Outside the Beltway

For now at least, it looks as though last week’s email news is having little impact on the state of the race for President.

Two Republican Senators are exchanging barbs over the idea that the GOP should block any attempt by Hillary Clinton to nominate anyone to the Supreme Court if she becomes President.

According to reports, Vice-President Biden is on a Clinton campaign short list for Secretary of State.

Get ready for more hearings if Hillary Clinton becomes President.

What was supposed to be a night away from the campaign trail quickly turned partisan.

The final debate of 2016 didn’t draw as many viewers as the first Hillary v. Donald match-up, but it still drew a respectable number.

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.

It wasn’t exactly Lincoln-Douglas but, in the end, Hillary Clinton clearly outperformed Donald Trump last night.

Democratic hopes of retaking the Senate aren’t going so well at the moment.

With just hours before the first debate, and six weeks until Election Day, the race for President remains tight.

Donald Trump’s campaign is apparently finally acknowledging reality, although its claim that birtherism originated with the Clinton campaign in 2008 does not comport with the facts.

The sense of national ‘unity’ that existed in the wake of the September 11th attacks didn’t last for very long.

Donald Trump’s admiration and praise for the dictatorial leader of Russia should be sufficient reason to disqualify him from being President of the United States.

Comments from one Republican Senator are raising the possibility we could see hearings and a vote on Merrick Garland during the post-election lame duck session of Congress.

As expected, Marco Rubio easily won the primary for his Senate seat. The General Election battle, though, promises to be more difficult.

With ten weeks to go ,there’s been some tightening in the polls but Hillary Clinton continues to maintain a commanding lead in the race for the White House.

Much like their predecessors, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump have released only limited information about their health. It may be time for that to change.

President Obama is being criticized for remaining on vacation while Louisiana deals with historic flooding.

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

Another poll confirms that Virginia is firmly in the pocket of Hillary Clinton.

Donald Trump’s path to 270 Electoral Votes is becoming less likely by the day.

President Obama’s ISIS policy has been far from perfect, but to call him a “Founder” of ISIS is to ignore both history and reality.

Donald Trump’s support among African-Americans is at historic lows, and seems unlikely to recover.

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

It’s been a bad week for Donald Trump, something he can ill-afford with less than 100 days left until Election Day.

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 second night of the Democratic Convention seemed much calmer than the first, as the Clinton campaign moves forward toward the biggest speech of Hillary Clinton’s life.

Democrats will consider changing superdelegate rules, but not as much as Bernie Sanders would like.

As expected, Hillary Clinton went with the ‘safe’ choice, and has selected Virginia Senator Tim Kaine as her running mate.

Donald Trump completed his unlikely journey to the Republican Presidential Nomination last night, but he the party he now leads remains divided.

A look at the state of the race before the two party conventions begin.

If reports are correct, Indiana Governor Mike Pence will be Donald Trump’s choice for a running mate.

President Obama will leave office as the first two term President who presided over eight years of war. It didn’t start with him and it won’t end with him.

Early panic over the Brexit referendum was an overreaction. It’s time for statesmanship.

American forces will continue to stay in Afghanistan well after Barack Obama leaves office thanks to a new policy announced today.

Hillary Clinton holds solid leads over Donald Trump in seven battleground states.

Republican officials are running away from Donald Trump the way they’d run away from a horde of mosquitoes infected with the Zika virus.

Many pundits are arguing that the victory for ‘Leave’ presages good news for Trump in November, but there’s no reason to believe that.

Thanks to a 4-4 tie, President Obama’s temporary immigration relief program remains blocked by a Federal Court Injunction.

Donald Trump has a steep hill to climb to reverse a quarter century trend.

The head of the Federal Reserve tells Congress that the economy is unlikely to enter recession this years, but isn’t exactly going to be booming either.

A purported ‘short list’ of potential running mates for Hillary Clinton is out. Here’s how the candidates stack up.

Republican leaders and politicians continue to distance themselves from their party’s presumptive nominee.