Outside the Beltway

“You can’t be against everything.”

A twist on an evergreen debate.

Some agree with him. Many others are cowards. But there’s more to it.

Thad Cochran, who represented Mississippi in Congress for 45 years, has died at the age of 81.

In the end, the race between Cindy Hyde-Smith and Mike Espy was not even close.

Republican Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith has made several mistakes since Election Day, but she’s likely to win tomorrow’s runoff election.

With the recounts over we can officially say that Rick Scott will be the next Senator from Florida.

For better or worse, here are my projections for the midterm elections.

A Senate race in Mississippi could end up being the deciding factor in the battle for control of the Senate.

For a number of reasons, we may not know the outcome of the midterm elections on Election Night.

With the primaries over, we can say that it’s been quite a successful year for women in politics.

The GOP’s hold on the Bob Corker’s Senate seat in Tennessee may be in jeopardy.

Mississippi’s Governor has chosen a replacement for Thad Cochran, but the White House isn’t too happy about the pick.

The nominations of Mike Pompeo and Gina Haspel could be in trouble in the Senate.

The 80-year-old Mississippi Republican, who was first elected to the Senate in 1978 after serving six years in the House, has been in poor health.

The final version of the tax bill appears to be on track for passage, but the devil is in the details.

Roy Moore’s victory in Alabama is raising fears of a wider battle in the Republican Party heading into 2018.

Senior Republican Senators are throwing cold water on the idea of eliminating the filibuster.

A new poll shows that the Tea Party movement is more unpopular than it has ever been before, even among Republicans and conservatives.

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.

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

Voter Turnout was lower this year than in any midterm since the one held eleven months after the attack on Pearl Harbor.

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.

The most bizarre race of 2014 is finally over.

The death of the Tea Party is greatly exaggerated.

Chris McDaniel’s meritless, quixotic challenge to the Mississippi GOP Senate Primary is reaching it’s expected conclusion.

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

No, it’s not over yet.

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.

Turnout to date for the 2014 primaries is at record lows, but its unclear what that tells us about November.

Thad Cochran has been officially certified as the winner of the Mississippi GOP Primary Runoff Election, but it’s not over yet.

The votes have been counted, the result is clear, but the battle between Senator Thad Cochran and Chris McDaniel continues to get stranger by the day.

Mississippi goes from bizarre to, well, even more bizarre.

Parties do not own voters, and the job of campaigns is to attract voters.

Chris McDaniel and his Tea Party supporters are being very sore losers.

Incumbency is a powerful advantage.

After appearing to be at the end of his political career, Thad Cochran has pulled off a surprising victory over his Tea Party backed challenger.

Congressional elections have become “nationalized” to a far greater extent than they have ever been.

Down to the wire in Mississippi.

From the beginning, the Tea Party has shown itself to be just plain bad at picking candidates. This year, they finally seem to be on the verge of paying for it in the GOP primaries

It’s a bit too early for Republicans to be celebrating that Senate majority that so many people are predicting.

Ted Cruz keeps putting his own party in difficult situations, mostly because he has only his own ambition at heart.