Outside the Beltway

With just one day to go, Clinton’s paths to victory continue to look far more realistic than Donald Trump’s.

It has become necessary to destroy the party in order to save it.

Journalistic malpractice has real consequences.

A look at the Electoral College shows that It is far more likely that Hillary Clinton will win the election than that Donald Trump will.

I’ve been something of a political news junkie for 40 years now. This year has burned me out.

Seven days from now, millions of Americans will be headed to the polls. So far at least, Hillary Clinton is still the front runner.

Early voting is favoring Democrats in a wide variety of swing states.

The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case involving Federal law and the rights of transgender students.

Get ready for more hearings if Hillary Clinton becomes President.

Two weeks before Election Day, everything seems to be going Hillary Clinton’s way.

As we head into the second Presidential debate, Hillary Clinton looks to be in very good shape.

Republicans are abandoning Donald Trump in droves after last night’s revelation of lewd remarks he made in 2005.

With five weeks to go, the momentum in the race is moving decidedly in Hillary Clinton’s favor.

The Supreme Court begins another term faced with the prospect of having to spend much of their time dealing with the fact that they’re short a member.

Donald Trump appears to be pushing voters from America’s fastest growing minority group into the Democratic camp.

Once again, the debate commission controlled by the two major parties is excluding third-party candidates from the Presidential debates.

The sense of national ‘unity’ that existed in the wake of the September 11th attacks didn’t last for very long.

North Korea continues to advance its nuclear program but it’s unclear what anyone can do about it.

After a unanimous Supreme Court victory, Bob McDonnell won’t be facing another corruption trial.

Evan McMullin’s quixotic campaign for President continues.

It’s the traditional start of the campaign season, and the race for President is getting close, at least at the national level.

After some two weeks in which it seemed like he might be moderating, Donald Trump doubled down on the most anti-immigrant portions of his immigration plan.

With ten weeks to go ,there’s been some tightening in the polls but Hillary Clinton continues to maintain a commanding lead in the race for the White House.

The “independent conservative” running for President is finding it hard to even get on the ballot.

It’s eleven weeks — just 77 days — until Election Day, and things are looking pretty good for Hillary Clinton, and pretty bad for Donald Trump.

A Federal Court has barred the Federal Government from enforcing guidelines on the rights of transgender students in public schools.

Another poll confirms that Virginia is firmly in the pocket of Hillary Clinton.

Donald Trump has spent more time recently attacking the news media than anything else. He ought to be condemned for it.

Not surprisingly, Latino voters are heavily turned off by Donald Trump and seemingly quite eager to vote against him in the fall.

Donald Trump’s path to 270 Electoral Votes is becoming less likely by the day.

Donald Trump’s strange relationship with reality continues to come to light,

With Donald Trump floundering, there are a whole lot of nervous Republican Senators up for re-election.

A new poll shows Donald Trump barely winning in a state that should be solidly red.

Republican hopes that Wisconsin might go Republican this year seem to be slipping away.

Donald Trump’s support among African-Americans is at historic lows, and seems unlikely to recover.

It just keeps getting worse.

Did Donald Trump really suggest assassination as a political weapon, even as a joke? It sure sounds like it.

New polling from the states has good news for Hillary Clinton, and an even less plausible path to 270 for Donald Trump.

More Republican officeholders are distancing themselves from Donald Trump, but it’s time to start wondering what took them so long,

The Old Dominion seems like it’s going to be even more firmly Democratic in 2016.

In a sign of just how bad the trends are right now for Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton is gaining ground in states that Mitt Romney won four years ago.

It’s been a bad week for Donald Trump, something he can ill-afford with less than 100 days left until Election Day.

Post-convention polling at the state level holds some bad news for the Trump campaign.

Looking at the Electoral College, it’s already apparent that Donald Trump’s campaign faces a daunting, perhaps impossible, path to victory.

More than any politician that spoke last night, it was the father of a fallen solider who stole the night.

As expected, Hillary Clinton went with the ‘safe’ choice, and has selected Virginia Senator Tim Kaine as her running mate.

A look at the state of the race before the two party conventions begin.

Despite a year of utter failure, one group of Republicans apparently still thinks they can deny Donald Trump the Republican nomination.