Outside the Beltway

WikiLeaks has been dumped from Amazon’s servers.

During the just concluded election season, eleven self-funded candidates spent a total of $ 286 million trying to win elections. Only two of them actually won.

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner held a private, off-the-record meeting in comedian Jon Stewart’s office back in April. Speculation abounds.

We’ve been talking about the 2010 elections since, oh, the day after the 2008 elections.   Now, it’s time for final predictions.

Political columnist John Heilemann thinks he’s come up with a scenario that would put Sarah Palin in the White House, but his assumptions don’t add up.

It’s looking less and less likely that the GOP will gain control of the Senate, but they’re going to come awfully close,, and that might be just as good from their point of view.

Polls show the Republicans easily retaking the House but falling short in the Senate. But 2006 showed us that wave elections can produce shocking outcomes.

Politicians are, by definition, a bit abnormal. However, this year we seem to have more than our fair share of the truly odd.

More numbers for campaign 2010–in this case, ones that show the maintenance of the status quo in several states.

Christine O’Donnell’s victory in Delaware Tuesday has made it less likely that the GOP will be able to take control of the Senate, but they still have an excellent shot of making substantial gains that will transform Congress’s Upper House.

Is our Federal system a mere political compromise? Or were the Founding Fathers visionaries with a plan?

For most of the year, a GOP takeover in the Senate seemed beyond the realm of possibility. That’s no longer the case.

Another political analyst is out with a 2010 prediction that should make Democrats very nervous.

A case out of Texas demonstrates quite aptly the absurdity of the current patchwork quilt approach to same-sex marriage in the United States.

Americans who earn a lot of money disproportionately live in a tiny number of states and are married to other high-earners.

Bill Kristol and friends are trying to make it politically toxic to criticize Israel.

Another round of primaries last night made the playing field for November just a little bit clearer to see.

That attitudes towards gay marriage varies by state won’t surprise you. The degree to which it does just might.

Massachusetts will become the latest state to join the National Popular Vote movement, a compact wherein states throw their Electoral College votes to the nationwide winner once enough states agree to ensure that outcome.

The Washington DC area has the nation’s highest incomes.

Starting in November, we’ll get a look inside the mind of one of America’s most fascinating writers.

Once again, the knives are out for Michael Steele after his recent Afghanistan gaffe.

The Chairman of the RNC is expressing doubts about America’s war effort in Afghanistan.

Honest pollsters should deposit their raw data with the Roper Center to improve transparency.