Outside the Beltway

It’s all about the Benjamins.

While “fundamentals” will have more impact on choosing our next president than what happens on the campaign trail, the race itself is important.

A 1980 debate between Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush shows a different GOP.

Donald Trump says he still doesn’t know where the President was born, but he’d rather not talk about that anymore.

A Republican political consultant says Hillary Clinton is in danger of losing the nomination.

The NYT has left Ted Cruz’ new book off its bestseller list, despite it selling more copies than 18 of 20 titles on said list.

The NYT paints the longshot senator as a happy warrior trying to win the White House by doing it his way.

Former Virginia Senator Jim Webb is running for President for reasons I would assume make sense to him.

Donald Trump has gotten almost nothing but negative press since entering the race for President, but it doesn’t seem to be hurting him very much just yet.

Chris Christie is in the race for the Republican nomination, but it’s tough to see how he has a plausible path to relevance.

When you’re being paid $65,000 to speak for less than an hour, you’re pretty much the poster child for privilege.

In the wake of the latest Supreme Court decision, the Affordable Care Act seems to have become even more firmly established than it was before last week, and the prospect of repeal has become even less likely.

The events of the past two weeks could allow the Republican Party to move forward.

Bernie Sanders is closing in the polls, but it still seems as though it doesn’t mean as much as some political pundits will try to tell you it does.

If Jim Webb runs for President, he will be the only candidate in either party who is on record defending the Confederate Battle Flag. And he’s thinking of running as a Democrat.

Republicans aren’t going to like this one.

Matthew Dickinson takes a stab at explaining “Why So Many Republicans Are Running in 2016.”

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.

Jeb Bush’s campaign launch seems to be going well so far, while Rand Paul and Ted Cruz (and Donald Trump) seem to be slipping.

As early as tomorrow, the Supreme Court could issue its ruling in the latest Obamacare case. Depending on the ruling, Republicans could find themselves in a political firestorm.

More Democrats are calling themselves “liberal” than they have in years. Republicans, too.

Two new polls show Bernie Sanders rising in the polls in New Hampshire, but they likely don’t mean anything in the long term.

Hillary Clinton opened a new phase in her campaign for President yesterday with a speech in New York City.

Mitt Romney decided not to run in 2016 but he’s very much in the race.

House Democrats defied President Obama on an important trade deal today, thus arguably marking the official beginning of his lame duck status.

The American people don’t believe that liberty should be sacrificed in the name of security, but their leaders largely don’t care.

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.

A thirty-seven year long drought is over.

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

Rand Paul Is at a distinct disadvantage compared to his fellow Republican candidates for President.

Hillary Clinton remains as much the inevitable Democratic nominee as she always has been.

The “Draft Warren” movement is basically dead.

The New York Times really, really wants a horse race for the Democratic nomination.

Martin O’Malley is running for President for some reason.

Rand Paul is out with one of his more forceful attacks on Republican hawks to date.

The first batch of email from Hillary Clinton regarding the 2012 attack in Benghazi have been released, and they don’t reveal anything we didn’t already know.

The Clinton Foundation has disclosed that there were $26 million in donations that it had failed to disclose while Hillary was Secretary of State.

Hillary Clinton is a deeply flawed candidate who might not even make a very good President. But that doesn’t matter in the race for the Democratic Nomination, and she’s probably going to be the next President anyway.

Hillary Clinton has admitted she made a mistake in supporting the Iraq War in 2002, but there are plenty of other questions she needs to answer when it comes to foreign interventions.

Maryland’s former Governor will announce his candidacy for President next week. Don’t expect him to go very far.

Republicans could learn a few things from the Tory victory in the recent British elections, but they are in danger of drawing the wrong conclusions.

Drip, Drip, Drip.

Bill and Hillary Clinton have done quite well for themselves of the speaking circuit.

Hillary Clinton told supporters she’d require Supreme Court nominees to pledge to overturn Citizens United, a decision she completely misrepresented.

George Stephanopoulos’ s ties to the Clinton’s have always raised questions about his objectivity. Now, there’s further reason to doubt that he can play fair when the Clinton’s are part of the story he’s covering.

Iraq seems to becoming a political headache for yet another member of the Bush family.

Not surprisingly, the House Committee re-investigating the Benghazi attack seems more concerned with scoring political points than fact-finding.

Hillary Clinton hasn’t taken questions from reporters in three weeks. Because she doesn’t need the media as much as most other candidates.