Outside the Beltway

The final debate of 2016 didn’t draw as many viewers as the first Hillary v. Donald match-up, but it still drew a respectable number.

Last night’s debate, sadly, lived down to my expectations.

For better or worse, the third Presidential debate will largely be remembered for one thing.

With the lone exception of Bill Clinton in 1996, Arizona hasn’t gone for a Democrat since 1948. That streak could end this year.

With twenty-one days to go until Election Day, things are looking very good for Hillary Clinton.

More evidence that Trump would be a terrible president.

Candidate trumps party in a presidential system.

With just over three weeks before Election Day, efforts by top Republicans to disavow their party’s nominee are quite clearly too little, too late.

News outlets are suddenly finding out that Trump was a cad in 2005. Film at 11.

Donald Trump is facing potential trouble in a state that has gone for a Democrat only twice since the end of World War II.

Viewership for the second debate fell some twenty percent from the first debate, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that voter are losing interest.

Paul Ryan is abandoning the Trump campaign.

Last night’s debate was indeed the low point everyone anticipated it would be, but it seems unlikely to change the status quo.

Trump was alternately somnambulant, petulant, stalking, incoherent, and dangerous.

As we head into the second Presidential debate, Hillary Clinton looks to be in very good shape.

Some early musings on a political fantasy that’s less implausible than it was 12 hours ago.

Republicans are abandoning Donald Trump in droves after last night’s revelation of lewd remarks he made in 2005.

An 11-year-old tape of the Republican nominee making misogynistic comments should surprise no one.

Damon Linker writes, “Millions of people disagree with your political views. That doesn’t make them moral monsters.”

The September Jobs Report continues to show an economy that is growing to some degree, but hardly growing as fast as it should be.

Even if Donald Trump loses next month, the political forces inside the GOP he tapped into are likely to remain very powerful.

Tuesday night’s running mate debate had lower viewership than any such encounter in sixteen years.

Donald Trump is doing worse with white voters than Mitt Romney did in 2012.

It’s possible that Mike Pence won and Donald Trump still lost. It won’t matter.

Nothing that happens tonight during the Vice-Presidential debate is likely to matter, so feel free to skip it.

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

Political Science research suggests that the election is, in basic ways, about what we would expect.

The Supreme Court begins another term faced with the prospect of having to spend much of their time dealing with the fact that they’re short a member.

Donald Trump appears to be pushing voters from America’s fastest growing minority group into the Democratic camp.

America’s newspaper of records has published three pages of stolen tax documents from 1995.

The reputation of the US matters in global affairs.

Judging 2016 by historical standards hasn’t worked out well thus far.

It wasn’t exactly Lincoln-Douglas but, in the end, Hillary Clinton clearly outperformed Donald Trump last night.

Trump had a much lower bar than Clinton going in. Neither cleared it.

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

With just hours before the first debate, and six weeks until Election Day, the race for President remains tight.

In which Ted Cruz endorses the guy who called his wife ugly and said his father was involved in the Kennedy assassination.

A new study debunks an old idea.