Outside the Beltway

Fresh off his third statewide win in four years, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker appears to be getting ready to run for President.

The Keystone XL pipeline bill is dead until the next Senate. Mary Landrieu’s political career, on the other hand, is basically dead for the foreseeable future.

Approval of the Keystone XL pipeline will likely pass the Senate today, and will eventually go forward despite an expected Presidential veto. But, Mary Landrieu’s political career is still dead.

Another round of election losses is leading Democrats to contemplate the direction they should take going forward.

Same-sex marriage advanced in Kansas and South Carolina yesterday, and will soon be law in Montana, but the Supreme Court is what matters now,

Mary Landrieu’s Keystone XL Hail Mary isn’t going to save her.

The GOP is dominant in the Southern United States, but it’s unlikely to last as long as Democratic dominance of the region did.

Voter Turnout was lower this year than in any midterm since the one held eleven months after the attack on Pearl Harbor.

Looking into uncontested and partially contest House districts from the 2014 cycle.

The party’s loss of Senate control has basically sealed Landrieu’s fate.

An unsurprising ruling from the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals that only seems to bring closer the day when same-sex marriage will be legal nationwide.

Despite speculation, both Angus King and Joe Manchin will stay with the Democratic caucus. And that makes sense for both of them.

2014 was not supposed to be a wave election, but it clearly qualifies as one.

Time to look into the crystal ball.

Early numbers seem to suggest that it depends on which state you’re looking at.

The B.C.S. was far from perfect, and the College Football Playoff system will be, at best, only slightly better.

Things are looking good for the GOP to take over the Senate, but there are still several right races that could tip the balance one way or the other.

There’s at least a 50-50 chance we won’t know who controls the Senate until weeks after Election Day.

To a large degree, the Democratic Party’s supposed advantage among women voters appears to not exist this year.

Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott has made an incredibly weak argument in favor of his state’s ban on same-sex marriage.

In the space of one week, we’ve gone from 19 states that recognize same-sex marriage to 29. Soon, it will be 35.

The death of the Tea Party is greatly exaggerated.

By failing to act, the Supreme Court has effectively legalized same-sex marriage in eleven more states.

Does the seriousness of a crime vary depending on the gender of the parties involved?

Combining politics, an incessantly sensationalist news cycle, and a virus that scares a lot of people can’t end well.

The idea that the N.F.L. “doesn’t pay taxes” is largely false.

Two weeks after it seemed to be tightening, there are signs the battle for control of the Senate may be moving in the GOP’s direction.

Justice Ginsburg had some interesting things to say about the same-sex marriage cases headed to the Supreme Court.

A number of factors unique to 2014 make it likely that control of the Senate could be up in the air for months after Election Day.

Republicans still have an advantage, but Democrats seem to be holding their own in the battle for Senate control.

The Army brass is worried about its diversity in critical mid-level posts.

For purely political reasons, the Administration is delaying the announcement of new executive action on immigration.

Another Federal appellate Court has struck down state law bans on same-sex marriage, but the only thing that matters now is the Supreme Court.

A lower court judge has upheld the Louisiana Constitution’s limitation of marriage to “one man and one woman.”

Cowardice, or politically prudent?

So far at least, there is no evidence that 2014 will be a “wave election.”

In what would be a classic bit of political irony, polling indicates that the House lawsuit against the President could make Democrats more likely to vote in November.

The GOP has a good chance of taking the Senate in 2014, but it will be by a narrow margin.

Once again, the Tea Party has gotten the best of House GOP Leadership.

The Hobby Lobby decision could end up motivating women voters to turn out to vote against Republicans in the fall.

Once again the GOP finds itself on the wrong side of public opinion.

A case out of Louisiana raises serious First Amendment issues.

The people with the biggest voices in the GOP seem to be leading it to positions that most Americans disagree with.

A New York Federal Judge has ruled that unvaccinated children can be forced to stay home during outbreaks.