Outside the Beltway

Even taking the fact that he is the Republican frontrunner into account, Donald Trump is getting a disproportionate amount of attention from the political media.

The 2016 election will be fought on a very small battlefield, and right now the makeup of that battlefield heavily favors the Democrats.

If we are gong to assess the significance of Trump, we need to pay attention to the numbers.

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

Donald Trump’s campaign seems to be making a play for whatever portion of the GOP it may be that still likes Sarah Palin.

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

This is not a serious Presidential campaign, it is a bloviating sideshow.

Matthew Dickinson takes a stab at explaining “Why So Many Republicans Are Running in 2016.”

Brian Williams will apparently stay at NBC News notwithstanding last year’s scandal, but he won’t be anchoring the network’s marquee newscast.

The head of the Spokane NAACP has apparently been lying about her racial background, and that’s led to a whole other argument.

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

Hillary Clinton hasn’t taken questions from reporters in three weeks. Because she doesn’t need the media as much as most other candidates.

Some people in the media can’t seem to get it through their heads that speech they consider hateful is entitled to as much protection as speech that they support.

Great Britain heads to the polls in less than a week, and it remains unclear just what’s going to happen.

Even for political junkies, the thrill seems to be gone.

It’s time for another White House Correspondent’s Dinner, and it’s going to be just as atrocious as the last one. But, the dinner isn’t the real problem.

Hillary Clinton’s political and personal baggage is likely to be a bigger problem for her than whomever her Republican opponent ends up being.

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

Some observations about Stewart’s interview (and some digression from me–okay, a lot of digression by me).

Florida Senator Marco Rubio is getting ready to jump into the race for President, but he has an uphill fight ahead of him.

Two potential candidates for the Republican nomination in 2016 traded barbs this week over the President’s new policy toward Cuba.

When push comes to shove, top Republicans may still try to make Mitt Romney happen.

Much like the disease itself, Ebola panic seems to have disappeared as the midterm elections become ever more distant in the rear view mirror.

The results of the 2014 midterms should teach us some lessons about how to handle and evaluate polling.

We are obviously moving toward an era of streaming and other services that don’t rely on Cable/Satellite providers, but it will still take some time to get there and for it to be cost effective.

CNN’s effort to bring back a show that had outlived its prime years ago has, predictably, failed.

We’ve become aware of failures in how we’ve handled the Ebola situation. The response is to figure out what went wrong and do our best to fix it, not to panic.

MSNBC’s attempt to be the liberal Fox News isn’t working.

It has nothing to do with winning, but it does have a lot to do with the foreign policy debate inside the Republican Party.

For the first time, someone has been diagnosed with Ebola in the United States.

A new poll indicates that NFL fans plan to keep watching despite the recent domestic abuse scandals.

The fact that a candidate like Mike Huckabee could win the Iowa Caucuses is the reason to end the Iowa Caucuses.

There is a good possibility that Darren Wilson could be acquitted in the shooting of Michael Brown.. Are the protesters ready to accept that reality?

Even with the passage of time, Watergate remains a singularly important event in American history

If Hillary Clinton is going to have a serious challenge in 2016, the person who will do that has yet to emerge.

Big news, and potentially a big merger, in the entertainment industry.

The news media of 1914 didn’t see World War One coming, but it’s not clear that we’re any better.

When it comes to Iraq, the media only seems to be giving Americans one side of the story.

Congressional elections have become “nationalized” to a far greater extent than they have ever been.

A new job for the Congressman recently filed by his own constituents?

When everything’s an outrage, is anything outrageous?