Outside the Beltway

Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal enters the Presidential race today, but it’s hard to see how he even manages to become a plausible candidate.

Chris Christie appears set to enter the race for the Republican Presidential nomination, but voters back home in New Jersey don’t seem to think very highly of him anymore.

Virginia Republicans are deciding later this week how they will make their choice in the 2016 Presidential Race. And they may end up regretting their decision.

A new poll shows that Hillary Clinton remains largely unstoppable on her quest for the Democratic Presidential Nomination, and she has a pretty clear path to the White House as well.

Jeb Bush’s campaign launch seems to be going well so far, while Rand Paul and Ted Cruz (and Donald Trump) seem to be slipping.

With notable exceptions, most of the Republican candidates for President are refusing to take a stand on the propriety of South Carolina flying the Confederate Flag. That’s called cowardice.

Two new polls show Bernie Sanders rising in the polls in New Hampshire, but they likely don’t mean anything in the long term.

We live in a random and chaotic universe.

To nobody’s surprise, Jeb Bush has entered the race for President.

Hillary Clinton opened a new phase in her campaign for President yesterday with a speech in New York City.

The Iowa Supreme Court strikes a blow for liberty.

After 36 years, the quadrennial absurdity of the Iowa Straw Poll is dead.

Iowa Republicans may be a day away from putting the Iowa Straw Poll out of its, and our, misery.

It will be some time before sanity prevails in the GOP, but slowly but surely Republicans seem to be becoming less socially conservative.

He hasn’t declared yet, but Scott Walker is running for President, and he’s pandering to the most extreme wing of the Republican Party.

Yet another poll shows that most Americans support a path to citizenship, and that a majority of Republican agree with them.

Rick Perry is hoping to do something that hasn’t happened before in American politics, come back from a campaign that imploded.

Once seen as a rising Republican star, Bobby Jindal’s impending Presidential bid now looks like it’s over before it begins.

After months of “not running,” Jeb Bush will formally enter the Presidential race on June 15th.

Hillary Clinton remains as much the inevitable Democratic nominee as she always has been.

Lindsey Graham is the latest entrant into the Presidential race, but it’s hard to see how he gets out of the bottom of the polls.

Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker isn’t officially a candidate for President yet, but he’s doing quite well in Iowa anyway.

The New York Times really, really wants a horse race for the Democratic nomination.

The Iowa Straw Poll seems to be dying, and that’s a good thing.

Martin O’Malley is running for President for some reason.

Donald Trump is probably just messing around with all of us again, but he’s certainly acting like someone who’s running for President.

The race for the Republican nomination is as tight as ever, and so far nobody seems to be emerging as a clear front-runner.

Republican Presidential candidate Mike Huckabee is continuing his absurd and dangerous war on the Supreme Court.

What if they held a straw poll and nobody came?

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.

Thwarted by the legislature, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal used his executive power to take action that seems directed more toward evangelicals in Iowa than anything happening in his home state.

With 14 candidates vying for the Republican nomination, TV execs are scrambling to make the debates watchable.

Hillary Clinton has admitted she made a mistake in supporting the Iraq War in 2002, but there are plenty of other questions she needs to answer when it comes to foreign interventions.

Maryland’s former Governor will announce his candidacy for President next week. Don’t expect him to go very far.

Drip, Drip, Drip.

The largely conservative state of Nebraska seems to be on the verge of repealing its law authorizing capital punishment.

South Carolina’s Senior Senator is set to be the latest entry into the race for the Republican nomination.

Some analysts are wondering if Jeb Bush might just forgo investing serious resources in the Iowa Caucuses.

Lindsey Graham says that, if elected president, he would summarily kill anyone thinking about joining ISIS.

The Republican debate stage in 2016 is going to be even more crowded than it was in 2012.

Former Texas Governor Rick Perry is going to be looking for that elusive second act in American politics.

George Stephanopoulos’ s ties to the Clinton’s have always raised questions about his objectivity. Now, there’s further reason to doubt that he can play fair when the Clinton’s are part of the story he’s covering.

Jeb Bush will not participate in this year’s version of the Iowa Straw Poll.

Hillary Clinton hasn’t taken questions from reporters in three weeks. Because she doesn’t need the media as much as most other candidates.

For reasons only he can understand. South Carolina’s senior Senator will be entering the race for the White House early next month.

Once again, only six or seven states are likely to matter.

Two Republican candidates for President say that Republican elected officials should simply ignore the Supreme Court if it strikes down bans on same-sex marriage.

Break out the sweater vests, Rick Santorum is getting ready to enter the race for the Republican Presidential Nomination.