Outside the Beltway

A big setback for Mississippi’s erstwhile Tea Party candidate for Senate.

Tea Party backed candidates may have lost most of the GOP primary battles, but they’ve won the war for control of the Republican agenda.

Debbie Dingell is set to continue an 80 year legacy of Dingells occupying the same seat in the House of Representatives. That’s not a good thing.

No, it’s not over yet.

Despite a high profile effort to oust him, the most prominent libertarian Republican in Congress survived his primary challenge yesterday.

David Trott’s victory in Michigan’s District 11 Republican House primary marks the first time this year a Republican Establishment candidate has upset a Tea Party Incumbent.

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

Republicans in the House seem determined to make life difficult for whomever wins the GOP nomination in 2016

Once again, Republicans demonstrate why they have problems with Latino voters.

The Tea Party v. “establishment” battle in the GOP has been pretty one-sided this year.

Six weeks have passed since the primary, and Chris McDaniel has revealed he really doesn’t have much to complain about other than the fact that he lost.

Our non-competitive political system.

Once again, we are reminded that the fact that people feel strongly about an issue does not mean it’s one that will cause them to get out and vote.

Your tax dollars, not at work.

According to some reports, President Obama may be about to make an end run around Congressional inaction on immigration reform.

Republicans are dismissing talk of impeachment as a Democratic fundraising ploy, but it may be they are protesting just a bit too much.

The Hobby Lobby decision could end up motivating women voters to turn out to vote against Republicans in the fall.

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.

A lot of Republicans dislike the President enough to think that he should be removed from office, but will that make impeachment more likely to happen?

Rather than being a bad thing, negative campaigning is an essential part of our political system.

Just in time for the midterms, Todd Akin is back to remind voters of the GOP’s problems with female voters.

Thad Cochran has been officially certified as the winner of the Mississippi GOP Primary Runoff Election, but it’s not over yet.

Republican overreach could end up helping the President and his party.

The votes have been counted, the result is clear, but the battle between Senator Thad Cochran and Chris McDaniel continues to get stranger by the day.

Mitch McConnell is making promises to pro-life groups that the GOP probably won’t keep, but it’s still a politically risky move.

Mississippi goes from bizarre to, well, even more bizarre.

It turns out there was much less to that Scott Walker document dump than the press coverage claimed.

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

Parties do not own voters, and the job of campaigns is to attract voters.

Chris McDaniel and his Tea Party supporters are being very sore losers.

The people with the biggest voices in the GOP seem to be leading it to positions that most Americans disagree with.

Incumbency is a powerful advantage.