Outside the Beltway

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.