Outside the Beltway

The GOP donor class would like the 2016 race to be short and sweet, but that’s unlikely to happen.

How will Republicans react if, as many expect, the Supreme Court legalizes same-sex marriage across the nation?

The House approved a bill to protest the President’s executive action on immigration that will go nowhere. The question is whether it will placate the right.

Ben Carson is not a serious candidate for President, but he’s likely to get a lot of support from the GOP’s Tea Party wing.

It’s an old story. Republican leadership wants to avoid a government shutdown, but the hard core conservatives want a fight, this time over the President’s immigration action. We have a week to see how it unfolds.

Some on the right are suggesting that Congress retaliate against the President’s executive action on immigration by refusing to invite him to give the State Of The Union Address.

The numbers don’t lie, Mitt Romney remains popular among Republican voters.

The House of Representatives has filed its lawsuit against the President. As expected, it doesn’t amount to much.

The fact that Republicans lack anything approaching a coherent immigration plan makes it hard to take their criticism of the President seriously.

When push comes to shove, top Republicans may still try to make Mitt Romney happen.

Top Republicans worry that their party’s response to the President’s executive action will alienate Latinos. However, there’s little they can do about that.

A new poll provides some interesting context to the political context to the President’s expected executive action on immigration.

An adviser close to Hillary Clinton is talking about expanding the Electoral College map in 2016, but even without such an expansion the GOP faces an uphill battle.

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

Post-election polling shows that the majority of Americans want the new GOP majority in Congress to work together with the President. Republican voters have a very different view.

The GOP’s big wins last week seem to be just guaranteeing that this year’s battle between the Tea Party and the “establishment” will continue.

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

Republicans performed better among Latino voters this year than they did in 2012, but that doesn’t mean they’ve solved their problems.

In addition to gains at the national level and in Governor’s races, the GOP also saw more gains in state legislatures around the country.

Trying to explain one of the biggest surprises of Election Night 2014.

Tuesday’s Republican wave didn’t change the fundamentals.

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

What happened Tuesday? And what does it tell us about 2016?

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

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

Arguably the most surprising Senate race of 2014 was in Virginia, and it’s not over yet.

That word may not mean what you think it means.

Rebranding alone isn’t going to fix what’s causing the GOP to lose ground among a whole host of demographic groups.

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

The odds say that the GOP will end up with a Senate majority in the 114th Congress when all the votes are counted, but if it doesn’t happen then there’s likely to be quite a battle inside the GOP.

Once again, reporters and pundits are arguing that Chris Christie’s “New Jersey style” won’t play well on the stump. I’m not so sure they’re right.

Kentucky Senator Rand Paul continues to challenge Republican orthodoxy on foreign policy, and that’s a good thing.

Republican Senate candidate Ed Gillespie picked an odd issue on which to start his closing argument to Virginia voters.

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.

It’s been three months, but there’s been no action on the lawsuit that the House of Representatives said it was filing against President Obama.

The most bizarre race of 2014 is finally over.

Despite conventional wisdom, there remains little incentive for the GOP to change its position on immigration reform.

Everything old is new again.

Mitt Romney 2016? Not as far as his wife is concerned.

Democrats are starting to worry that low turnout could turn a good year for the GOP into a very good year.

Bill Scher examines “How Republicans Lost the Culture War.”

Mike Huckabee is threatening to leave the GOP if the party backs down on same-sex marriage. He’s bluffing.

Is former Senator Larry Pressler surging in his Independent bid to win back his old Senate seat?

The Supreme Court has given the GOP a way out of a battle that they are going to lose anyway.

The death of the Tea Party is greatly exaggerated.