Outside the Beltway

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

While longtime supporters have turned on the legendary attorney over his support of Donald Trump, he’s been astonishingly consistent.

Eleven states plus DC, who have 172 of the 270 electoral votes needed to elect a President, are now part of the compact.

The campaign-agnostic political science models predicted a toss-up in 2016 and again in 2020.

The woman who lost the 2016 election is apparently not going to go away.

If you recall your grade school civics, you already knew this.

Critics warn this move would lead to a drastic undercount of Hispanic voters, impacting Congressional districting, federal programs, and more.

Despite what his own intelligence chiefs are saying, President Trump still does not believe that Russia interfered in the 2016 election.

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

And a little Electoral College for good measure.

Despite mounting evidence and outrageous behavior, Republicans nationwide and on Capitol Hill continue to do the Administration’s dirty work. They’ll most likely live to regret it.

Steve Bannon loses his position at Breitbart after his blistering comments about the President and others in the Administration became public.

Who needs a First Amendment when you have lawyers willing to write threatening letters?

President Trump has shut down the commission he established to investigate unsupported claims of “voter fraud” in the 2016 election.

Most Americans are unlikely to remember John Anderson, but he was a harbinger of things to come.

Even during an overseas trip, President Trump continues to try to undermine the Russia investigation.

Will Joe Biden be ‘tan, rested, and ready’ enough to take on 2020?

A complicated concurrence to Steven Taylor’s recent postings.

Some quick thoughts on Moore v. Strange.

The ‘No Labels’ movement is back, and it’s as irrelevant to contemporary politics as ever.

Some more interesting post-election commentary from Hillary Clinton.

Hillary Clinton’s latest memoir lashes out at those to blame for her unexpected loss.

A Federal Appeals Court has upheld the dismissal of a lawsuit filed by Gary Johnson and Jill Stein regarding their exclusion from Presidential debates.

Democrats and “Never Trump”ers shouldn’t count their chickens before they’re hatched.

Three new polls show Trump’s job approval down significantly in the three states that put him over the top in the Electoral College last year.

Donald Trump is unlikely to ever be a popular President, but that may not matter.

A Duke history professor uncovers “stealth plan” by “fifth columnists” who are seeking to overthrow democracy in the U.S. for their plutocrat masters.

Thoughts on the quality of our democracy.

More than twenty states are resisting requests for data from a ‘voter integrity’ Commission built on President Trump’s lie that millions of people voted illegally in the 2016 election.

Hillary Clinton is blaming everyone she can for her loss, except the most obvious suspects.

The Trump White House loses ts first major staffer, and more are likely to come.

Soon visitors to the White House will be able to see Donald Trump’s “yuge” election win on display for all to see.

How close to success is the National Popular Vote initiative? (Spoiler alert: not close).

As usual, an attempt to explain congressional behavior brings us back to the issue of our basic institutions. The way we elect congress matters.

Emmanuel Macron holds a decisive lead over Marine Le Pen as the French Presidential election heads into its final hours.

Donald Trump discovers reality.

Six months after the election, the postmortems of the Clinton campaign all seem to have one thing in common, they all point at things other than the candidate and her campaign as being the reason she lost.

French voters face a stark choice in the May 7th runoff for President. Hopefully, they’ll make the correct choice.

It may well be that the 25th Amendment, not the impeachment clause, will be his undoing.

For seventy-seven minutes yesterday, President Trump held forth in a press conference that confirmed the most dire predictions about what he’d be like as President.

It is Trump’s party now. Impeachment is not coming.

Despite the lack of evidence, Donald Trump continues to claim that there were ‘millions’ of illegal votes cast in 2016.

A movement motivated by hurt and fear turned into a political force eight years ago. Can another follow suit?

While vigilance is called for, America will survive Donald Trump just as it has survived everything else we’ve faced since the nation’s founding.

The Swing Low, Sweet Chariot Edition OTB Caption Contest^TM is now over.

The answer is pretty straight-forward.

Impeachment fantasies are the new EC fantasy.