Outside the Beltway

A conservative columnist argues the legitimacy of our system is in question.

From manufacturing to trade, the negative impact of Trump’s tariffs is becoming quite apparent.

The map shows the flaws of the Electoral College

A Federal Court has ruled once again in favor of a transgender student in Virginia who was prevented from using the bathroom conforming to their gender identity.

Trump’s attacks on racial minorities are going to continue, and get worse, the closer we get to 2020. Because stirring up fear and racial resentment among white working-class voters is the only way he can win.

Dozens of well-off students from the Chicago area are getting college subsidies.

Even a Fox News poll finds that the American public finds the President’s recent rhetoric to be racist. There’s a different picture when you look at his supporters, though.

He could lose the popular vote by an even larger margin in 2020—and still coast to re-election.

Bernie Sanders is finding that the 2020 campaign is very different from 2016.

New polling suggests that the President may not be benefiting from the relatively healthy economy as much as expected.

In a significant setback for challenges to partisan gerrymandering, the Supreme Court has effectively ruled that Federal Courts do not have jurisdiction to hear challenges to redistricting based on partisan motivations.

Four years ago, Donald Trump began his campaign for President. What has followed has been as bad as could have been predicted that day.

It’s still way too early to be predictive, but the latest head-to-head matches between the President and the top contenders for the Democratic nomination.

At least some conservatives appear to finally be recognizing that their movement has been taken over by grifters and frauds. The only question is, what took them so long?

The President’s foolish tariffs against Mexico are finally causing many Republican Senators to stand up against him.

Starting tomorrow, we should be getting some headline-grabbing opinions from the Supreme Court.

The Supreme Court let a ruling against students opposed to a school district policy allowing transgender students to use the bathroom corresponding to their gender identity stand.

As the Administration continues to stonewall legitimate requests from Congress for documents and witnesses, pressure is growing on Speaker Pelosi to authorize the opening of an impeachment inquiry.

A new poll shows President Trump trailing several of his potential challenger in a state that was crucial to his victory in 2016.

Recent poll numbers suggest that the President is vulnerable in the part of the country that assured his Electoral College victory in 2020, but Democrats are going to have to work hard to flip these states.

A panel of three Federal Judges has found Ohio’s Congressional District map to be unconstitutional, but a case currently pending before the Supreme Court could mute the impact of this decision.

A new poll shows President Trump struggling against four of his potential 2020 challengers. Should Republicans be worried and Democrats elated? It’s too early to tell.

A Federal Court in Michigan has found several of that state’s Congressional and state legislative districts to have been subject to extreme partisan gerrymandering.

Not surprisingly, Donald Trump fears former Vice-President Joe Biden the most of all the Democrats currently running against him.

Trump campaign officials are worried about the President’s chances of holding onto a state that was crucial to his win in 2020. They should be.

Donald Trump speaks largely just to his base, ignoring the nation as a whole. Whether this will be enough to win re-election in 2020 is an open question.

The tone and content of President Trump’s 2020 campaign is already quite apparent.

Per-student investment in public colleges has not recovered from the Great Recession.

Oral argument hints that we may have a 5-4 ruling allowing state legislatures to continue stacking the deck.

It’s the battleground states that are the issue, not small states v. large states.

For their 2020 convention, Democrats are headed to the Midwest.

A new tool for looking at possible Presidential election outcomes.

The House of Representatives voted yesterday to block the President’s declaration of an “emergency” at the southern border. Now the matter goes to the Senate.

Based on his job approval numbers, President Trump could face an uphill battle in 2020.

After a decade of using the alleged problem of “voter fraud” to justify things like Voter ID Laws, Republicans are remarkably silent in the fact of an actual example of fraud and election tampering.

Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar became the latest Democrat to enter the 2020 race on Sunday.

Bret Stephens on Howard Schultz

The way we elect Presidents make it unlikely that a third-party candidate like Howard Schultz could ever actually win the the Presidency.

Starbucks Founder Howard Schultz is considering an independent run for the Presidency. This would likely be good news for President Trump.

Looking ahead, the political landscape does not look well for the President.

Ann Althouse hits a blogging anniversary.

The Supreme Court is taking up the issue of partisan gerrymandering. This time, though, they’re likely to reach the merits of the cases rather than punting like they did last year.

The latest entry in the unity third party presidential candidate genre is just as bad as they always are.

An argument against “bothersiderism” in this case and, yet again, noting the problem with single seat districts.

On the way out the door, Scott Walker signed a bill to take powers away from his successor (and demonstrated a lack of understanding of Venn diagrams).

Gerrymandering. It’s not just for Republicans.

Jacob T. Levy has a column worth a read.

Current attempts to take power away from the state executive branch illustrates a lot of what I have been writing about for years.

Republican lawmakers in Michigan and Wisconsin are responding to their party’s losses at the Gubernatorial level by attempting to restrict the powers of the incoming Democratic Governor.

He says he won’t announce anything until after the start of 2019, but Joe Biden is sure sounding like a guy who’s running for President.