Outside the Beltway

He’s tan. He’s rested. He’s ready.

Despite the evidence, the President thinks he did a great job handling a disaster in which nearly 3,000 American citizens died.

A group of lawsuits filed across the country are seeking to challenge the predominant method for allocation of Electoral College votes. These lawsuits appear to have little merit.

Former Republican Governor Tim Pawlenty failed in his comeback effort last night, confirming yet again that the GOP is now the Trump Party.

Notwithstanding his dismissive public rhetoric about the former Vice-President, Donald Trump apparently sees Joe Biden as his biggest potential threat in 2020.

At a minimum, Trump is betraying his oath of office. That is one hell of a minimum.

Republicans will hold their 2020 National Convention in the same city that hosted the Democrats back in 2012.

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

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

Mitt Romney stumbled in his bid to become Utah’s next Senator but he’s still likely to win the nomination anyway.

Yet more troubling news about the proposed citizenship question on the 2020 Census.

New York and nearly two dozen other jurisdictions have filed a lawsuit seeking to bar the Trump Administration from asking about citizenship in the 2020 Census.

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

California has pushed back quickly against the Trump Administration’s decision to include a question regarding citizenship in the 2020 Census.

And a little Electoral College for good measure.

Just three weeks after their home was hit by a devastating storm, Donald Trump is attacking Puerto Ricans for not recovering from the storm sooner.

Despite, or perhaps because of, his bigoted, radical, far-right positions on the issues, Roy Moore beat the sitting Senator from Alabama in a runoff election that essentially guarantees that he will win the General Election later this year.

A new poll shows that Donald Trump could end up having an impact on the race for Virginia Governor.

Ed Gillespie, the Republican nominee for Governor of Virginia, has come out against the most recent immigration-related action by the national leader of his party.

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.

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

The FBI Director faced a damned if you do, damned if you don’t choice.

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.

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

While hardly the most compelling argument against an archaic institution, yesterday’s silliness was noteworthy.

Beginning late this morning, the Electors in each of the states will meet to carry out their Constitutional function. Despite the drama accompanying this year’s election, there’s likely to be far less drama than some people seem to be hoping for.

Wherein a law professor makes the absurd argument that the Electoral College, which exists pursuant to the Constitution, is unconstitutional.

These are the possible outcomes (both probable and improbable).

Hillary Clinton’s national campaign wasn’t nearly as well-organized as we’d been led to believe.

Notwithstanding the election results, support for eliminating the Electoral College is at a 20-year low.

Just 1,436 days until Election Day 2020!

Donald Trump claims he won an Electoral College landslide. This is a bald-faced lie.

An irrelevant candidate is triggering a recount in three states Trump won by substantial margins.

No, the EC is not going to elect Clinton.

Some Hillary Clinton supporters have a foolish and unworkable “plan” to steal Trump’s victory in the Electoral College. They should abandon it.

Americans are rioting in the streets because they don’t like the outcome of a democratic election.

Defying the odds and the polls, Donald Trump triumphed over Hillary Clinton to become the 45th President of the United States.

What to watch for tonight.

With just one day to go, Clinton’s paths to victory continue to look far more realistic than Donald Trump’s.

Even if you’re not sure who you should vote for, it’s obvious who you shouldn’t vote for.

It has become necessary to destroy the party in order to save it.

Looking beyond FiveThirtyEight

A look at the Electoral College shows that It is far more likely that Hillary Clinton will win the election than that Donald Trump will.

Seven days from now, millions of Americans will be headed to the polls. So far at least, Hillary Clinton is still the front runner.

For now at least, it looks as though last week’s email news is having little impact on the state of the race for President.

Two weeks before Election Day, everything seems to be going Hillary Clinton’s way.

For better or worse, the third Presidential debate will largely be remembered for one thing.