Outside the Beltway

Vermin Supreme and Paperboy Love Prince have as good a chance as Vivek Ramaswamy.

Looking back at my predictions about the 2020 Democratic race.

The Democratic wagons continue to circle around Biden.

Nate Silver now gives Biden an 87% chance of winning the nomination outright.

Evidence from the four early states is not looking promising.

The final delegate count may well be skewed.

Many people have voted for candidates who aren’t running anymore.

The billionaire has decided to stop tilting at windmills.

The 78-year-old is the Comeback Kid. And the only chance of preventing a Bernie Sanders nomination.

The vanity candidate may impact the race.

There’s no way to catch him in a six-candidate field.

Competing in fourteen states plus overseas territories in one day is expensive.

The wrong people are choosing the Democratic Party’s presidential nominee.

Two early frontrunners are being written off.

Is there a new frontrunner?

Proposed mid-stream changes could help Bloomberg, hurt Sanders, and divide the party.

Term limits and referenda may sound good, but they are terrible ideas

Next week’s Democratic debate could have as few as five candidates.

Pete Buttigieg had a very successful fundraising quarter at the same time he is rising in the polls.

Tulsi Gabbard is under fire back home for her vote on impeachment and for missing votes on the House floor.

Thursday night’s Democratic debate drew the lowest numbers of any of this season’s debates.

A much smaller debate stage led to a much better debate last night.

It’s time for the last Democratic debate of 2019, and the stage will be smaller than it has at any time in the past.

With Kamala Harris”s exit from the race, some are raising questions about why minority candidates have failed to break through in a party that has a very diverse base.

Kamala Harris, whose campaign has been floundering for months, is out of the race for the Democratic Presidential Nomination.

Kamala Harris’s once-promising campaign is nearing the end whether the candidate or her supporters wish to admit it or not.

The latest poll out of New Hampshire shows four candidates at the top in a very close race.

Andrew Yang is upset about the fact that he’s largely being ignored at the Democratic debates. He’s right, but that’s at least partly his fault.

After flirting with the idea many times over the past decade and a half, Mike Bloomberg is officially running for President.

Wednesday night’s debate drew the smallest television audience of any of the debates so far.

The fifth Democratic debate brought some candidate clashes, but hardly the no-holds-barred type of event you might expect for this late in the pre-primary process.

Taking a look at the state of the race as Democratic prepare to clash in tonight’s fifth debate.

Former Vice-President Joe Biden continues to hold a strong lead in South Carolina even while slipping in other early states.

After a promising start, Kamala Harris’s campaign appears to be in crisis mode.

More good news for Mayor Pete.

A new poll shows Pete Buttigieg surging in Iowa, where the Caucuses are 92 days away.

One political scientist says yes. A bunch of others say wait, what?

The newest entrant is outperforming most rivals but is intensely disliked.

Two weeks after the most recent debate, Joe Biden and Elizabeth Warren are pulling ahead in the polls.

Based on a number of factors, it appears that the Democratic field for 2020 has shrunk from more than 20 to just 5 viable candidates. Is there room for more?

The stage for the sixth Democratic debate in December is likely to be much smaller.

The first round of polls after last week’s debate has good news for the former Vice-President.

The fourth Democratic debate saw a viewership dip from September, but there are likely some good reasons for that.

Elizabeth Warren took most of the fire during last night’s fourth Democratic debate, which will likely go a long way toward winnowing down a crowded field.

With twelve Democrats set to clash tonight in Ohio, it’s time to take a look at the state of the race.

The next Democratic Debate will have the most people on stage at one time of any debate so far.

The criteria for the November and December debate will make it much harder for some Democrats to get on the national stage. That isn’t a bad thing.

The latest Des Moines Register poll puts Joe Biden and Elizabeth Warren at the top of the pack in the Hawkeye State.

For the most part, the third debate appears to have had little immediate impact on the race for the Democratic nomination.

After falling for the second debate, ratings were back near record levels for the third debate.