Outside the Beltway

The Republican candidate in today’s Special Election in Montana has been charged with assaulting a reporter.

There’s a Special Election in Montana tomorrow, and the Democratic candidate is performing far above expectations.

As usual, an attempt to explain congressional behavior brings us back to the issue of our basic institutions. The way we elect congress matters.

Independent of the current controversy surrounding President Trump’s immigration order, Republicans in Congress are looking at a plan to break up the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.

Megaprojects are not a partisan thing. Megaprojects are large projects typically costing more than $1 billion and often tens of billions of dollars and impacting the lives of tens of thousands of people if not millions.

Republicans are afraid to oppose Donald Trump for fear that his supporters will come after them.

A controversial member of George W. Bush’s foreign policy team is up for a post in Donald Trump’s State Department.

In a call to supporters, Hillary Clinton blames her loss on F.B.I. Director James Comey

Some Hillary Clinton supporters have a foolish and unworkable “plan” to steal Trump’s victory in the Electoral College. They should abandon it.

The fight for marijuana legalization advances in California.

Defying the odds and the polls, Donald Trump triumphed over Hillary Clinton to become the 45th President of the United States.

And the winner is……

With just one day to go, Clinton’s paths to victory continue to look far more realistic than Donald Trump’s.

Even if you’re not sure who you should vote for, it’s obvious who you shouldn’t vote for.

It has become necessary to destroy the party in order to save it.

I’ve been something of a political news junkie for 40 years now. This year has burned me out.

Seven days from now, millions of Americans will be headed to the polls. So far at least, Hillary Clinton is still the front runner.

For now at least, it looks as though last week’s email news is having little impact on the state of the race for President.

Her numbers are steady; he’s reclaiming Republican voters.

Two weeks before Election Day, everything seems to be going Hillary Clinton’s way.

With the lone exception of Bill Clinton in 1996, Arizona hasn’t gone for a Democrat since 1948. That streak could end this year.

With twenty-one days to go until Election Day, things are looking very good for Hillary Clinton.

Donald Trump is facing potential trouble in a state that has gone for a Democrat only twice since the end of World War II.

As we head into the second Presidential debate, Hillary Clinton looks to be in very good shape.

Damon Linker writes, “Millions of people disagree with your political views. That doesn’t make them moral monsters.”

With five weeks to go, the momentum in the race is moving decidedly in Hillary Clinton’s favor.

With just hours before the first debate, and six weeks until Election Day, the race for President remains tight.

Once again, the debate commission controlled by the two major parties is excluding third-party candidates from the Presidential debates.

Gary Johnson is doing better than any third-party candidate in twenty years, but that doesn’t mean he’s likely to get an invitation to the upcoming Presidential debates.

The election is now fifty-six days away and, while the race is tighter than it has been, it’s still one in which Hillary Clinton has seemingly all the advantages.

The idea that Donald Trump has gotten his racialized rhetoric from libertarians is simply errant nonsense. The libertarian view, broadly speaking, is not defined by Murray Rothbard, Llewellyn Rockwell, and Ron Paul and those who share their views. This is but a small and even fringe group of what could be called the libertarian community.

Libertarian Party Presidential candidate Gary Johnson doesn’t get much national press attention, and it doesn’t help when he flubs an answer like he did this morning.

It’s the traditional start of the campaign season, and the race for President is getting close, at least at the national level.

With ten weeks to go ,there’s been some tightening in the polls but Hillary Clinton continues to maintain a commanding lead in the race for the White House.

The “independent conservative” running for President is finding it hard to even get on the ballot.

It’s eleven weeks — just 77 days — until Election Day, and things are looking pretty good for Hillary Clinton, and pretty bad for Donald Trump.

GOP control of Indiana’s Senate seat appears to be in jeopardy, and that will have serious implications for the battle to control the Senate.

Not surprisingly, Latino voters are heavily turned off by Donald Trump and seemingly quite eager to vote against him in the fall.

Donald Trump’s path to 270 Electoral Votes is becoming less likely by the day.

Republican hopes that Wisconsin might go Republican this year seem to be slipping away.

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

New polling from the states has good news for Hillary Clinton, and an even less plausible path to 270 for Donald Trump.

More Republican officeholders are distancing themselves from Donald Trump, but it’s time to start wondering what took them so long,

The latest desperation bid from anti-Trump Republicans is guaranteed to make a GOP civil war more likely.

The first round of post-convention polls is now complete, and it’s not looking good for The Donald.

In a sign of just how bad the trends are right now for Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton is gaining ground in states that Mitt Romney won four years ago.

It’s been a bad week for Donald Trump, something he can ill-afford with less than 100 days left until Election Day.