Outside the Beltway

Reports of the demise of the Democratic Party have been greatly exaggerated.

Despite resentments, power will transition peacefully from President Obama to President Trump. We should be thankful for that rather than protesting it.

The candidate I voted for got more than 200,000 votes for president than the winner. I’m okay with that.

With Donald Trump on the ballot, Bill Maher regrets some past words. He shouldn’t be the only one.

Janet Reno, who served as Attorney General for nearly all of the Bill Clinton Administration, has died at 78.

If polls are any indication, voters are set to legalize marijuana in five more states on Tuesday.

A look at the Electoral College shows that It is far more likely that Hillary Clinton will win the election than that Donald Trump will.

Are these the faces of Clinton voters? George P. Bush thinks so.

Seven days from now, millions of Americans will be headed to the polls. So far at least, Hillary Clinton is still the front runner.

For now at least, it looks as though last week’s email news is having little impact on the state of the race for President.

According to reports, Vice-President Biden is on a Clinton campaign short list for Secretary of State.

Get ready for more hearings if Hillary Clinton becomes President.

The personal, the political, and the Foundation are so intertwined as to be one enterprise.

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

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

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

According to one report, the GOP’s longest living former President plans to vote for a Democrat this fall.

The sense of national ‘unity’ that existed in the wake of the September 11th attacks didn’t last for very long.

In a ruling that could have a real impact on the 2016 election, the Supreme Court has declined to grant a stay to a lower court ruling striking down a North Carolina law that tightened Voter ID laws and restricted early voting.

Sorry Donald Trump, but most Americans believe that people here illegally deserve a path to citizenship and oppose building a border wall.

A Federal Court has barred the Federal Government from enforcing guidelines on the rights of transgender students in public schools.

President Obama is being criticized for remaining on vacation while Louisiana deals with historic flooding.

America’s largest voting bloc is heavily turned off by Donald Trump, and that is posing long-term problems for Republicans in general.

Not surprisingly, Latino voters are heavily turned off by Donald Trump and seemingly quite eager to vote against him in the fall.

Another day, another round of irresponsible demagoguery from Donald Trump.

Donald Trump’s strange relationship with reality continues to come to light,

President Obama’s ISIS policy has been far from perfect, but to call him a “Founder” of ISIS is to ignore both history and reality.

It just keeps getting worse.

New polling from the states has good news for Hillary Clinton, and an even less plausible path to 270 for Donald Trump.

The first round of post-convention polls is now complete, and it’s not looking good for The Donald.

It’s been a bad week for Donald Trump, something he can ill-afford with less than 100 days left until Election Day.

A Federal Judge in North Dakota has struck down that state’s Voter ID Law, the fourth such decision in less than a month.

Looking at the Electoral College, it’s already apparent that Donald Trump’s campaign faces a daunting, perhaps impossible, path to victory.

The worst convention in history has given Trump a yuuge bounce.

Donald Trump started out his campaign by telling us that the American dream is dead, and he returned to those dark and pessimistic themes in his acceptance speech last night.00

President Obama will leave office as the first two term President who presided over eight years of war. It didn’t start with him and it won’t end with him.

As President Obama starts campaigning for Hillary Clinton, a perennial question arises.

Mississippi tried to provide special protection to opponents of same-sex marriage and transgender rights. A Federal District Court Judge, properly, finds the law to be unconstitutional.

Depending on the outcome of the election, the Supreme Court’s just concluded term will most likely be remembered as the point at which the Court’s rightward tilt that began at the end of the Warren Court Era came to an end.

Many pundits are arguing that the victory for ‘Leave’ presages good news for Trump in November, but there’s no reason to believe that.

A revered Republican foreign policy guru has endorsed the Democratic nominee for president.

The head of the Federal Reserve tells Congress that the economy is unlikely to enter recession this years, but isn’t exactly going to be booming either.

The Trump campaign is out with its own ‘short list’ of potential running mates.

A small group of Republican delegates is apparently discussing yet another quixotic effort to deny Donald Trump the nomination.

Republican leaders and politicians continue to distance themselves from their party’s presumptive nominee.