Outside the Beltway

It’s eleven weeks — just 77 days — until Election Day, and things are looking pretty good for Hillary Clinton, and pretty bad for Donald Trump.

Allegations of influence peddling by Clinton Foundation donors are being rehashed thanks to the release of a new batch of emails.

It just keeps getting worse.

More Republican officeholders are distancing themselves from Donald Trump, but it’s time to start wondering what took them so long,

It’s been a bad week for Donald Trump, something he can ill-afford with less than 100 days left until Election Day.

Post-convention polling at the state level holds some bad news for the Trump campaign.

Donald Trump continues to be Donald Trump. Which is quickly turning into a political disaster.

Hillary Clinton appears to be doing very well in the wake of the first round of post-convention polls.

Of course Donald Trump responded to a Gold Star Father in the worst possible way.

Big losses for proponents of Voter ID laws in two swing states.

The one with the better convention seems to have lost ground over the last two weeks.

More than any politician that spoke last night, it was the father of a fallen solider who stole the night.

Hillary Clinton delvers a largely successful acceptance speech that caps off a convention that ran far smoother than its Republican counterpart.

Eight years after beating her for the Democratic Nomination, Barack Obama passed the torch to Hillary Clinton with a speech that sounded more like Ronald Reagan than anything we’ve heard from the Republican nominee.

The second night of the Democratic Convention seemed much calmer than the first, as the Clinton campaign moves forward toward the biggest speech of Hillary Clinton’s life.

Ignore the focus on discord, most of Bernie’s supporters are supporting Hillary.

Donald Trump started out his campaign by telling us that the American dream is dead, and he returned to those dark and pessimistic themes in his acceptance speech last night.00

Speeches by the wife and kids are supposed to be the easy part of a convention. If you mess that up, you truly are an amateur.

I haven’t yet watched any of the 2016 Republican National Convention but the first day was a beauty.

Well that took long enough.

Bernie Sanders admitted, finally, that he likely won’t be the nominee.

Bernie Sanders doesn’t seem to realize that the political world has already moved past the race for the Democratic nomination.

Hillary Clinton easily won the final contest of the 2016 primary season, and the Clinton-Sanders reconciliation dance began.

Senator Elizabeth Warren is the latest Democrat to unite behind the party’s presumptive nominee. A marked contrast to the chaos that reigns on the Republican side of the aisle.

With the race for the Democratic nomination over, President Obama is ready to hit the campaign trail for Hillary Clinton.

Continuing the fight at this point is not just Quixotic, it’s unsporting.

One media critic is arguing that news organizations should ignore the fact that Hillary Clinton will become the Presumptive Democratic Nominee tomorrow. This is utterly ridiculous.

Bernie Sanders is continuing to let his supporters believe he has a chance to win the Democratic nomination. He is either delusional, or he is lying to his supporters.

Hillary Clinton is hoping to avoid an embarrassing loss in California to Bernie Sanders, and she just got some help from an unlikely source.

Even as it becomes more and more apparent that he cannot win the Democratic nomination for President, Bernie Sanders is not letting up on his rhetoric against the leadership of the party he claims he’ll support in November.

Bernie Sanders won the Indiana Primary last night, but Hillary Clinton continues to accrue the delegates she needs to become the Democratic nominee.

Another big night for Hillary Clinton, and more bad news for Bernie Sanders.

Hillary Clinton scored another big win in New York last night, putting her closer to clinching the Democratic nomination, and causing Bernie Sanders’ campaign to make even less sense.

Just days before a high stakes primary in New York, Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders clashed over familiar themes in their latest debate.

There are many aspects of the way delegates to the party convention are chosen that is “undemocratic,” but it’s unclear why this is a problem.

Bernie Sanders pulled off another win, but it puts him no closer to having a realistic chance of winning the nomination.

With the Democratic race headed into territory where Hillary Clinton is heavily favored, Bernie Sanders may finally be coming to realize that he can’t possibly win the Democratic nomination.

If you were looking for evidence that the race for the Democratic nomination is basically over, you need look no further than last night’s Democratic Debate.

So close, and yet so very, very, far.

Good for her.

Beau Biden, the former attorney general of Delaware and son of Vice President Joe Biden, has died of brain cancer at the age of 46.

A man best known, perhaps, for what he didn’t do, has passed away

Columbus, Philadelphia, or New York City (well, Brooklyn really)?

Todd Akin continues to give Republicans headaches.

Just in time for the midterms, Todd Akin is back to remind voters of the GOP’s problems with female voters.

One of the most repeated comments about the 2016 race is based on something that just isn’t true.