Outside the Beltway

With the lone exception of Bill Clinton in 1996, Arizona hasn’t gone for a Democrat since 1948. That streak could end this year.

Last night’s debate was indeed the low point everyone anticipated it would be, but it seems unlikely to change the status quo.

Trump was alternately somnambulant, petulant, stalking, incoherent, and dangerous.

As we head into the second Presidential debate, Hillary Clinton looks to be in very good shape.

Republicans are abandoning Donald Trump in droves after last night’s revelation of lewd remarks he made in 2005.

An 11-year-old tape of the Republican nominee making misogynistic comments should surprise no one.

Donald Trump appears to be pushing voters from America’s fastest growing minority group into the Democratic camp.

One of the last survivors of Israel’s founding generation has passed away.

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

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

According to one report, the GOP’s longest living former President plans to vote for a Democrat this fall.

Gary Johnson is doing better than any third-party candidate in twenty years, but that doesn’t mean he’s likely to get an invitation to the upcoming Presidential debates.

North Korea continues to advance its nuclear program but it’s unclear what anyone can do about it.

House Republicans are vowing to continue their investigations even if Hillary Clinton wins the White House.

An amplification on the question of likability.

John McCain is bidding for a sixth term in office, with a challenge from the right in tomorrow’s primary and Donald Trump at the top of the ticket in November.

A majority of her non-government visitors coincidentally donated to her nonprofit.

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

Don’t be fooled into thinking that the election is “over,” because it isn’t.

A precursor to modern cable political news with an interesting past has passed away at the age of 89.

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

Not surprisingly, Latino voters are heavily turned off by Donald Trump and seemingly quite eager to vote against him in the fall.

A new poll shows Donald Trump barely winning in a state that should be solidly red.

Allegations of influence peddling by Clinton Foundation donors are being rehashed thanks to the release of a new batch of emails.

New polling from the states has good news for Hillary Clinton, and an even less plausible path to 270 for Donald Trump.

In a sign of just how bad the trends are right now for Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton is gaining ground in states that Mitt Romney won four years ago.

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

Hillary Clinton delvers a largely successful acceptance speech that caps off a convention that ran far smoother than its Republican counterpart.

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.

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

Justice Ginsburg made some recent comments about the election that have, to say the least, raised some eyebrows.

The presumptive Democratic nominee for president won’t be going to jail. But we knew that.

A man who survived great horrors to become a tireless witness for truth and advocate for human rights has passed away.

In a sign that the ongoing F.B.I. investigation into her use of a private email server and handling of classified information is coming to an end, the former Secretary of State was interviewed by Federal Agents today.

Attorney General Loretta Lynch will essentially recuse herself from making a decision about indictments in the investigation of Hillary Clinton’s email server.

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

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

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

Hillary Clinton is hoping to avoid an embarrassing loss in California to Bernie Sanders, and she just got some help from an unlikely source.

A bad day for the Clinton campaign.

For Donald Trump at least, the start of the General Election campaign is the perfect time to dredge up decades old conspiracy theories.

Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders split victories in Kentucky and Oregon last night, and Clinton is now less than 100 delegates away from an historic victory.

Hillary Clinton will be the Democratic nominee regardless of what happens in Kentucky and Oregon today, but her campaign is hoping for a win in Kentucky that puts an end to the repetitive stories about Bernie Sanders continuing to win primaries.

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

If you think this campaign has been awful, you ain’t seen nothin’ yet.

If these numbers hold up, then the GOP may as well start planning for the 2020 primaries now.

The GOP race for President takes yet another bizarre turn.

There are many aspects of the way delegates to the party convention are chosen that is “undemocratic,” but it’s unclear why this is a problem.

Putting Donald Trump at the top of the ticket would likely lead to an Electoral College disaster for Republicans.