Outside the Beltway

It didn’t take long for the political battle over the seat held by the late Justice Antonin Scalia to become another part of the 2016 political battle.

The end of Webbmentum is here, my friends.

Marco Rubio was the man in the cross hairs in last night’s Republican debate.

Donald Trump continues to lead, while Marco Rubio surges, in the first polls out of New Hampshire since the Iowa Caucuses.

Marco Rubio’s campaign strategy depends on a lot of hope, and no small degree of ignoring reality.

Sarah Palin is back, and she’s endorsing Donald Trump for the Republican nomination for President.

A look at the history behind the ideology driving the standoff in Oregon.

Donald Trump is in second place, and tied, with Pope Francis, in a poll asking Americans to name the person they most admired in 2015.

Americans don’t trust their government or each other. There’s no reason to hope it’ll get better.

The first post-debate polls of the GOP race have more good news for Donald Trump.

Chris Christie has gotten the endorsement of the biggest newspaper in New Hampshire, but it’s not clear that this will have any impact on the race.

President Obama’s executive action on immigration suffered another setback in court late yesterday.

Hillary’s leading potential Republican candidates, but so is Bernie! Rand Paul does better against Hillary than other Republicans! Those are the headlines you get from head-to-head match-up polls, but it’s all largely meaningless.

In a new book, former President George H.W. Bush is highly critical of two of his son’s closest advisers in the White House.

A man with one of the more unique political and personal resumes in recent memory has passed away.

Marco Rubio has won the support of a top Republican donor and bundler, giving a much needed boost to his campaign.

Marco Rubio is taking heat for missing a lot of Senate votes since he started running for President, but he’s not really any worse than other legislators who have run for President.

Jim Webb’s campaign for the Democratic nomination has been largely forgettable, so now he’s apparently threatening to run as an Independent.

With the exception of Rand Paul, the foreign policy discussion at last night’s debate was about as bad as you’d expect.

The Republican candidates for President took to the stage last night for a debate that seemed to last forever and accomplished nothing.

To listen to many of the Republican candidates for President, it would appear that the lights have been turned out on Ronald Reagan’s shining city on a hill.

Donald Trump and Ben Carson remain at the top of the Republican Presidential field heading into the second debate on Wednesday.

The 2016 election will be fought on a very small battlefield, and right now the makeup of that battlefield heavily favors the Democrats.

CNN has revised its criteria for the main September 16th debate such that Carly Fiorina will now most likely make the cut.

None of the top eight candidates in current polls have made a previous bid for the nomination.

The buffoonish billionaire is tapping into something real.

The fallout from Donald Trump’s debate performance, and his comments afterward, continues, and it’s leading some to wonder if we may finally be at the end of this ridiculous charade.

Donald’s Trump’s campaign is the logical conclusion of more than a decade of emotion-drive, substance-free politics.

In bringing Holocaust imagery into the debate over the Iran nuclear deal, Mike Huckabee has displayed the intellectual bankruptcy of his position.

This is not a serious Presidential campaign, it is a bloviating sideshow.

Polling in three battleground states shows Hillary Clinton slightly trailing three top Republicans, but it means far less than you might think.

The Huffington Post announced today that they would not be covering Donald Trump in their politics section from this point forward. That’s the wrong thing to do.

A 1980 debate between Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush shows a different GOP.

He definitely wouldn’t appreciate it, but in some sense you can thank Robert Bork for the Supreme Court’s opinion in Obergefell v. Hodges.

The events of the past two weeks could allow the Republican Party to move forward.

Debating the proper role of the judiciary.

The Supreme Court has issued a ruling whose roots can be found in case law going back half a century.

More Democrats are calling themselves “liberal” than they have in years. Republicans, too.

Mitt Romney decided not to run in 2016 but he’s very much in the race.

House Democrats defied President Obama on an important trade deal today, thus arguably marking the official beginning of his lame duck status.

Rick Perry is hoping to do something that hasn’t happened before in American politics, come back from a campaign that imploded.

With 14 candidates vying for the Republican nomination, TV execs are scrambling to make the debates watchable.

Republicans could learn a few things from the Tory victory in the recent British elections, but they are in danger of drawing the wrong conclusions.

For reasons only he can understand. South Carolina’s senior Senator will be entering the race for the White House early next month.

Mike Huckabee’s back, but the 2008 magic is gone.

Former President Clinton doesn’t seem to get it. Or, does he?

The GOP race remains tight, but some candidates have benefited from their entry into the race more than others. Overall, though, Hillary Clinton continues to dominate.