Outside the Beltway

The West Virginia Senator has taken the football from Charlie Brown and gone home.

The Pentagon brass have defeated a supermajority coalition in Congress.

Would a woman with his credentials be taken seriously?

The semantic debate is obscuring the actual public policy issue.

Women didn’t vote for her either. But that doesn’t mean sexism didn’t play a role in her loss.

Four highly-qualified (and two less-qualified) women ran and lost in 2020.

The women, minority, and non-geriatric candidates have been all but eliminated from the race.

The wrong people are choosing the Democratic Party’s presidential nominee.

With Kamala Harris”s exit from the race, some are raising questions about why minority candidates have failed to break through in a party that has a very diverse base.

Is social media making it harder for Democrats to nominate a winning candidate?

Kirsten Gillibrand has dropped out of a Presidential race few people realized she was in.

The stage for the third Democratic debate, scheduled for mid-September, is set and its half the size of its predecessors.

As many as twelve candidates for the Democratic nomination may not qualify for the next debate. They should use that as an opportunity to get out of a race they clearly aren’t going to win.

As was the case a month ago, Vice-President Biden and Senator Kamala Harris were the focus of last night’s debate. Things turned out very differently, though.

The lineups for the second Democratic debate are set, and they include some interesting pairings.

Once again, twenty candidates will participate in the second debate scheduled to take place over two nights at the end of the month.

The numbers are in and there’s good news for some candidates and bad news for a lot of the others.

Democratic voters and donors appear to be narrowing their choices for a nominee down, which could mean a short future for a lot of current Democratic candidates.

Senator Elizabeth Warren raised $19 million despite eschewing the high-dollar fundraisers her opponents have utilized.

WIth the top two candidates in the race on the same stage, the second night of the first Democratic debate was much feistier than the first night.

The lineups for the first Democratic debate of the 2020 season are set but some candidates are likely to be unhappy.

The participants for the two-night opening debate of the 2020 campaign season have been announced, and the candidates who were excluded aren’t happy.

Former Vice-President Biden has come under fire for his longtime support for the Hyde Amendment.

Just over a month after he entered the race, Joe Biden has a commanding lead over his fellow Democrats while Bernie Sanders has several candidates hot on his heels.

So far at least, appearing on Fox News Channel does not appear to be hurting the candidates who’ve done it with Democratic voters.

Based on the early stages of the campaign for the 2020 Democratic Presidential nomination, it appears as though the party’s progressive wing has misread the signals being sent by the party’s voters.

Passing up an opportunity that other Democrats are taking, Elizabeth Warren is declining to appear on Fox News Channel. This seems like an unwise decision.

It’s an interesting idea, although one fraught with moral hazard.

A deep dive into typography and naming choices.

Cory Booker’s message of unity isn’t going over well with Democratic voters eager for a fight.

There’s a lot of money already chasing the 2020 presidential election.

It’s still early in the 2020 cycle, but Democratic candidate are finding rally attendees focused on one thing. Beating Donald Trump.

Senate Republicans are pushing for the end of minority obstruction—and the Democrats can’t wait.

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

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

Former Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper is the latest entrant into an already crowded Democratic field.

Washington Governor Jay Inslee is running for the Democratic nomination for President on a platform primarily focused on climate change. Whether that helps distinguish him from a growing field of candidates remains to be seen.

And I’d still prefer her to Donald Trump.

Literally no current candidate for President has a net favorable opinion rating.

Bernie is back and running for President, but he’s likely to face a tougher road this time around.

Gender bias is real. Most examples cited, though, aren’t.

Faced with a field that could be more crowded than the Republican field in 2016, Democrats have come up with a different solution to the rather obvious problem of debate scheduling.

It’s far too early, but Joe Biden’s advantages in these polls of Democratic voters can’t be ignored.

Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren is the latest entrant into an already crowded field for the Democratic nomination.

Another Friday, another political mess for the Commonwealth of Virginia.

New polling indicates that a solid majority of Democrats are more interested in finding a candidate who can beat Donald Trump in 2020 than they are with finding a candidate that agrees with them on specific issues.

National and Virginia Democratic officials are calling on Virginia Governor Ralph Northam to resign over racist photos in his 1984 medical school yearbook.

New Jersey Senator Cory Booker is the latest entrant into the race for the 2020 Democratic Nomination.

While much of the attention in the race for the Democratic nomination to date has been on the left, there is a path forward for a more centrist candidate.

A WaPo data analyst gives it a shot.