Outside the Beltway

Time to start talking about lame ducks?

The 7 seats most likely to switch parties are held by Democrats.

More bad poll numbers for the President and his party.

It wasn’t a Thermonuclear move, more like something the size of Hiroshima, but today the Senate took an historic move nonetheless.

The Employment Non-Discrimination Act passed the Senate yesterday but it’s unlikely to go much further.

Fifty years after the Stand in the Schoolhouse door, there’s another standoff with recalcitrant states on civil rights.

Several conservative groups have jumped on the bandwagon of what appears to be a controversial Mississippi politician.

Two veteran reporters, including the dean of the Virginia press corps, have been fired by the AP after falsely reporting that Terry McAuliffe lied to federal authorities.

Polling looks bleak for the GOP right now, but it’s unclear what that will mean a year from now.

The GOP’s approval numbers have fallen like a stone, but it’s unclear whether this will matter in 2014.

The Senate may be headed for an historic confrontation today if an 11th hour deal isn’t reached.

The GOP’s chances to take over the Senate became much better over the weekend.

An absolutely ridiculous criminal case out of West Virginia.

As of today, John Dingell has been a Member of Congress for 20,997 days, a new record. That’s not something to celebrate.

The United States is as politically polarized as it was in 1865.

The prospects for gun control appear to be dimming.

The Manchin/Toomey proposal on background checks isn’t perfect, but it isn’t horrible either.

Much touted snowstorm set the DC area atwitter, only to fall short of expectations and yield derision.

About 8.1 percent of U.S. workers have commutes of 60 minutes or longer and nearly 600,000 have “megacommutes” of at least 90 minutes and 50 miles.

The GOP seems to be drawing all the wrong lessons from the 2012 elections.

Josh Marshall explains what it’s like to be a non-gun person in a very pro-gun culture.

No Labels is attempting to relaunch itself after amounting to exactly nothing in the 2012 cycle. Let me save you the trouble: They won’t matter in 2014 or 2016, either.

In “Eyes on the Prize,” Chuck Culpepper looks at Saban’s first season as a head coach, with Toledo, way back in 1989-90. It seems that Nick Saban has been Nick Saban for a very long time.

The Mid-Atlantic region is under the gun.

Mitt Romney visited an Ohio coal mine to promote jobs in the industry, unwittingly showing why a job in the industry sucks.

Andrew Hacker argues that, while quantitative skills are “critical for informed citizenship and personal finance,” making kids master algebra to graduate high school has disastrous consequences.

A new study suggests that taxing millionaires sends millionaires to somewhere that doesn’t tax millionaires.