Outside the Beltway

For a variety of reasons, it’s unlikely that the Republican field will shrink significantly before the Iowa Caucuses.

It will never actually happen, of course, but some of Donald Trump’s fellow candidates for President have been eager to endorse his idea to abolish birthright citizenship.

Donald Trump is still in the lead of the Republican circus, but the rest of the field remains uncertain in the wake of the first debate.

A Clerk in Kentucky appears to be headed for a showdown with a Federal District Court Judge that she is destined to lose.

The low-polling candidates met in an early debate. It was about what you’d expect.

Donald Trump is center stage, John Kasich is in, and Rick Perry is relegated to the kid’s table.

The last three polls to be released before Thursday’s debate show Donald Trump continuing to solidify his lead.

Donald Trump leads in the first of the final polls to be released before Thursday’s debate.

The first of a series of polls in anticipation of next week’s debate shows Donald Trump still at the top, with a surprise coming out of Ohio.

With just over a week to go, Republican candidates for President are fighting for the movement in the polls that could get them in to the August 6th debate.

His remarks about John McCain’s military service don’t seem to be hurting Donald Trump with Republican true believers.

Despite his remarks about John McCain, Donald Trump is likely to be around for some time to come.

Donald Trump stuck his foot in his mouth again.

Donald Trump leads in a new national poll, but a deeper look at the numbers suggests that this Trump Bubble can’t last for very much longer.

Republicans are finally starting to react to what Donald Trump has been saying.

Donald Trump has gotten almost nothing but negative press since entering the race for President, but it doesn’t seem to be hurting him very much just yet.

The Supreme Court’s decision on marriage equality seems to have revived an idea that has been mentioned before, but as it has always been, the idea of “getting government out of marriage” is little more than a simplistic slogan.

In an ordinary year, Ohio Governor John Kasich seems like he’d be a perfect candidate for Republicans in an era when winning the Buckeye State is essential to winning the White House. But things are far from ordinary in the GOP.

There’s a lot of pandering and outright nonsense in the wake of the Supreme Court’s legalization of gay marriage.

The reaction of many of the GOP candidates to the decision in Obergefell v. Hodges is about what you’d expect, but there are a few interesting surprises.

Republicans aren’t going to like this one.

Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal enters the Presidential race today, but it’s hard to see how he even manages to become a plausible candidate.

As Governor Haley pushes the South Carolina legislature to take the Confederate Flag down, the movement moves beyond the Palmetto State.

Pope Francis’s new encyclical isn’t exactly being received positively by American conservatives, because they seem to be missing the point.

Once seen as a rising Republican star, Bobby Jindal’s impending Presidential bid now looks like it’s over before it begins.

Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker isn’t officially a candidate for President yet, but he’s doing quite well in Iowa anyway.

The race for the Republican nomination is as tight as ever, and so far nobody seems to be emerging as a clear front-runner.

Rand Paul is out with one of his more forceful attacks on Republican hawks to date.

What if they held a straw poll and nobody came?

Thwarted by the legislature, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal used his executive power to take action that seems directed more toward evangelicals in Iowa than anything happening in his home state.

With 14 candidates vying for the Republican nomination, TV execs are scrambling to make the debates watchable.

The Republican debate stage in 2016 is going to be even more crowded than it was in 2012.

Break out the sweater vests, Rick Santorum is getting ready to enter the race for the Republican Presidential Nomination.

Former Hewlett Packard CEO, and failed Senate candidate, Carly Fiorina will be running for President for some reason.

Five years after it became law, the Republican effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act appears to be over.

His poll numbers are down, the GOP base is not hospitable, but Chris Christie still seems to be thinking about running for President.

A new poll suggests that the American public does not support laws that give religious exemptions to businesses that want to discriminate based on sexual orientation.

Carly Fiorina seems to be inching close to a Presidential run for some reason.

Ted Cruz kicks off with the first of what is likely to be a string of candidates getting into the 2016 race in the coming month.

Despite the ongoing email controversy, Hillary Clinton remains well positioned heading into 2016.

Scott Walker surged to the top of a new poll of Iowa Republicans, but Iowa is not a very good predictor of success in the race for the GOP nomination.

The Tea Party may be the most vocal wing of the GOP but most Republicans seems to favor candidates that aren’t quite so right wing.

Combining politics, an incessantly sensationalist news cycle, and a virus that scares a lot of people can’t end well.

Emil Henry makes “The Case for Mitt Romney in 2016.”

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

Unlike David Vitter, he didn’t break the law.