Outside the Beltway

A weirdly ineradicable nuisance.

As widely expected, yesterday’s “jungle primary” in the Louisiana Governor’s race ended with nobody winning a majority.

Various federal and state agencies are enforcing existing laws while Congress scrambles to update them.

Hospital phone lines are being overwhelmed.

National Republicans are increasingly concerned that an upstart, racist candidate who has unleashed personal attacks on Mitch McConnell’s family will sneak through and win tomorrow’s primary to decide who will face Joe Manchin in November.

A gadfly candidate who has denied the truth of the Holocaust won a GOP primary in Illinois because nobody ran against him.

Polling remains uncertain in the Alabama Senate race, but the odds favor Roy Moore.

There’s a Special Election in Montana tomorrow, and the Democratic candidate is performing far above expectations.

Democrats came close to picking up what has been a solidly Republican seat for nearly forty years but ended up falling short. Instead, we’ll have a runoff in two months.

The FCC appears set to “encourage” telephone companies to install robocall blocking technology. Pollsters are panicking.

Let’s ban robocalls.

A new poll appears to show Newt Gingrich surging in New Hampshire, but there are several caveats to take into account.