Outside the Beltway

It’s neither unprecedented nor powerful. It doesn’t exist.

Not a Red Wave but a Red Shift?

The 45th President looks to be the 47th.

They’re apparently ongoing. Who knew?

Voters in Mexico, India, and South Africa are making their voices heard.

Americans are concerned about very different things.

Suddenly, old voters are aligning Democrat and young ones Republican.

A breakdown of some Republican primaries.

The trend toward hard-right parties continues.

Oh, the irony.

Shockingly, the current President’s numbers are worse than his predecessor’s.

Well, kind of, but not really.

Adam Laxalt’s big lead is slowly erodiing.

The numbers aren’t real. Not yet, anyway.

The Needle is Broken

For the first time in a long time, Presidential approval numbers and voter preferences aren’t’ aligned.

From the Cliché File.

Too woke! Not woke enough!

The Pundit’s Fallacy meets opportunism.

We’ve just had an election, not psychoanalysis.

A quick follow-up.

Four highly-qualified (and two less-qualified) women ran and lost in 2020.

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

Joe Biden won with every group imaginable—and some that were unimaginable.

The 78-year-old is the Comeback Kid. And the only chance of preventing a Bernie Sanders nomination.

Contrary to the hopes of some, getting rid of Trump isn’t going to purge the GOP of Trumpism.

As many expected, the initial returns from the Israeli elections are too close to call.

A new poll finds President Trump trailing his potential Democratic opponents by huge margins among Latino voters.

What happened to “building a lasting relationship within the African American community”?

Susan Collins hasn’t officially announced her intentions for 2020 just yet, but she looks like she’s running for re-election. If she does, she appears to be facing some political headwinds.

The independent who upended the 1992 Presidential race has passed.

It’s still way too early to be predictive, but the latest head-to-head matches between the President and the top contenders for the Democratic nomination.

Both major parties have claimed victory but it certainly looks like Likud will hang on.

The way we elect Presidents make it unlikely that a third-party candidate like Howard Schultz could ever actually win the the Presidency.

New polling data indicates that Americans are more pessimistic about the future of the Trump Presidency. That’s not good news for him, or for Republicans.

Now that the election is over, President Trump and his sycophants in the right-wing media seem to have completely forgotten about the “invading” “caravan” of Central American asylum seekers.

Whether as candidates or as voters, Democrats can thank women for many of their victories on Tuesday.

The 2018 midterms were mostly about Donald Trump. The results were idiosyncratic.

In another sign of the rapid secularization taking place in that country, Irish voters last weekend voted to rescind the nation’s centuries-old, albeit not recently enforced, law against blasphemy.

Just as they did three years ago when they legalized same-sex marriage, Irish voters turned out in record numbers to repeal the nation’s ban on abortion.

Women voters are turning decidedly against Donald Trump, this could pose problems for Republican in 2018 and beyond.

A new poll shows President Trump losing to a “Generic Democrat.” This poll means nothing.

Roy Moore’s loss in Alabama is bringing out into the open a civil war that has been going on for seven years now.

In what amounts to an electoral perfect storm, Democratic nominee Doug Jones pulled off a win last night in the Alabama Senate Election.

With ten days to go, the Senate race in Alabama between Roy Moore and Doug Jones is close.

Republicans have a Donald Trump problem, and they can’t run away from it.

Democrats, Republicans, and Independents came out for an an election that can only been seen as a strong rebuke to President Trump and the Republican Party.

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s decision to call a snap election pays off big time.

Hillary Clinton has found another group to blame for her loss, educated white married women in suburbia.