Outside the Beltway

Nobody even agrees on what baselines to use.

Is there a new frontrunner?

The Vermont Senator is a better politician than most give him credit for.

We’re right back where we started.

Proposed mid-stream changes could help Bloomberg, hurt Sanders, and divide the party.

The leading papers in Iowa and New Hampshire are backing Klobuchar and Warren, respectively.

A legendary newsman has passed.

Two progressives enter. One progressive leaves.

The 2016 frontrunners at this stage won their nominations easily. But that’s often not the case.

Next week’s Democratic debate could have as few as five candidates.

Andrew Yang had an impressive fourth quarter when it comes to fundraising, but it appears unlikely to help his campaign at all.

Another one bites the dust.

Tulsi Gabbard is under fire back home for her vote on impeachment and for missing votes on the House floor.

Thursday night’s Democratic debate drew the lowest numbers of any of this season’s debates.

A much smaller debate stage led to a much better debate last night.

It’s time for the last Democratic debate of 2019, and the stage will be smaller than it has at any time in the past.

Despite denials and dismissals, it is clear that being an impeached President is getting under Trump’s skin.

With the House of Representatives just days away from impeaching President Trump, polling shows that public opinion on the issue has not changed much since October.

Cory Booker’s campaign is starting to show some of the same signs of collapse that Kamala Harris’s did.

President Trump is reportedly considering boycotting the General Election debates next fall.

New polling shows that the American public does not support the President and his trade war.

After a hearing that largely recapped the past month of hearings on Capitol Hill, the House Judiciary Committee is set to unveil Articles of Impeachment today.

Former Congressman Joe Sestak (Who?) is ending his bid for the Democratic Presidential nomination.

Even as candidates like Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders continue to base their campaigns on it, Democrats appear to be growing skeptical of ‘Medicare For All.’

Under the Democratic National Committee’s current qualification rules, Michael Bloomberg’s self-funded campaign means he wouldn’t qualify for any future debate. He doesn’t seem worried about that.

Andrew Yang is upset about the fact that he’s largely being ignored at the Democratic debates. He’s right, but that’s at least partly his fault.

He raises a very real problem.

Wednesday night’s debate drew the smallest television audience of any of the debates so far.

The fifth Democratic debate brought some candidate clashes, but hardly the no-holds-barred type of event you might expect for this late in the pre-primary process.

History shows us that candidates who enter the race for President late rarely do well, and rarely manage to win.

The newest entrant is outperforming most rivals but is intensely disliked.

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

Kamala Harris’s Presidential race continues to his bumpy roads.

Beto O;Rourke finally faces reality.

George Washington invented the concept and was quite clear that it did not apply to impeachment proceedings.

The stage for the sixth Democratic debate in December is likely to be much smaller.

We won’t have whats-his-name to kick around anymore.

The first round of polls after last week’s debate has good news for the former Vice-President.

The fourth Democratic debate saw a viewership dip from September, but there are likely some good reasons for that.

Elizabeth Warren took most of the fire during last night’s fourth Democratic debate, which will likely go a long way toward winnowing down a crowded field.

With twelve Democrats set to clash tonight in Ohio, it’s time to take a look at the state of the race.

The Commission on Presidential Debates has released the schedule and criteria for the General Election debates. As usual, the criteria are heavily biased in favor of the major party candidates.

Tulsi Gabbard, who managed to qualify for tomorrow’s fourth Democratic debate after missing out on the third, is threatening to boycott what may be her last chance to make her case to a national audience.

Just days after President Trump agreed to remove American forces from the scene, Turkish forces are entering northern Syria and Kurdish forces say they ar ready for war.

After a heart attack that has kept him out of the campaign for a week, it may be time for Bernie Sanders to pack it in.

Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar is behind in the polls but still able to stay alive financially.

The next Democratic Debate will have the most people on stage at one time of any debate so far.

It looks like we’ll have Cory Booker to kick around for a little while longer.

The criteria for the November and December debate will make it much harder for some Democrats to get on the national stage. That isn’t a bad thing.

The time for coddling the candidates polling below 5% is over.