Outside the Beltway

Mike Bloomberg is apparently entering the race for the Democratic nomination.

Virginia voters don’t like Donald Trump, or Republicans in general, very much right now, and that could translate into Democrats taking control of the state legislature for the first time in nearly 30 years.

It’s mostly a quiet Election Day around the country, but there are some races for Governor worth watching.

Two weeks after the most recent debate, Joe Biden and Elizabeth Warren are pulling ahead in the polls.

With Pete Buttigieg rising in the polls, but underperforming among African-Americans, some are wondering if his sexual orientation is holding him back.

Pete Buttigieg’s momendum in the polls has slowed, but his fundraising ability has not.

For the most part, the third debate appears to have had little immediate impact on the race for the Democratic nomination.

In a rather obvious rebuke aimed at President Trump, Mitt Romney said this week that he will not endorse anyone for President in 2020.

This morning it was a question, this afternoon is a done deal in three states.

Four state GOPs appear poised to cancel their primaries/caucuses.

Beto O’Rourke is once again rejecting the idea of running for Senate instead of President.

The top four Democratic candidates are grouped closely together in the most recent polls out of delegate-rich California.

Donald Trump returned to the campaign trail last night with another one of his red meat speeches. The analogies it causes one to draw are chilling to say the least.

Bernie Sanders won the New Hampshire Primary by a huge margin in 2016. This time, he’s slipping in the polls as other candidates rise ahead of him.

Elizabeth Warren and Kamala Harris are up, and Bernie Sanders is down, in the first state-level poll since the debates.

A leading same-sex marriage advocate is pushing back on the trans movement.

Boris Johnson seems to be the leader in the race to replace Theresa May as Conservative Party leader. Whether that’s a good thing is another question.

Two weeks into his campaign, Joe Biden continues to build an impressive lead in polling at the state and national levels.

The consolidation of Super Tuesday makes the current system even more broken than before.

New polling indicates that a solid majority of Democrats are more interested in finding a candidate who can beat Donald Trump in 2020 than they are with finding a candidate that agrees with them on specific issues.

A WaPo data analyst gives it a shot.

As expected. California Senator Kamala Harris has entered the race for President.

California is set up throw a huge curve ball into the 2020 Presidential nomination fight.

In the end, the race between Cindy Hyde-Smith and Mike Espy was not even close.

With the recounts over we can officially say that Rick Scott will be the next Senator from Florida.

Losing the midterms is not going over well with the President.

Florida has begun the recount process in both the Senate and Governor’s races. Where it goes from here is anyone’s guess.

The emergence of a silly talking point.

With the 2020 Campaign set to begin as soon as the 2018 campaign ends, Democrats find themselves facing an age issue.

With less than forty-eight hours to go until voters head to the polls, the odds are pointing to a Democratic House and a Republican Senate.

A new poll shows a decided turn toward the Democratic candidates for Governor and Senator in Florida, but it may be an outlier.

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

Saturday Night Live inevitably mocked the Ford/Kavanaugh hearing on Thursday in their cold open.

Thinking about the political calculus.

Voter turnout in primary elections in 2018 was significantly above normal levels. especially in Democratic races.

As expected, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo easily fended off a challenge from actress Cynthia Nixon. Let the Presidential speculation begin.

Just hours before Senator McCain died, one of the candidates running for Jeff Flake’s Senate seat claimed that the McCain family released a statement about the late Senator’s health to hurt her campaign.

Care to guess the demographic makeup of the county?

Mid-terms are coming.

Democrats are on the verge of reducing the power of superdelegates to the point where they will essentially become meaningless in the nomination process.

The President continues to enjoy enthusiastic support from the over-65 set.

Has the party paid too big a price to attract suburban voters?

It isn’t a primary and it is an illustration of how electoral rules affect behavior.

Quietly, Mike Pence is seeking to create his own power base inside the GOP even as the White House pushes back.

The Commission on College Basketball recommended an end to the one-and-done rule and other major reforms.

Individual races are idiosyncratic. But there are nonetheless some lessons here.

A newly released poll has encouraging signs for Democrats in 2018, but there are several caveats.

Explaining what Tuesday is likely to bring.

Republicans have a Donald Trump problem, and they can’t run away from it.

Democrats, Republicans, and Independents came out for an an election that can only been seen as a strong rebuke to President Trump and the Republican Party.