Outside the Beltway

Recent poll numbers suggest that the President is vulnerable in the part of the country that assured his Electoral College victory in 2020, but Democrats are going to have to work hard to flip these states.

Despite poll numbers suggesting otherwise, one political analyst suggests that the United States may not be “ready” for a gay President.

A new poll finds that a small majority of Americans support abolishing the Electoral College, but that’s not nearly enough to make any change in how we elect Presidents possible.

There’s a lot of talk right now about “electability.” but what the heck does it mean?

Another post-announcement poll brings good news for the former Vice-President, but there’s a long way to go.

There’s some very good news for Joe Biden in the first polls taken after he entered the Presidential race.

A cautious analyst makes a strong claim.

A new poll shows that a majority of Americans say they won’t vote for President Trump in 2020. but that’s only half the battle for Democrats

The President has hit a dubious milestone barely two years into his administration.

Before he started his campaign for President, former Vice-President Biden reached out to Anita Hill to apologize for his conduct during the confirmation hearings for Clarence Thomas in 1991.

He’s tan. He’s rested. He’s ready. But is the Democratic Party going to buy what Joe Biden is selling?

Having lost to him, she’s an ineffective voice on the matter of Donald Trump.

Trump campaign officials are worried about the President’s chances of holding onto a state that was crucial to his win in 2020. They should be.

Larry Sabato lays out a quite plausible path.

Pete Buttigieg is in the top three in a recent poll of New Hampshire Democratic primary voters, but can it last?

Pete Buttigieg is getting a lot of attention for a relatively unknown candidate. but it’s unclear if it can last.

Donald Trump speaks largely just to his base, ignoring the nation as a whole. Whether this will be enough to win re-election in 2020 is an open question.

Roy Moore has not said that he’s running for Senate again in Alabama, but he’s already threatening to up-end the race for the GOP nomination.

So far, Beto O’Rourke’s campaign has been far more about image than substance.

The tone and content of President Trump’s 2020 campaign is already quite apparent.

The 2020 debate on Twitter does not represent ordinary Americans. Does that matter?

The Wikileaks founder has been detained by London authorities after 7 years hiding in Ecuador’s embassy.

It now appears that the Attorney General is keeping publicly-releasable information hidden away longer than necessary.

In 2016, a crowded Republican field yielded an unlikely nominee. Could history repeat itself in 2020?

After a flood of stories saying the former Vice President is unsuitable for the modern era, the inevitable pushback is happening.

Findings of “foreign influence, conflicts of interest, concerning personal conduct, financial problems, drug use, and criminal conduct” were dismissed.

It’s increasingly challenging to discuss media coverage because we’re all consuming a hand-selected bit of it.

The mea culpas and I-told-you-so’s are rather premature.

The Lawfare gang and Popehat weigh in.

The principal findings of the Mueller report are now public. They’re good news for the President on Russia and a mixed bag on obstruction.

The Speaker says she will reject any attempt to deliver it in a “highly classified” manner.

Lock them up.

The consolidation of Super Tuesday makes the current system even more broken than before.

David Gergen lives in a fantasy world.

Graham is blocking a vote on a non-binding resolution on the Mueller report.

Would a similarly-situated woman be getting such over-the-top coverage?

A WaPo writer takes a round-about path to demonstrate the obvious.

Free expression sometimes enables horrible crimes. How does a free society deal with that tension?

Massachusetts Democrat Seth Moulton makes an argument familiar to OTB readers.

For their 2020 convention, Democrats are headed to the Midwest.

Disgraced former Chief Justice of Alabama Roy Moore is apparently “seriously considering” running for Senate in 2020.

It’s been a rough two years under Trump, but America’s institutions are surviving.

Democratic candidates for President are quickly voicing support for marijuana legalization.

Republicans are blindly loyal to this President in a way we have not seen before. They are likely to end up paying a price for that.

As it has since 2007, the Democratic National Committee is barring Fox News from hosting a debate featuring the party’s candidates for President.

For the fourth time since the 2008 election cycle, Michael Bloomberg flirted with the idea of running for President. For the fourth time, he declined to do so.

The President continues to lie at an astounding rate that only seems to be getting worse. Does anyone care?

Does it depend on what the meaning of “running” is?

We won’t have Hillary Clinton to kick around anymore.

Roy Moore, who lost a Special Election to replace Jeff Sessions in 2017 after being hit with allegations of sexual harassment and sexual assault, isn’t ruling another bid for the same seat.