Outside the Beltway

The Generic Congressional Ballot has tightened in some recent polls, but on average the battle for control of Congress continues to favor Democrats.

President Trump’s decision to violate the terms of the nuclear deal with Iran could be a turning point in relations between the United States and its most important allies, and not in a good way.

Hillary Clinton isn’t running for anything in 2018, but that isn’t stopping Republicans from running against her.

Kyrsten Sinema, the likely Democratic nominee for the Senate in Arizona, is leading all three of her potential Republican challengers. This could spell trouble for the GOP.

The first real poll of the Senate race in Texas shows Ted Cruz with a much thinner lead than might be expected in a state like Texas. That doesn’t mean we should expect a Democratic upset there, though.

Whether they like it or not, Republican candidates in the midterms will have to run with the albatross of Donald Trump around their necks.

Things continue to look good for Democrats as we get closer to the midterm elections.

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.

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

More good poll numbers for Democrats as we headed into 2018.

A top Republican political analyst is warning that a Roy Moore victory in Alabama could pose real problems for Republicans in 2018. If it does, they’ll have nobody to blame but themselves.

To nobody’s surprise, a blue state returns to its roots.

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.

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

Americans support allowing Dreamers to stay in the country, and most of them also support allowing them to eventually become citizens.

Donald Trump is the most unpopular incoming President in more than eighty years.

Trump’s job approval numbers continue to sink.

Two new polls show Donald Trump hitting new lows in the polls as we get closer to his 100th day in office.

With Donald Trump on the ballot, Bill Maher regrets some past words. He shouldn’t be the only one.

Donald Trump’s support among African-Americans is at historic lows, and seems unlikely to recover.

Hillary Clinton delvers a largely successful acceptance speech that caps off a convention that ran far smoother than its Republican counterpart.

A look at the state of the race before the two party conventions begin.

Another big night for Hillary Clinton, and more bad news for Bernie Sanders.

As expected, Donald Trump scored a huge victory in his home state last night and now appears to be back on track to win the GOP nomination.

Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz landed some punches on Donald Trump last night, but it’s doubtful that they changed the nature of the race.

Donald Trump won his third contest in a row in Nevada, putting him one step closer to inevitability.

Conservatives are sending a message to Senate Republicans about the vacancy on the Supreme Court, and it may require them to initiate a suicidal game plan.

Two new polls show that Americans are basically split equally on the question of who should appoint the Justice that will replace Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court.

Donald Trump is on the verge of another big victory.

The unity of the Republican Senate on the idea of no hearings or votes, if it ever really existed, appears to be cracking.

Republicans are putting much on the line in their refusal to consider any Supreme Court nomination from President Obama.

Unless the polls are very wrong, it looks to be a good night for Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump. Beyond that, there’s a lot that’s still up in the air.

With mere days until voting starts, the possibility of Donald Trump running the table in the February primaries and caucuses, or nearly doing so, is more and more likely.

After an eleven hour day on Capitol Hill, it was Hillary Clinton 1 House Benghazi Committee 0.

Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders may think otherwise, but many Americans do care about Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server while Secretary of State.

In the wake of yesterday’s shootings in Oregon, President Obama took the airwaves to offer the same empty rhetoric he has on this issue in the past, and to make the false claim that there are simple solutions to what is a very complex problem.

Vice-President Biden continues to rise in the polls even though he has yet to actually enter the race for President.

The first significant national polls taken in the wake of last week’s debate show that Donald Trump has slipped somewhat, but still remains the clear leader of the Republican race for President.

Donald Trump says he still doesn’t know where the President was born, but he’d rather not talk about that anymore.

Chris Christie is in the race for the Republican nomination, but it’s tough to see how he has a plausible path to relevance.

Hillary Clinton is a deeply flawed candidate who might not even make a very good President. But that doesn’t matter in the race for the Democratic Nomination, and she’s probably going to be the next President anyway.

Jeb Bush told a group of supporters that his brother is his top Middle East policy adviser. This strikes me as being a bad idea.

So far at least, there’s little evidence in the polls that Hillary Clinton has been hurt by the news reports about the financial dealings of the Clinton Foundation.

The House was set to vote on a ban on abortion after 20 weeks that never would have become law today but they pulled the bill. Conservatives are annoyed, but it was smart politics in the long run.

The GOP donor class would like the 2016 race to be short and sweet, but that’s unlikely to happen.

Early numbers seem to suggest that it depends on which state you’re looking at.

Polls continue to show that most Americans are largely tuning the midterms out.