Outside the Beltway

There was far too much pseudoscience in evidence during the Republican Debate on Wednesday.

The Republican candidates for President took to the stage last night for a debate that seemed to last forever and accomplished nothing.

Even taking the fact that he is the Republican frontrunner into account, Donald Trump is getting a disproportionate amount of attention from the political media.

To listen to many of the Republican candidates for President, it would appear that the lights have been turned out on Ronald Reagan’s shining city on a hill.

Donald Trump and Ben Carson remain at the top of the Republican Presidential field heading into the second debate on Wednesday.

A new poll shows that the vast majority of Americans oppose Kim Davis’s refusal to follow the law, even while some Republican candidates rally behind her.

Most of the Republican candidates for President would rather support a lawbreaker than the Rule of Law. The American people should judge them accordingly.

CNN has revised its criteria for the main September 16th debate such that Carly Fiorina will now most likely make the cut.

The longer this race goes on, the hard it becomes to deny the truth about Donald Trump.

None of the top eight candidates in current polls have made a previous bid for the nomination.

Two candidates with no political experienced whatsoever are tied in Iowa as Republican voters continue to reject anyone with political experience.

Jeb Bush’s campaign has been in a rough patch for several weeks at least, and now he’s lost three top fundraisers.

Carly Fiorina will most likely be excluded from CNN’s prime time debate in September, so of course her campaign is complaining about rules that were established months ago.

Donald Trump’s support in the polls appears to become coming largely from people who don’t typically vote in primary elections.

Republican officials in three states are looking at ways to keep Donald Trump off the primary ballot unless he pledges to support the eventual GOP nominee.

Donald Trump is still in the lead of the Republican circus, but the rest of the field remains uncertain in the wake of the first debate.

Donald Trump isn’t backing down from his post-debate meltdown, now the only question is what the polls will tell us when they come out.

Last night reinforced what I thought about some candidates and changed what I think about others.

Donald Trump is center stage, John Kasich is in, and Rick Perry is relegated to the kid’s table.

The last three polls to be released before Thursday’s debate show Donald Trump continuing to solidify his lead.

Another poll, another Donald Trump lead

In 1992, an eccentric billionaire ran an independent campaign against a Bush and a Clinton. It could happen again.

Donald Trump leads in the first of the final polls to be released before Thursday’s debate.

The big winners are Jeb Bush and Hillary Clinton.

The first of a series of polls in anticipation of next week’s debate shows Donald Trump still at the top, with a surprise coming out of Ohio.

The current Republican primary polls are “measuring a unicorn electorate” yet effect the outcome of the race.

With just over a week to go, Republican candidates for President are fighting for the movement in the polls that could get them in to the August 6th debate.

His remarks about John McCain’s military service don’t seem to be hurting Donald Trump with Republican true believers.

Ohio Governor John Kasich looks good on paper, but his campaign seems as though it’s unlikely to get out of the starting gate.

Despite his remarks about John McCain, Donald Trump is likely to be around for some time to come.

Rand Paul’s Presidential campaign isn’t going so well at the moment.

Republicans have nobody to blame but themselves for the anti-immigrant Frankenstein in their midst.

Donald Trump leads in a new national poll, but a deeper look at the numbers suggests that this Trump Bubble can’t last for very much longer.

A 1980 debate between Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush shows a different GOP.

Donald Trump has gotten almost nothing but negative press since entering the race for President, but it doesn’t seem to be hurting him very much just yet.

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

The events of the past two weeks could allow the Republican Party to move forward.

In an ordinary year, Ohio Governor John Kasich seems like he’d be a perfect candidate for Republicans in an era when winning the Buckeye State is essential to winning the White House. But things are far from ordinary in the GOP.

There’s a lot of pandering and outright nonsense in the wake of the Supreme Court’s legalization of gay marriage.

The reaction of many of the GOP candidates to the decision in Obergefell v. Hodges is about what you’d expect, but there are a few interesting surprises.

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

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.

It’s been obvious from the moment the news broke that the murders in Charleston were rooted in racism, but some Republicans have had trouble acknowledging that.

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

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

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