Outside the Beltway

Data collection and analysis takes time.

These are serious allegations.

We’re putting people in an impossible position.

Not to encourage people to skip the longer version, but here’s a key point.

Leadership matters (as does sources of news).

Progressive policy and constituent interests collide.

But they weren’t shouting it from the rooftops.

Our most populous state has become the first with a blanket “stay home” order to stave off Covid-19.

He’s a long way from 1991 delegates but no one can beat him.

These decisions should be made by professionals.

Republicans are half as likely to take the outbreak seriously.

Nate Silver now gives Biden an 87% chance of winning the nomination outright.

Women didn’t vote for her either. But that doesn’t mean sexism didn’t play a role in her loss.

Not a great night for the former New York major. But he still has $54.5 billion to comfort him.

A bad night for Bloomberg and Warren has radically reshaped the race.

96 percent of the delegates have yet to be awarded. How can the race be down to two?

She’s continuing to swing at the candidates beating her at the polls.

The billionaire has decided to stop tilting at windmills.

A law professor makes a bad argument in favor of a pet policy.

He’s campaigning in her home state and Amy Klobuchar’s, too. And may win both.

Donald Trump is once again trying to deflect reality.

If the current polls are right, the race will be all but over in five days.

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

Primaries are not all they are cracked up to be.

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

The venerable youth organization has fallen on hard times.

Do gay candidates have a special obligation to be leftists?

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

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

New section of wall goes all Jericho in Mexicali

The basketball legend and his 13-year-old daughter, Gianna, were among five fatalities.

There’s a very real possibility the legitimacy of the 2020 election will be contested.

Term limits and referenda may sound good, but they are terrible ideas

Andrew Yang had an impressive fourth quarter when it comes to fundraising, but it appears unlikely to help his campaign at all.

A big fundraising quarter for the Senator from Vermont.

Mike Bloomberg’s campaign was forced to apologize for something that really isn’t a scandal.

New reports indicate that the North Koreans never took any of the steps to reduce their research programs that President Trump claimed they did.

Thursday night’s Democratic debate drew the lowest numbers of any of this season’s debates.

The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled the PPACA”s individual mandate unconstitutional but left the fate of the rest of the law unresolved.

New Jersey Congressman Jeff van Drew, elected just last year as a Democrat, is now a Republican.

It’s time for the last Democratic debate of 2019, and the stage will be smaller than it has at any time in the past.

Cory Booker’s campaign is starting to show some of the same signs of collapse that Kamala Harris’s did.

The men who gathered in Philadelphia to write the Constitution were geniuses. But they couldn’t predict the future.

Two Federal Courts have blocked the Administration from diverting Defense Department funds to pay for the President’s border wall

Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is in fifth place in national polling, but a new poll suggests that he may not rise much further.

Kamala Harris didn’t fail because of her race, she failed because she was a bad candidate.

The House Judiciary Committee has revealed the Articles of Impeachment against the President that it will vote on later this week.

California Congressman Duncan Hunter Jr. will remain in office for the rest of 2019 notwithstanding his guilty plea.

With Kamala Harris”s exit from the race, some are raising questions about why minority candidates have failed to break through in a party that has a very diverse base.

The House Intelligence Committee has released its report resulting from its investigation of the Ukraine scandal.