Outside the Beltway

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

Looking at the Electoral College, it’s already apparent that Donald Trump’s campaign faces a daunting, perhaps impossible, path to victory.

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

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.

Donald Trump suggests Russia engage in espionage to help his Presidential campaign.0

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.

Florida Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman-Schultz is out as head of the Democratic National Committee after the release of a trove of embarrassing emails.

The worst convention in history has given Trump a yuuge bounce.

As expected, Hillary Clinton went with the ‘safe’ choice, and has selected Virginia Senator Tim Kaine as her running mate.

While a Clinton landslide seems obvious after the dumpster fire of a Republican convention, the race is close.

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

A big setback for one of the most restrictive Voter ID Laws in the country.

If Donald Trump actually became President, would he really do the work, or just delegate it to others? An anecdote from the campaign trail makes one wonder.

The 2016 Republican Convention is barely halfway over, but some Republicans are already looking ahead to 2020.

Donald Trump completed his unlikely journey to the Republican Presidential Nomination last night, but he the party he now leads remains divided.

As the allegations of sexual harassment grow, reports are also growing that Roger Ailes may be out at Fox News much sooner than many may have anticipated.

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.

A look at the state of the race before the two party conventions begin.

The least likely choice ascends to the Number Two position on the Republican ticket.

Predictably, the latest effort to prevent Donald Trump from gaining the Republican nomination has ended in failure.

Justice Ginsburg walks back her comments about the presumptive Republican nominee.

If reports are correct, Indiana Governor Mike Pence will be Donald Trump’s choice for a running mate.

Justice Ginsburg made some recent comments about the election that have, to say the least, raised some eyebrows.

Well that took long enough.

Hillary Clinton’s extreme carelessness with classified information probably won’t cost her the election, but it should.

As President Obama starts campaigning for Hillary Clinton, a perennial question arises.

Despite a year of utter failure, one group of Republicans apparently still thinks they can deny Donald Trump the Republican nomination.

Truth? Donald Trump can’t handle the truth.

The Veepstakes continues.

Comments on a pro-Trump (well, sorta) column.

Is Indiana’s Governor a contender to be Donald Trump’s running mate?

Vice-President Gingrich? Really?

If anything, the Trump campaign is going to provide some interesting data for future political scientists who study campaigns.

President Obama signed a law vastly expanding public access to government records yesterday. In other news . . . .

Chris Christie remains at the top of the list of potential Trump running mates.

Hillary Clinton holds solid leads over Donald Trump in seven battleground states.

Depending on the outcome of the election, the Supreme Court’s just concluded term will most likely be remembered as the point at which the Court’s rightward tilt that began at the end of the Warren Court Era came to an end.

One result from the new NBC News poll shows us how important it is to pay attention to how poll questions are phrased.

Republican officials are running away from Donald Trump the way they’d run away from a horde of mosquitoes infected with the Zika virus.