Outside the Beltway

Data from the early primaries

Why we are where we are (at least in part).

No big surprises from the dumbest recurring contest in American politics.

Cold hard facts.

The anti-Trump forces are rallying around the former South Carolina governor and UN ambassador.

The fourth place candidate for second place in the Republican primaries has taken his ball and gone home to Mother.

The longtime politician and statesman is gone at 75.

The former President has a 50 point lead. Is he unstoppable?

One of his 2020 primary opponents is tanned, rested, and ready.

South Carolina and Georgia win! Iowa loses! New Hampshire whines!

Momentum for ending an undemocratic anachronism is building.

Will America re-elect an 82-year-old to the White House?

The combination of incompetence and a new system have the mayoral race in turmoil.

The annual gathering showed us what the Republican Party would become years ago.

That which worked for petty business disputes was never going to work on this big of a stage.

The 58-year-old may have a post-presidency unmatched in history.

An encouraging sign.

Looking back at my predictions about the 2020 Democratic race.

The final delegate count may well be skewed.

The Iowa winner and New Hampshire runner-up has acknowledged the inevitable.

Hopefully, the final tally for a contest that shouldn’t exist.

Competing in fourteen states plus overseas territories in one day is expensive.

Two early frontrunners are being written off.

Iowa and New Hampshire voters are changing the perception of the race.

The precise distribution of 41 measly delegates is now known. Unless there’s a recount.

The primary season has just started. It is almost over.

Is there a new frontrunner?

The caucus tallies are so riddled with errors that the DNC is calling for a recount.

The media coverage continues on script.

It’s more embarrassing than we thought.

We do not have results yet.

We’re right back where we started.

How Iowa works.

Proposed mid-stream changes could help Bloomberg, hurt Sanders, and divide the party.

For anyone interested in polling and/pr the Iowa Caucuses

The 2016 frontrunners at this stage won their nominations easily. But that’s often not the case.

Next week’s Democratic debate could have as few as five candidates.

Another one bites the dust.

A big fundraising quarter for the Senator from Vermont.

“Medicare For All” is the centerpiece of Elizabeth Warren’s campaign for President, but she’s not talking about it as much as she used to.

Pete Buttigieg had a very successful fundraising quarter at the same time he is rising in the polls.

A much smaller debate stage led to a much better debate last night.

It’s time for the last Democratic debate of 2019, and the stage will be smaller than it has at any time in the past.

Cory Booker’s campaign is starting to show some of the same signs of collapse that Kamala Harris’s did.

Former Congressman Joe Sestak (Who?) is ending his bid for the Democratic Presidential nomination.

Kamala Harris’s once-promising campaign is nearing the end whether the candidate or her supporters wish to admit it or not.

Rich Lowry puts preferred outcomes over constitutional process.

A Senate Impeachment trial in early January would have a serious impact on the race for the Democratic nomination.

The fifth Democratic debate brought some candidate clashes, but hardly the no-holds-barred type of event you might expect for this late in the pre-primary process.

Taking a look at the state of the race as Democratic prepare to clash in tonight’s fifth debate.