Outside the Beltway

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

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

After 36 years, the quadrennial absurdity of the Iowa Straw Poll is dead.

Iowa Republicans may be a day away from putting the Iowa Straw Poll out of its, and our, misery.

Obviously, most of these people are smart enough to realize they can’t possibly win, right?

Rand Paul Is at a distinct disadvantage compared to his fellow Republican candidates for President.

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

The Iowa Straw Poll seems to be dying, and that’s a good thing.

What if they held a straw poll and nobody came?

Jeb Bush will not participate in this year’s version of the Iowa Straw Poll.

Break out the sweater vests, Rick Santorum is getting ready to enter the race for the Republican Presidential Nomination.

There must be something odd in the water in the Lone Star State, because a bizarre conspiracy theory seems to have taken root there.

Rand Paul is carrying on a family tradition, winning the CPAC straw poll won many times by his father Ron.

The Kentucky Senator and medical doctor claims an undergraduate degree he doesn’t have.

Scott Walker surged to the top of a new poll of Iowa Republicans, but Iowa is not a very good predictor of success in the race for the GOP nomination.

Conservatives finally seem to be waking up to the truth about Sarah Palin.

Rick Santorum looks to be getting ready to hit the campaign trail again, but it’s doubtful he can find appeal beyond the religious conservatives who supported him in 2012.

Even leaving aside the fact that it is far too early to be making such assessments, the idea that Rand Paul is the front runner for the Republican nomination in 2016 fails the logic test.

Michele Bachmann leaves office at the end of the current Congress, but we may not have heard the last from her.

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 fact that a candidate like Mike Huckabee could win the Iowa Caucuses is the reason to end the Iowa Caucuses.

It would appear that someone needs to introduce the Air Force to Article VI of the Constitution.