Outside the Beltway

Data from the early primaries

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

The Washington Post proves that, no matter how hard you try, you can’t cover some stories neutrally.

Shockingly, both “incumbents” are going to win their party’s 2024 nominations.

The race to be the top loser in the GOP primary process just lost a competitor.

Republicans want him but do they really, really want him?

Vermin Supreme and Paperboy Love Prince have as good a chance as Vivek Ramaswamy.

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

And this doesn’t even clear them all!

The longtime politician and statesman is gone at 75.

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

There was some quiet meddling going on.

Looking back at my predictions about the 2020 Democratic race.

The math compelled it. But he outlasted several better-known candidates.

The plurality of New Hampshire voters are unaffiliated. Should they all stay at home?

There’s a campaign to encourage anti-Trump Republicans and independents to vote in New Hampshire.

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

The leading papers in Iowa and New Hampshire are backing Klobuchar and Warren, respectively.

The latest poll out of New Hampshire shows four candidates at the top in a very close race.

Many of the 2020 Democratic candidates for President are arguing that the caucus process itself is unfair and undemocratic. They’re right.

Mike Bloomberg is apparently entering the race for the Democratic nomination.

Bernie Sanders won the New Hampshire Primary by a huge margin in 2016. This time, he’s slipping in the polls as other candidates rise ahead of him.

Three new polls show significant changes in the Democratic race in the wake of last week’s debates.

The first Democratic debate drew record numbers on both nights.

WIth the top two candidates in the race on the same stage, the second night of the first Democratic debate was much feistier than the first night.

Former Massachusetts Governor Bill Weld has officially joined the race for the 2020 Republican Presidential nomination

Former Massachusetts Governor Bill Weld is preparing for a primary challenge against Donald Trump. He won’t win, but he could still have an impact.

New polling indicates that a solid majority of Democrats are more interested in finding a candidate who can beat Donald Trump in 2020 than they are with finding a candidate that agrees with them on specific issues.

New Jersey Senator Cory Booker is the latest entrant into the race for the 2020 Democratic Nomination.

While much of the attention in the race for the Democratic nomination to date has been on the left, there is a path forward for a more centrist candidate.

Could Maryland Governor Larry Hogan be just the kind of Republican to challenge Trump in 2020?

Tennessee will have an open Senate seat in 2020 thanks to Lamar Alexander’s decision to retire at the end of his current term.

Former Vice-President Biden and Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders are, not surprisingly, leading the early polls for the 2020 Democratic nomination.

Cory Booker’s interest in running for President has been an open secret for some time, now he’s being far less coy about it.

It would be a rather quixotic effort, but Jeff Flake isn’t ruling out challenging the President for the Republican nomination in 2020.

Barbara Bush, only the second woman in history to be the wife and mother of a U.S. President, has died at the age of 92.

New York Senator Kristen Gillibrand says Bill Clinton should have resigned over his affair with Monica Lewinsky. Raising the question of just how stringently we should apply the standards of today to the events of the past.

John McCain has been standing out from his fellow Republicans largely by unleashing on President Trump, and it is unlikely to end anytime soon.

Donald Trump is unlikely to ever be a popular President, but that may not matter.

President Trump’s decision to share highly classified information with the Russians is yet another demonstration of his dangerous hubris and incompetence.

Several former candidates for President are emerging as potential candidates for Senate.

Post-convention polling at the state level holds some bad news for the Trump campaign.

Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders are close in Wisconsin, and that’s bad news for Bernie Sanders.

Ted Cruz and Donald Trump are locked in battle in a primary that could decide whether or not Donald Trump can get a majority of delegates prior to the GOP Convention.

A big night in the Republican race for President leaves Donald Trump as the only candidate realistically situated to be anywhere near a majority of delegates by the time the primaries end in June.

Two more Republican Governors endorse Donald Trump.

With one surprise endorsement, Donald Trump stole the post-debate news cycle from Marco Rubio.