Outside the Beltway

Creepy misinformation? Or just lame?

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.

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

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

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

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.

Is there a new frontrunner?

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

We’re right back where we started.

Proposed mid-stream changes could help Bloomberg, hurt Sanders, and divide the party.

The leading papers in Iowa and New Hampshire are backing Klobuchar and Warren, respectively.

A legendary newsman has passed.

Two progressives enter. One progressive leaves.

The 2016 frontrunners at this stage won their nominations easily. But that’s often not the case.

Next week’s Democratic debate could have as few as five candidates.

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

Another one bites the dust.

Tulsi Gabbard is under fire back home for her vote on impeachment and for missing votes on the House floor.

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

A much smaller debate stage led to a much better debate last night.

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.

Despite denials and dismissals, it is clear that being an impeached President is getting under Trump’s skin.

With the House of Representatives just days away from impeaching President Trump, polling shows that public opinion on the issue has not changed much since October.

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

President Trump is reportedly considering boycotting the General Election debates next fall.

New polling shows that the American public does not support the President and his trade war.

After a hearing that largely recapped the past month of hearings on Capitol Hill, the House Judiciary Committee is set to unveil Articles of Impeachment today.

Former Congressman Joe Sestak (Who?) is ending his bid for the Democratic Presidential nomination.

Even as candidates like Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders continue to base their campaigns on it, Democrats appear to be growing skeptical of ‘Medicare For All.’

Under the Democratic National Committee’s current qualification rules, Michael Bloomberg’s self-funded campaign means he wouldn’t qualify for any future debate. He doesn’t seem worried about that.

Andrew Yang is upset about the fact that he’s largely being ignored at the Democratic debates. He’s right, but that’s at least partly his fault.

He raises a very real problem.

Wednesday night’s debate drew the smallest television audience of any of the debates so far.

The fifth Democratic debate brought some candidate clashes, but hardly the no-holds-barred type of event you might expect for this late in the pre-primary process.

History shows us that candidates who enter the race for President late rarely do well, and rarely manage to win.

The newest entrant is outperforming most rivals but is intensely disliked.

Mike Bloomberg is apparently entering the race for the Democratic nomination.

Kamala Harris’s Presidential race continues to his bumpy roads.

Beto O;Rourke finally faces reality.

George Washington invented the concept and was quite clear that it did not apply to impeachment proceedings.

The stage for the sixth Democratic debate in December is likely to be much smaller.

We won’t have whats-his-name to kick around anymore.

The first round of polls after last week’s debate has good news for the former Vice-President.

The fourth Democratic debate saw a viewership dip from September, but there are likely some good reasons for that.

Elizabeth Warren took most of the fire during last night’s fourth Democratic debate, which will likely go a long way toward winnowing down a crowded field.

With twelve Democrats set to clash tonight in Ohio, it’s time to take a look at the state of the race.