratic in 2016.

The first round of post-convention polls is now complete, and it’s not looking good for The Donald.

In a sign of just how bad the trends are right now for Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton is gaining ground in states that Mitt Romney won four years ago.

It’s been a bad week for Donald Trump, something he can ill-afford with less than 100 days left until Election Day.

Donald Trump completed his unlikely journey to the Republican Presidential Nomination last night, but he the party he now leads remains divided.

A look at the state of the race before the two party conventions begin.

Hillary Clinton holds solid leads over Donald Trump in seven battleground states.

Donald Trump has almost no cash on hand. That doesn’t bode well for his campaign going forward.

It’s still early in the cycle, but Donald Trump’s poll numbers are already historically bad.

An increasing number of Republican politicians are finding reasons to skip the Republican National Convention.

Donald Trump is apparently having money troubles.

With Donald Trump now destined to become the GOP nominee, some Republican insiders are trying to put together another ‘too little, too late’ strategy to stop him.

If these numbers hold up, then the GOP may as well start planning for the 2020 primaries now.

Paul Ryan takes himself out of contention as a potential Republican nominee.

A new poll shows that Democratic voters are less engaged in the 2016 campaign right now than Republicans are, but that probably doesn’t mean that much for next year.

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

An adviser close to Hillary Clinton is talking about expanding the Electoral College map in 2016, but even without such an expansion the GOP faces an uphill battle.

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.

Tuesday’s Republican wave didn’t change the fundamentals.

Early numbers seem to suggest that it depends on which state you’re looking at.

Important numbers in recent polling suggest big problems for Democrats on Tuesday.

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

Polls continue to show that most Americans are largely tuning the midterms out.

To a large degree, the Democratic Party’s supposed advantage among women voters appears to not exist this year.

The EPA’s new carbon rules leave much to be desired.

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

The Employment Non-Discrimination Act passed the Senate yesterday but it’s unlikely to go much further.

The one Republican currently polling anywhere close to Hillary Clinton is, unfortunately for the GOP base, Chris Christie.

Republicans have problems with the younger generation that they will need to fix if they’re going to succeed in the future.

When does politics become the “primary activity” of a 501(c)4?

2012’s election represented a significant change in voting patterns in the United States. What’s unclear is if the change is a permanent one.

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

President Obama easily won re-election last night, carrying virtually all of the battleground states. Meanwhile, abortion, gay marriage, and recreational marijuana also won big.

We could be headed for another extremely close election where the Electoral Vote and the Popular Vote disagree with each other.

Romney’s post-debate surge is being picked up in swing state polls, but will it be enough?