Outside the Beltway

The Magnolia State is the last in the nation to have the stars and bars on its state banner.

Thad Cochran, who represented Mississippi in Congress for 45 years, has died at the age of 81.

Republican Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith has made several mistakes since Election Day, but she’s likely to win tomorrow’s runoff election.

A Senate race in Mississippi could end up being the deciding factor in the battle for control of the Senate.

For a number of reasons, we may not know the outcome of the midterm elections on Election Night.

With Martha McSally pulling off a decisive win, Arizona Republicans managed to avoid the disaster that likely would have occurred had either Kelli Ward or Joe Arpaio won last night.

Mississippi’s Governor has chosen a replacement for Thad Cochran, but the White House isn’t too happy about the pick.

The 80-year-old Mississippi Republican, who was first elected to the Senate in 1978 after serving six years in the House, has been in poor health.

Roy Moore’s victory in Alabama is raising fears of a wider battle in the Republican Party heading into 2018.

A new poll shows that the Tea Party movement is more unpopular than it has ever been before, even among Republicans and conservatives.

Voter Turnout was lower this year than in any midterm since the one held eleven months after the attack on Pearl Harbor.

The most bizarre race of 2014 is finally over.

The death of the Tea Party is greatly exaggerated.

Chris McDaniel’s meritless, quixotic challenge to the Mississippi GOP Senate Primary is reaching it’s expected conclusion.

The numbers are shocking!

A big setback for Mississippi’s erstwhile Tea Party candidate for Senate.

There is simply no evidence of the kind of in-person voter impersonation that Voter ID Laws were designed to prevent.

No, it’s not over yet.

The Tea Party v. “establishment” battle in the GOP has been pretty one-sided this year.

Six weeks have passed since the primary, and Chris McDaniel has revealed he really doesn’t have much to complain about other than the fact that he lost.

Thad Cochran has been officially certified as the winner of the Mississippi GOP Primary Runoff Election, but it’s not over yet.

The votes have been counted, the result is clear, but the battle between Senator Thad Cochran and Chris McDaniel continues to get stranger by the day.

Mississippi goes from bizarre to, well, even more bizarre.

Chris McDaniel and his Tea Party supporters are being very sore losers.

Incumbency is a powerful advantage.

After appearing to be at the end of his political career, Thad Cochran has pulled off a surprising victory over his Tea Party backed challenger.

Down to the wire in Mississippi.

From the beginning, the Tea Party has shown itself to be just plain bad at picking candidates. This year, they finally seem to be on the verge of paying for it in the GOP primaries

It’s a bit too early for Republicans to be celebrating that Senate majority that so many people are predicting.

A budget deal has been reached, now it has to get through both Chambers of Congress.

Several conservative groups have jumped on the bandwagon of what appears to be a controversial Mississippi politician.

The shutdown debacle seems destined to lead to a battle between the Tea Party and the more business oriented elements of the GOP