Outside the Beltway

With the lone exception of Bill Clinton in 1996, Arizona hasn’t gone for a Democrat since 1948. That streak could end this year.

John McCain said that Senate Republicans will unite to block any Supreme Court appointment by a President Hillary Clinton.

With just over three weeks before Election Day, efforts by top Republicans to disavow their party’s nominee are quite clearly too little, too late.

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

Nothing that happens tonight during the Vice-Presidential debate is likely to matter, so feel free to skip it.

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

As expected, John McCain easily defeated his primary opponent yesterday.

With ten weeks to go ,there’s been some tightening in the polls but Hillary Clinton continues to maintain a commanding lead in the race for the White House.

John McCain is bidding for a sixth term in office, with a challenge from the right in tomorrow’s primary and Donald Trump at the top of the ticket in November.

It’s eleven weeks — just 77 days — until Election Day, and things are looking pretty good for Hillary Clinton, and pretty bad for Donald Trump.

A Trump loss in November could lead to battles inside the GOP that could take years to resolve.

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.

With Donald Trump floundering, there are a whole lot of nervous Republican Senators up for re-election.

Donald Trump’s support among African-Americans is at historic lows, and seems unlikely to recover.

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.

More Republican officeholders are distancing themselves from Donald Trump, but it’s time to start wondering what took them so long,

The latest desperation bid from anti-Trump Republicans is guaranteed to make a GOP civil war more likely.

The Old Dominion seems like it’s going to be even more firmly Democratic in 2016.

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.

Donald Trump continues to be Donald Trump. Which is quickly turning into a political disaster.

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

Eight years after beating her for the Democratic Nomination, Barack Obama passed the torch to Hillary Clinton with a speech that sounded more like Ronald Reagan than anything we’ve heard from the Republican nominee.

As expected, Hillary Clinton went with the ‘safe’ choice, and has selected Virginia Senator Tim Kaine as her running mate.

A look at the state of the race before the two party conventions begin.

The least likely choice ascends to the Number Two position on the Republican ticket.

If reports are correct, Indiana Governor Mike Pence will be Donald Trump’s choice for a running mate.

It’s still early in the cycle, but Donald Trump’s poll numbers are already historically bad.

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

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

Donald Trump’s latest outbursts are causing Republicans to move away from him faster than you can say “electoral disaster.”

The Senate has passed an amendment to a military spending bill that would require women to register for the draft.

Hillary Clinton easily won the final contest of the 2016 primary season, and the Clinton-Sanders reconciliation dance began.

With the race for the Democratic nomination over, President Obama is ready to hit the campaign trail for Hillary Clinton.

Donald Trump’s open contempt for the Rule of Law and Freedom of the Press should disqualify him from being considered an acceptable candidate for President.

An increasing number of Republican politicians are finding reasons to skip the Republican National Convention.

It’s not going to happen.

A first look at the Electoral College paints a very grim picture for Donald Trump and the GOP.

Answering a question that gets a lot.

If you think this campaign has been awful, you ain’t seen nothin’ yet.

Donald Trump’s win last night made him the presumptive Republican nominee, whether Republicans will unify around him is another question.

In an unprecedented move that reeks of desperation, Ted Cruz is naming Carly Fiorina as his running mate before the primary process has even ended.

Another round of victories puts Donald Trump another step closer to the Republican nomination.

The two men most likely to win the Republican nomination aren’t very well liked outside the Republican Party.

Nebraska legislators are talking about abandoning their somewhat unique method of allocating Electoral College votes.