Outside the Beltway

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

Two months after the shooting in Parkland, Florida, support for gun control measures seems to be slipping.

President Trump’s job approval numbers remain historically low.

Late last week, Hawaii became the seventh state and eighth major American jurisdiction to legalize assisted suicide.

If the polls are any indication, Democrats may fall short in their bid to take back the House in November.

New polling shows that public support for several gun control proposals continue to increase in the wake of February’s shooting at a Parkland, Florida High School.

Polls released since the Parkland, Florida shooting show that support for gun control measures is at its highest level since 1993, but will it last?

A majority of Americans say their lives are not “disrupted” by the time change. They’re wrong.

New polls show increased support for various gun control measures, including limitations on so-called “assault weapons,” but that doesn’t mean we’re likely to see Congressional action on the subject.

If Trump is able to insist upon a package deal or no deal at all, he may muck up his chance of policy success, but it may be the Democrats who lose politically.

Recent polls have caused Republicans to become more optimistic about their chances in this year’s midterms. That optimism is both premature and misplaced.

One year after his Inauguration, Donald Trump is the most unpopular new President since the invention of modern polling. However, his numbers are generally the same that they’ve been for some time now.

Thanks to Donald Trump, public opinion around the world about the United States is at its lowest level in ten years.

The Trump Administration is reversing policy on an Obama Era policy that allowed states to choose their own course on marijuana laws.

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

More bad polling news for President Trump.

A new poll shows that a record majority of Americans, including a majority of Republicans, support legalization of marijuana.

New polling shows increased support for gun control measures in the wake of Las Vegas, but it’s not likely to last and it won’t lead to any significant action by Congress.

Some interesting statistics.

President Trump’s job approval has improved slightly, but the numbers remain historically low for a newly elected President.

Hillary Clinton has found another group to blame for her loss, educated white married women in suburbia.

80% of GOP voters approve of Trump. This explains GOP behavior in large measure.

A key step in the Colombian peace process.

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

Republicans now face a stark choice.

After two days, President Trump finally found the words to condemn the parties responsible for the violence in Charlottesville, but his remarks were far too little, far too late.

Plus some comparisons of Trump/Obama and Trump/Bill Clinton.

Donald Trump’s first Cabinet Meeting looked like something out of a Maoist propaganda video.

The polls are looking worse and worse for Donald Trump.

Last week was one of the worst week’s the still-young Trump Administration has faced, and new tracking poll data is starting to reflect that.

Two years after the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling, nearly two-thirds of Americans support the idea of legal marriage rights for gay and lesbian Americans.

Trump’s job approval numbers continue to sink.

As he nears the end of his first 100 days in office, President Trump continues to suffer from bad poll numbers.

President Trump’s job approval woes are starting to impact the GOP as a whole.

Justin Trudeau’s Liberal Party is set to follow through on a campaign promise.

Just about two months into office, Donald Trump’s job approval number are worse than any newly elected President since World War II.

Donald Trump’s job approval numbers are the lowest for any new President since World War II. That doesn’t bode well for his Administration’s future.

Donald Trump’s initial job approval numbers are lower than any President since the EIsenhower Administration.

After just over a week in office, Donald Trump already has a negative job approval number. That’s a modern record.

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

The fight for marijuana legalization advances in California.

If polls are any indication, voters are set to legalize marijuana in five more states on Tuesday.

Some musings on the RCP average and such.

Once again, the debate commission controlled by the two major parties is excluding third-party candidates from the Presidential debates.

Don’t be fooled into thinking that the election is “over,” because it isn’t.

America’s largest voting bloc is heavily turned off by Donald Trump, and that is posing long-term problems for Republicans in general.

The death penalty appears to be effectively dead in Delaware thanks to a decision by the State Supreme Court.