Outside the Beltway

Pure fantasy.

The marriage equality issue is resolved, but that doesn’t mean the Supreme Court won’t have a lot of high profile cases on its docket over the next eight months.

Trump remains in the lead, but he has been steadily falling over the month of September. (And this triggers, as these things do, musings about institutions and our party system).

The 2016 election will be fought on a very small battlefield, and right now the makeup of that battlefield heavily favors the Democrats.

In 1992, an eccentric billionaire ran an independent campaign against a Bush and a Clinton. It could happen again.

Donald Trump won’t rule out running against the eventual Republican nominee. Will the RNC use this as an excuse to try to force him out of the race?

A new poll shows that Hillary Clinton remains largely unstoppable on her quest for the Democratic Presidential Nomination, and she has a pretty clear path to the White House as well.

Even with a recent negative downturn in the polls, the reports of Hillary Clinton’s impending political demise are largely wishful thinking on the part of conservatives.

Hillary Clinton is taking a hit in the polls, but it’s unclear if that’s going to matter when 2016 rolls around.

A new Gallup poll puts support for same-sex marriage above 60% for the first time ever.

Once again, only six or seven states are likely to matter.

The GOP race remains tight, but some candidates have benefited from their entry into the race more than others. Overall, though, Hillary Clinton continues to dominate.

Pundits and political scientists agree that, if the 2016 presidential election were today, we’d have a much better idea who would win.

To the surprise of few, Hillary Clinton is running for President

A little round of Qs and As on US-Cuban policy.

Some on the left are suggesting Democrats should write off the South for the foreseeable future, but that would be as foolish as Republicans assuming that their dominance in the region will last as long as Democratic dominance did in the century after the Civil War.

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.

Trying to explain one of the biggest surprises of Election Night 2014.

If the GOP wins the Senate in November, their majority could prove to be fleeting.

While it still seems unlikely that he’ll run, Mitt Romney does seem to be leaving the door open to a third run at the White House.

Some have argued that there is an historical bias against political parties holding on to the White House for more than two terms. As with most commonly held ideas, that simply isn’t true.

If Republicans win the Senate, what we’ve seen for the past three years could end up seeming tame by comparison.

The United States is, in fact, doing the exact opposite.

Republicans in the House seem determined to make life difficult for whomever wins the GOP nomination in 2016

More on instiutional design.

A new poll suggests that Republicans could be losing a constituency that is very key for them in the nation’s third most populous state.

Does the office of Vice-President serve any useful purpose anymore?

Who do the Democrats have to take Joe Biden’s place?

Is support for marriage equality now an issue that can benefit Democrats at the polls?

The Democrats have a big advantage in the Electoral College, at least for now.

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

Kevin Faulconer proves that Republicans can win in California, but not if they follow the path laid out by the party’s far right wing.

Is 435 the right number?

For a year that seemed to start out so well, 2013 has been among the President’s worst of this five years he’s been in office.

When worlds collide.

Some thoughts on reform.

We’re actually not speculating about who might be running any more than we used to.

Former Justice O’Connor seems to regret the fact that the Supreme Court got involved in the 2000 election. Her regrets are misplaced.

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.

Republicans at the state level are still trying to cook the books in the Electoral College

Virginia has decisively killed a bill that would have awarded the Commonwealth’s electoral votes to the winner of gerrymandered congressional districts rather than the statewide winner.

Some proposed reforms just need to be ignored.

Last January 1, some of us made a series of predictions. Here’s how we did.

Six weeks ago, we held a non-binding referendum asking Americans who they’d like for president. Yesterday, the real election was held.

Joe Lieberman has had a change of heart on term limits: He’s now for them.