Outside the Beltway

Once something that generally benefited Republicans, social issues are now becoming a wedge issue for Democrats.

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

A somewhat surprising win in Georgia.

If current trends holds, Democratic candidates are going to have a problem turning out voters in November.

Down to the wire in Mississippi.

Public cynicism about politics at its very best.

A pattern continues.

Do Voter ID laws really suppress voter turnout? The evidence from at least one state doesn’t prove it.

Polls in Virginia don’t open for another 48 hours or so, but the end result has become fairly apparent when you look at the polls.

Some interesting polls out of Virginia today, but McAuliffe is still the clear leader in this race.

Mayor Booker is now Senator-Elect Booker.

Reports of the death of the Voting Rights Act have been greatly exaggerated.

A new theory circulating on the right asserts that IRS targeting of Tea Party groups had an impact on the 2012 elections by diminish the Tea Party’s effectiveness. It’s mostly nonsense.

There are risks to Republicans in blocking immigration reform, but there are also incentives for them to block immigration reform. Getting past that contradiction to passage isn’t going to be easy.

2012’s election represented a significant change in voting patterns in the United States. What’s unclear is if the change is a permanent one.

Republicans are going to get trounced among Latino voters tomorrow, and they only have themselves to blame.