Outside the Beltway

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.

If polls are any indication, voters are set to legalize marijuana in five more states on Tuesday.

Looking beyond FiveThirtyEight

A look at the Electoral College shows that It is far more likely that Hillary Clinton will win the election than that Donald Trump will.

Early voting is favoring Democrats in a wide variety of swing states.

The final debate of 2016 didn’t draw as many viewers as the first Hillary v. Donald match-up, but it still drew a respectable number.

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

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

Donald Trump appears to be pushing voters from America’s fastest growing minority group into the Democratic camp.

Democratic hopes of retaking the Senate aren’t going so well at the moment.

Yesterday, Hillary Clinton pointed out truths about Donald Trump that his fellow Republicans were too scared to point out during the primary..

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

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.

Another poll confirms that Virginia is firmly in the pocket of Hillary Clinton.

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

With Donald Trump floundering, there are a whole lot of nervous Republican Senators up for re-election.

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

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

The Old Dominion seems like it’s going to be even more firmly Democratic in 2016.

Looking at the Electoral College, it’s already apparent that Donald Trump’s campaign faces a daunting, perhaps impossible, path to victory.

Californians are set to vote on marijuana legalization in November and, this time, it looks like it will pass.

As expected, the Senate rejected four gun control measures introduced in the wake of the attack in Orlando.

An increasing number of Republican politicians are finding reasons to skip the Republican National Convention.

Even as it becomes more and more apparent that he cannot win the Democratic nomination for President, Bernie Sanders is not letting up on his rhetoric against the leadership of the party he claims he’ll support in November.

Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders split victories in Kentucky and Oregon last night, and Clinton is now less than 100 delegates away from an historic victory.

A first look at the Electoral College paints a very grim picture for Donald Trump and the GOP.

The two men most likely to win the Republican nomination aren’t very well liked outside the Republican Party.

Bernie Sanders pulled off another win, but it puts him no closer to having a realistic chance of winning the nomination.

If Donald Trump is the Republican nominee, the GOP may have more to worry about than losing the White House and the Senate.

Donald Trump is motivating people! The problem for Republicans is that he’s motivating them to become citizens so they can vote against him and, potentially, other Republicans.

They haven’t gotten much attention, but there are five contests today as the 2016 nomination process continues to move forward.

As expected, Hillary Clinton won big last night while Bernie Sanders largely floundered, thus going further toward making Clinton’s victory inevitable.

As expected, Donald Trump dominated Super Tuesday, putting himself one step closer to becoming the Republican nominee for President.

Hillary Clinton crushed Bernie Sander last night in South Carolina, pushing the race further down the path that leads to an inevitable outcome.

Bizarrely, the Marco Rubio campaign seems to be telling donors that their candidate may have to hope for a brokered convention to win the GOP nomination.

Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz landed some punches on Donald Trump last night, but it’s doubtful that they changed the nature of the race.

On Tuesday, Ted Cruz’s campaign faces what amounts to a do-or-die battle in Texas.

If Marco Rubio can’t win in his home state, where can he win?

A new poll shows Donald Trump with historically low support for a Republican from Latino voters. That’s a recipe for electoral disaster.

With the Democratic race headed into territory where Hillary Clinton is heavily favored, Bernie Sanders may finally be coming to realize that he can’t possibly win the Democratic nomination.

Is President Obama planning a Checkmate move in the SCOTUS nomination fight?

This year’s Nevada Caucuses are a good argument for why there should not be any more caucuses.