Outside the Beltway

Harry Reid think it’s his Constitutional duty spend other people’s money and bring it home to Nevada. His constituents seem to have other ideas this year.

More numbers for campaign 2010–in this case, ones that show the maintenance of the status quo in several states.

Thomas Friedman engages in some early speculation about a serious third party presidential run. As usual, such speculation ignores the basic structures of American politics.

Even with some key seats trending Democrat, Republicans are primed to take over both Houses of Congress come November 2.

A new projection of Congressional reapportionment shows a dramatic shift to traditionally Republican states in the South and Southwest.

The effort to repeal Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell suffered a setback in the Senate today that likely delays any further moves on the issue until after the midterm elections.

The UFCW of Nevada pays temporary workers minimum wage to demand fair treatment and wages from Wal-Mart.

Sarah Palin had a very good track record in her primary season endorsements, but it’s not at all clear that she will have much of an impact on the 2010 General Election.

Now we get to see how the Tea Party effects the GOP ove the medium to long term.

Some thoughts on the Delware Senate race and the state of the GOP.

The Delaware GOP primary continues to get more intertesting.

With Rahm Emanuel apparently set to leave the White House to run for Mayor of Chicago, speculation is turning to who may replace him in what some have called the nation’s de facto Prime Minister-ship.

For most of the year, a GOP takeover in the Senate seemed beyond the realm of possibility. That’s no longer the case.

The idea that we are in the middle of an illegal immigration crisis is not supported by the evidence.

More audio from Angle’s past interviews.

Delaware’s September 14th Republican Senate Primary is shaping up to be the next battle between the Establishment GOP and the Tea Party movement.

The Nevada Senate race is, in many ways, a three-way in which none of the above could be a spoiler for Angle.

The numbers still show an exceptionally close Senate race in Nevada. They also show that a different GOP nominee would have meant a very different scenario.

Another set of bad economic numbers are out today, and one wonders when we’ll start getting the good news.

Sarah Palin’s decision to back a long-shot candidate in the GOP Senate primary in Alaska didn’t exactly work out as planned.

Financially strapped schools are passing an increasing amount of ordinary costs on to parents.

Harry Reid has spent the summer trying to portray is opponent as a kook. So far, it’s working.

Sharron Angle’s views about the role of religion in politics are disturbingly similar to those of people who believe that the Bible itself should be the law of the land.

November’s elections will set modern records for most Senate seats and governorships on the ballot.

Sharron Angle has moved on from Second Amendment solutions to First Commandment ones…

Despite her mis-steps, Sharron Angle still has a shot at beating Harry Reid in November

As the campaign in Kentucky heats up for the final sprint to November, Rand Paul seems to have succeeded in moving beyond many of the mis-steps that plagued him three months ago.

A growing number of conservatives are in dismay about the state of their movement.

Angle is smartly focusing her commercials on the economy, and it is helping her numbers.

Crist’s gamble continues to appear to have been a good one.

The scumbags at WikiLeaks have published a huge trove of classified documents provided to them by one or more traitors in our military.