Outside the Beltway

Florida has begun the recount process in both the Senate and Governor’s races. Where it goes from here is anyone’s guess.

With the 2020 Campaign set to begin as soon as the 2018 campaign ends, Democrats find themselves facing an age issue.

As the midterm campaign draws to a close, Donald Trump is returning to the message of xenophobia and fear that dominated his Presidential campaign.

Surely a celebrity hound with no political experience can’t become President. Right?

Washington said farewell to John McCain today in a service that both remembered his spirit and his heroism, and stands as a sharp rebuke to what politics has been reduced to in America today.

A group of lawsuits filed across the country are seeking to challenge the predominant method for allocation of Electoral College votes. These lawsuits appear to have little merit.

Has the party paid too big a price to attract suburban voters?

The woman who lost the 2016 election is apparently not going to go away.

Normally attorneys would be jumping at the chance to represent the President of the United States. With Donald Trump, the lawyers are distancing themselves from him as fast as they can.

After nearly twenty years, the Republican domination of the Virginia House of Delegates came to an end thanks to a single vote.

For some reason, Joe Lieberman is apparently the front-runner to replace James Comey at the F.B.I.

Just about two months into office, Donald Trump’s job approval number are worse than any newly elected President since World War II.

It may well be that the 25th Amendment, not the impeachment clause, will be his undoing.

President Obama thinks he would have beaten Donald Trump. And he’s probably right.

While hardly the most compelling argument against an archaic institution, yesterday’s silliness was noteworthy.

Notwithstanding the election results, support for eliminating the Electoral College is at a 20-year low.

An irrelevant candidate is triggering a recount in three states Trump won by substantial margins.

One professor is suggesting that Bernie Sanders played a role in 2016 similar to the one that Ralph Nader did in 2000. It doesn’t pass even cursory examination.

The candidate I voted for got more than 200,000 votes for president than the winner. I’m okay with that.

Janet Reno, who served as Attorney General for nearly all of the Bill Clinton Administration, has died at 78.

A look at the Electoral College shows that It is far more likely that Hillary Clinton will win the election than that Donald Trump will.

Has any major party nominee for president ever damaged his reputation in this manner?

For better or worse, the third Presidential debate will largely be remembered for one thing.

Damon Linker writes, “Millions of people disagree with your political views. That doesn’t make them moral monsters.”

With five weeks to go, the momentum in the race is moving decidedly in Hillary Clinton’s favor.

America’s largest voting bloc is heavily turned off by Donald Trump, and that is posing long-term problems for Republicans in general.

Another day, another round of irresponsible demagoguery from Donald Trump.

The first round of post-convention polls is now complete, and it’s not looking good for The Donald.

Hillary Clinton appears to be doing very well in the wake of the first round of post-convention polls.

Eight years after beating her for the Democratic Nomination, Barack Obama passed the torch to Hillary Clinton with a speech that sounded more like Ronald Reagan than anything we’ve heard from the Republican nominee.

The worst convention in history has given Trump a yuuge bounce.

It’s still early in the cycle, but Donald Trump’s poll numbers are already historically bad.

Hillary Clinton has a slight lead in national polling over Donald Trump as the battle for the White House really begins.

With the race for the Democratic nomination over, President Obama is ready to hit the campaign trail for Hillary Clinton.

Closer to making history.

The rise of Trump and Sanders has resurrected a debate as old as Western civilization.

One week before the South Carolina Primary, the remaining Republican candidates for President clashed in a headed debate.

Jim Webb’s recent criticism of Hillary Clinton is renewing speculation about an independent bid for the White House, but he hardly seems like a viable candidate for such a run.

A debate schedule that seems designed to limit the ability of viewers to see candidates, and other incidents, has led Hillary Clinton’s opponents to allege that the D.N.C. is favoring Hillary Clinton.

Ben Carson and his supporters would have you believe that he is being subjected to unprecedented and unfair scrutiny. That assertion is completely false.

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

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.

Republicans seem to be thinking that Hillary Clinton will be an easier General Election candidate than the evidence suggests she is likely to be.

Hillary Clinton has started to distance herself from President Obama on some issues. It’s an understandable strategy, but it carries many risks.

More than 23 million people watched the debate Wednesday night.

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

A Republican political consultant says Hillary Clinton is in danger of losing the nomination.

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