Outside the Beltway

If the GOP wins the Senate in November, their majority could prove to be fleeting.

Could the GOP offer a positive governing agenda if they controlled Congress?

It has nothing to do with winning, but it does have a lot to do with the foreign policy debate inside the Republican Party.

Opponents of marriage equality clearly don’t like the idea of a “big tent” in the GOP on the issue.

While it still seems unlikely that he’ll run, Mitt Romney does seem to be leaving the door open to a third run at the White House.

The Kansas Supreme Court may have just upended the battle for control of the U.S. Senate

The GOP has bounced back significantly from the lows it experienced after last year’s government shutdown.

President Obama hits new job approval lows, while the GOP seems poised for success in November,

The Kansas Senate race is becoming unexpectedly interesting.

Two men in North Carolina are free after spending 31 years in prison for a crime they didn’t commit.

A political earthquake in the Sunflower State that could have a big impact on the battle for control of the Senate.

Two prominent Republican groups point out the blindingly obvious.

So far at least, there is no evidence that 2014 will be a “wave election.”

If Republicans win the Senate, what we’ve seen for the past three years could end up seeming tame by comparison.

In what would be a classic bit of political irony, polling indicates that the House lawsuit against the President could make Democrats more likely to vote in November.

The GOP has a good chance of taking the Senate in 2014, but it will be by a narrow margin.

It’s hard for a party to win four straight presidential elections. The Democrats may pull it off.

A big setback for Mississippi’s erstwhile Tea Party candidate for Senate.

Tea Party backed candidates may have lost most of the GOP primary battles, but they’ve won the war for control of the Republican agenda.

Once something that generally benefited Republicans, social issues are now becoming a wedge issue for Democrats.

For a party that says its not interested in impeachment, the GOP sure keeps bringing it up.

Republicans in the House seem determined to make life difficult for whomever wins the GOP nomination in 2016

Once again, Republicans demonstrate why they have problems with Latino voters.

The Tea Party v. “establishment” battle in the GOP has been pretty one-sided this year.

Six weeks have passed since the primary, and Chris McDaniel has revealed he really doesn’t have much to complain about other than the fact that he lost.

Ugh.

Your tax dollars, not at work.

It wasn’t the Democrats.

The trial of former Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell and his wife opened yesterday, and it sounded more like a soap opera than a legal proceeding.

Republicans are dismissing talk of impeachment as a Democratic fundraising ploy, but it may be they are protesting just a bit too much.

Once again the GOP finds itself on the wrong side of public opinion.

Relying on the policies of a man who was President in a very different time is not a substitute for a rational foreign policy.

It’s beginning to look like the 2016 race for the Republican nomination will have its own collection of oddballs.

Recent polls notwithstanding, Republicans and Democrats remain largely in lockstep when it comes to U.S. policy toward Israel.

The Texas Senator is threatening to block any bill dealing with the border crisis that doesn’t defund the relief President Obama granted to children of illegal immigrants last year.

A lot of Republicans dislike the President enough to think that he should be removed from office, but will that make impeachment more likely to happen?

It seems improbable, but the national landscape on same-sex marriage is changing so quickly that even the Republican Party may find itself changing faster than some might think.

Rick Perry and Rand Paul are highlighting what looks to be a coming battle inside the GOP over foreign policy.

It appears that the GOP still has a problem communicating with women.

Just in time for the midterms, Todd Akin is back to remind voters of the GOP’s problems with female voters.

Led by Speaker John Boehner, Republican leaders are trying to placate calls for impeachment.

What could possibly go wrong?