Outside the Beltway

The current Republican primary polls are “measuring a unicorn electorate” yet effect the outcome of the race.

Chris Christie says he would ignore states that have legalized marijuana if he became President. Fortunately, he will most likely never be President.

His remarks about John McCain’s military service don’t seem to be hurting Donald Trump with Republican true believers.

This is not a serious Presidential campaign, it is a bloviating sideshow.

Ohio Governor John Kasich looks good on paper, but his campaign seems as though it’s unlikely to get out of the starting gate.

Despite his remarks about John McCain, Donald Trump is likely to be around for some time to come.

Rand Paul’s Presidential campaign isn’t going so well at the moment.

There’s another round of reports about Joe Biden running for President, but I wouldn’t put much stock them.

The Huffington Post announced today that they would not be covering Donald Trump in their politics section from this point forward. That’s the wrong thing to do.

Republicans have nobody to blame but themselves for the anti-immigrant Frankenstein in their midst.

Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker has formally entered the race for President, but can he overcome his flip-flops and a turn to the hard right?

Donald Trump says he still doesn’t know where the President was born, but he’d rather not talk about that anymore.

A Republican political consultant says Hillary Clinton is in danger of losing the nomination.

The NYT paints the longshot senator as a happy warrior trying to win the White House by doing it his way.

As much as I wish it were otherwise, Iowa and New Hampshire are not losing their influence over the Presidential primary process.

Republicans are finally starting to react to what Donald Trump has been saying.

He’s second in national polls!

Taxes on wine, beer, and spirits vary wildly from state-to-state and even within each state.

Former Virginia Senator Jim Webb is running for President for reasons I would assume make sense to him.

Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker will be entering the race for President later this month, but it’s unclear if his recent turn to the hard right will help him or hurt him.

Donald Trump has gotten almost nothing but negative press since entering the race for President, but it doesn’t seem to be hurting him very much just yet.

Chris Christie is in the race for the Republican nomination, but it’s tough to see how he has a plausible path to relevance.

In an ordinary year, Ohio Governor John Kasich seems like he’d be a perfect candidate for Republicans in an era when winning the Buckeye State is essential to winning the White House. But things are far from ordinary in the GOP.

It was a close vote, but Virginia’s Republican leaders did the smart thing yesterday in picking a primary over a convention in 2016.

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.

Republicans aren’t going to like this one.

Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal enters the Presidential race today, but it’s hard to see how he even manages to become a plausible candidate.

Chris Christie appears set to enter the race for the Republican Presidential nomination, but voters back home in New Jersey don’t seem to think very highly of him anymore.

Virginia Republicans are deciding later this week how they will make their choice in the 2016 Presidential Race. And they may end up regretting their decision.

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.

Jeb Bush’s campaign launch seems to be going well so far, while Rand Paul and Ted Cruz (and Donald Trump) seem to be slipping.

Pope Francis’s new encyclical isn’t exactly being received positively by American conservatives, because they seem to be missing the point.

The Supreme Court ruled that states don’t have to grant license plates that display the Confederate flag. Their decision has the potential to seriously harm the First Amendment.

Whether Republicans are ready or not, Donald Trump is coming.

Two new polls show Bernie Sanders rising in the polls in New Hampshire, but they likely don’t mean anything in the long term.

We live in a random and chaotic universe.

To nobody’s surprise, Jeb Bush has entered the race for President.

Hillary Clinton opened a new phase in her campaign for President yesterday with a speech in New York City.

Rick Perry is hoping to do something that hasn’t happened before in American politics, come back from a campaign that imploded.

After months of “not running,” Jeb Bush will formally enter the Presidential race on June 15th.

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

Lindsey Graham is the latest entrant into the Presidential race, but it’s hard to see how he gets out of the bottom of the polls.

Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker isn’t officially a candidate for President yet, but he’s doing quite well in Iowa anyway.

The New York Times really, really wants a horse race for the Democratic nomination.

Starting tomorrow, we can expect to see the Supreme Court hand down decisions in some of its most high profile cases. Here’s a preview.

Martin O’Malley is running for President for some reason.

Donald Trump is probably just messing around with all of us again, but he’s certainly acting like someone who’s running for President.

The race for the Republican nomination is as tight as ever, and so far nobody seems to be emerging as a clear front-runner.