Outside the Beltway

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.

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.

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.

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.

Lincoln Chafee began his bizarre run for the Presidency in the strangest way possible.

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.

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.

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

Bernie Sanders is running for President. He’s not going to win, but he’s not running because he thinks he can win.

Even for political junkies, the thrill seems to be gone.

The press corps is already bored.

The GOP race remains tight, but some candidates have benefited from their entry into the race more than others. Overall, though, Hillary Clinton continues to dominate.

Once again, Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren says she isn’t running for President, and has no plans to do so.

Ted Cruz kicks off with the first of what is likely to be a string of candidates getting into the 2016 race in the coming month.

The 2008 runner-up has scared off all serious challengers for 2016. Why?

Do the nonprofit’s foreign donors create a conflict of interest?

With no real opponents in the race for the Democratic nomination, Hillary Clinton has no reason to rush getting into the race.

The Republican wave extended even to Governor’s races that, in any other year, they should have lost.

If Hillary Clinton is going to have a serious challenge in 2016, the person who will do that has yet to emerge.

Obsessing over what a politician believed in the past accomplishes nothing.

Who do the Democrats have to take Joe Biden’s place?

The Democratic field for 2016 is frozen in place waiting for the presumptive frontrunner to make a decision.

Rahm Emanuel is reportedly considering a 2016 presidential run. It’s a thin report.

It’s just a few days until the 2012 campaign ends, and the jostling for position for 2016 begins.

A POLITICO analysis finds that “Obama and his top campaign aides have engaged far more frequently in character attacks and personal insults than the Romney campaign.”

Some unpleasant news for the Democrats in a new poll.

A new study suggests that taxing millionaires sends millionaires to somewhere that doesn’t tax millionaires.

If not Hillary Clinton or Joe Biden, who might the Democrats have to choose from in 2016?

Does Joe Biden think he can succeed his boss?

Upwards of 77,000 federal employees make more than the governors of the states in which they live, the Congressional Research Service reports.

The White House is making some very odd political choices in its response to the Arizona immigration law.