Outside the Beltway

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

While conservatives have been generally as appalled as others with the news out of Staten Island, some of them are looking in the wrong place for blame.

The numbers don’t lie, Mitt Romney remains popular among Republican voters.

When push comes to shove, top Republicans may still try to make Mitt Romney happen.

An adviser close to Hillary Clinton is talking about expanding the Electoral College map in 2016, but even without such an expansion the GOP faces an uphill battle.

The process that seems likely to lead to a Supreme Court ruling on same-sex marriage has begun.

As things stand right now, there is no legitimate legal authorization for the President’s war against ISIS, and that’s largely because Congress has failed to act.

The GOP’s big wins last week seem to be just guaranteeing that this year’s battle between the Tea Party and the “establishment” will continue.

The GOP is dominant in the Southern United States, but it’s unlikely to last as long as Democratic dominance of the region did.

Voter Turnout was lower this year than in any midterm since the one held eleven months after the attack on Pearl Harbor.

In addition to gains at the national level and in Governor’s races, the GOP also saw more gains in state legislatures around the country.

An unsurprising ruling from the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals that only seems to bring closer the day when same-sex marriage will be legal nationwide.

The results of the 2014 midterms should teach us some lessons about how to handle and evaluate polling.

2014 was not supposed to be a wave election, but it clearly qualifies as one.

Time to look into the crystal ball.

Rebranding alone isn’t going to fix what’s causing the GOP to lose ground among a whole host of demographic groups.

The odds say that the GOP will end up with a Senate majority in the 114th Congress when all the votes are counted, but if it doesn’t happen then there’s likely to be quite a battle inside the GOP.

Kentucky Senator Rand Paul continues to challenge Republican orthodoxy on foreign policy, and that’s a good thing.

Things are looking good for the GOP to take over the Senate, but there are still several right races that could tip the balance one way or the other.

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

There’s at least a 50-50 chance we won’t know who controls the Senate until weeks after Election Day.

To a large degree, the Democratic Party’s supposed advantage among women voters appears to not exist this year.

It’s way too early, folks.

Sometimes, being evasive in answering a question just makes a politician look silly. This is one of those times.

Mike Huckabee is threatening to leave the GOP if the party backs down on same-sex marriage. He’s bluffing.

Individual polls are likely to be volatile, so don’t pay too much attention to them.

Is former Senator Larry Pressler surging in his Independent bid to win back his old Senate seat?

The death of the Tea Party is greatly exaggerated.

Could Alison Lundergran Grimes be surging? Maybe, but we’ll need more evidence to be sure.

If the GOP wins the Senate in November, their majority could prove to be fleeting.

Combining politics, an incessantly sensationalist news cycle, and a virus that scares a lot of people can’t end well.

While the battle for the Senate remains up in the air, the Republican majority in the House remains secure.

Two weeks after it seemed to be tightening, there are signs the battle for control of the Senate may be moving in the GOP’s direction.

Justice Ginsburg had some interesting things to say about the same-sex marriage cases headed to the Supreme Court.

Republicans still have an advantage, but Democrats seem to be holding their own in the battle for Senate control.

Mitch McConnell’s campaign was forced to do a shakeup thanks to a scandal that could envelop Ron Paul’s 2012 Presidential campaign.

So far at least, there is no evidence that 2014 will be a “wave election.”

The General Accounting Office confirmed what seems clear to anyone who can read a statute.

If Republicans win the Senate, what we’ve seen for the past three years could end up seeming tame by comparison.

Some on the left are saying that Hillary Clinton isn’t doing enough to help Democrats in 2014.

A trial court judge in Tennessee is the first jurist since the Supreme Court’s decision in U.S. v. Windsor to uphold a ban on same-sex marriage

The GOP has a good chance of taking the Senate in 2014, but it will be by a narrow margin.