Outside the Beltway

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.

Early voting is favoring Democrats in a wide variety of swing states.

Her numbers are steady; he’s reclaiming Republican voters.

The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case involving Federal law and the rights of transgender students.

A late Friday news dump by the Director of the F.B.I. has thrown a confusing curve ball into the race.

Two Republican Senators are exchanging barbs over the idea that the GOP should block any attempt by Hillary Clinton to nominate anyone to the Supreme Court if she becomes President.

Initial reports for the third quarter show strong economic growth during the summer;

According to reports, Vice-President Biden is on a Clinton campaign short list for Secretary of State.

Get ready for more hearings if Hillary Clinton becomes President.

Clinton is getting no special treatment by the standards of her high-powered peers.

The personal, the political, and the Foundation are so intertwined as to be one enterprise.

Republican candidates for the Senate and House are campaigning on the argument that they will be a bulwark against a Clinton Presidency.

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

What was supposed to be a night away from the campaign trail quickly turned partisan.

The final debate of 2016 didn’t draw as many viewers as the first Hillary v. Donald match-up, but it still drew a respectable number.

Last night’s debate, sadly, lived down to my expectations.

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

With the lone exception of Bill Clinton in 1996, Arizona hasn’t gone for a Democrat since 1948. That streak could end this year.

John McCain said that Senate Republicans will unite to block any Supreme Court appointment by a President Hillary Clinton.

With twenty-one days to go until Election Day, things are looking very good for Hillary Clinton.

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Donald Trump is facing potential trouble in a state that has gone for a Democrat only twice since the end of World War II.

Viewership for the second debate fell some twenty percent from the first debate, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that voter are losing interest.

Paul Ryan is abandoning the Trump campaign.

Last night’s debate was indeed the low point everyone anticipated it would be, but it seems unlikely to change the status quo.

As we head into the second Presidential debate, Hillary Clinton looks to be in very good shape.

Some early musings on a political fantasy that’s less implausible than it was 12 hours ago.

Republicans are abandoning Donald Trump in droves after last night’s revelation of lewd remarks he made in 2005.

An 11-year-old tape of the Republican nominee making misogynistic comments should surprise no one.

Damon Linker writes, “Millions of people disagree with your political views. That doesn’t make them moral monsters.”

The September Jobs Report continues to show an economy that is growing to some degree, but hardly growing as fast as it should be.

Tuesday night’s running mate debate had lower viewership than any such encounter in sixteen years.

Donald Trump is doing worse with white voters than Mitt Romney did in 2012.

It’s possible that Mike Pence won and Donald Trump still lost. It won’t matter.

Nothing that happens tonight during the Vice-Presidential debate is likely to matter, so feel free to skip it.

With five weeks to go, the momentum in the race is moving decidedly in Hillary Clinton’s favor.

The Supreme Court begins another term faced with the prospect of having to spend much of their time dealing with the fact that they’re short a member.

Judging 2016 by historical standards hasn’t worked out well thus far.

It wasn’t exactly Lincoln-Douglas but, in the end, Hillary Clinton clearly outperformed Donald Trump last night.

Trump had a much lower bar than Clinton going in. Neither cleared it.

Democratic hopes of retaking the Senate aren’t going so well at the moment.

With just hours before the first debate, and six weeks until Election Day, the race for President remains tight.

In which Ted Cruz endorses the guy who called his wife ugly and said his father was involved in the Kennedy assassination.