Outside the Beltway

The peril of not yet running for President include not yet having a campaign staff in place.

A Washington Post columnists tries to make the case.

What would it mean for the companies’ workers, the stock market and the cost of care?

The consolidation of Super Tuesday makes the current system even more broken than before.

David Gergen lives in a fantasy world.

Some basics on the US party system.

Would a similarly-situated woman be getting such over-the-top coverage?

Free expression sometimes enables horrible crimes. How does a free society deal with that tension?

Beto O’Rourke hasn’t officially said that he’s running for President, but he’s certainly sending all the signals you’d expect from a Presidential candidate.

The former Vice President is seen as “just right” by likely Caucus goers.

Democratic candidates for President are quickly voicing support for marijuana legalization.

As it has since 2007, the Democratic National Committee is barring Fox News from hosting a debate featuring the party’s candidates for President.

For the fourth time since the 2008 election cycle, Michael Bloomberg flirted with the idea of running for President. For the fourth time, he declined to do so.

Does it depend on what the meaning of “running” is?

We won’t have Hillary Clinton to kick around anymore.

Former Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper is the latest entrant into an already crowded Democratic field.

In what was basically a throwaway line, Joe Biden said something nice about Mike Pence. The reaction from his fellow Democrats says a lot about our current political culture, and none of it is good.

Washington Governor Jay Inslee is running for the Democratic nomination for President on a platform primarily focused on climate change. Whether that helps distinguish him from a growing field of candidates remains to be seen.

Former Vice-President Joe Biden isn’t officially running for President yet, but says his family is on board if he does.

The Texas Congressman has decided to forgo another Senate bid and instead focus his energies elsewhere.

Literally no current candidate for President has a net favorable opinion rating.

Bernie is back and running for President, but he’s likely to face a tougher road this time around.

Gender bias is real. Most examples cited, though, aren’t.

Faced with a field that could be more crowded than the Republican field in 2016, Democrats have come up with a different solution to the rather obvious problem of debate scheduling.

Former Massachusetts Governor Bill Weld is preparing for a primary challenge against Donald Trump. He won’t win, but he could still have an impact.

It’s far too early, but Joe Biden’s advantages in these polls of Democratic voters can’t be ignored.

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

Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren is the latest entrant into an already crowded field for the Democratic nomination.

Elizabeth Warren still hasn’t figured out how to put the ‘Native American’ issue behind her.

New polling indicates that a solid majority of Democrats are more interested in finding a candidate who can beat Donald Trump in 2020 than they are with finding a candidate that agrees with them on specific issues.

…there is only one plausible pathway to get there.

National and Virginia Democratic officials are calling on Virginia Governor Ralph Northam to resign over racist photos in his 1984 medical school yearbook.

New Jersey Senator Cory Booker is the latest entrant into the race for the 2020 Democratic Nomination.

While much of the attention in the race for the Democratic nomination to date has been on the left, there is a path forward for a more centrist candidate.

Is benefitting politically from romantic liaisons different than other relationships?

A WaPo data analyst gives it a shot.

Bernie Sanders is likely to run for the Democratic nomination, but it won’t be like 2016.

Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders is preparing a second run at the White House, but this race won’t be anything like 2016.

As expected. California Senator Kamala Harris has entered the race for President.

New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand is the latest Democratic entrant into the 2020 race for President.

Former HUD Secretary Julian Castro is the latest addition to the growing Democratic Presidential field.

Hawaii Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard is the latest Democrat to throw their hat into the Presidential ring.

California Senator Kamala Harris is set to enter the race for the Democratic Presidential nomination later this month.

Former Vice-President Joe Biden will reportedly decide on whether or not he’ll be entering the race for President in the near future.

Bernie Sanders is facing questions about sexual harassment from women who worked on his 2016 campaign as he prepares a likely run for President in 2020.

Several states are getting rid of caucuses in favor of primaries, a move that could be to the disadvantage of candidates like Bernie Sanders.

Begun, the 2020 campaign has.

Faced with the prospect of a large field like the one Republicans had in 2016, Democrats are trying to figure out how to handle debates. So far, the ideas being put forward are as bad as what the GOP ended up doing.

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

Former Vice-President Biden and Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders are, not surprisingly, leading the early polls for the 2020 Democratic nomination.