Outside the Beltway

For a variety of reasons, it’s unlikely that the Republican field will shrink significantly before the Iowa Caucuses.

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

The big winners are Jeb Bush and Hillary Clinton.

Polling in three battleground states shows Hillary Clinton slightly trailing three top Republicans, but it means far less than you might think.

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.

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

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

As much as I wish it were otherwise, Iowa and New Hampshire are not losing their influence over the Presidential primary process.

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.

Mitt Romney decided not to run in 2016 but he’s very much in the race.

Rick Perry is hoping to do something that hasn’t happened before in American politics, come back from a campaign that imploded.

Break out the sweater vests, Rick Santorum is getting ready to enter the race for the Republican Presidential Nomination.

Far from being a positive, Hillary Clinton’s time as Secretary of State provides ample material for those who would attack her over the next eighteen months.

Pundits and political scientists agree that, if the 2016 presidential election were today, we’d have a much better idea who would win.

Rand Paul has changed position on several foreign policy issues, but he doesn’t seem to want to talk about it.

The former Florida Governor announced that he’s taking the first step towards running for president in 2016.

Rick Santorum looks to be getting ready to hit the campaign trail again, but it’s doubtful he can find appeal beyond the religious conservatives who supported him in 2012.

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

After a disastrous campaign in 2012, Texas Governor Rick Perry appears to be gearing up for a new run for the White House in 2016, but questions remain.

Politicians on both sides of the aisle like to tell people they’re just “average Americans,” but they’re lying and the American people seem to have figured out that they’re lying.

CNN’s effort to bring back a show that had outlived its prime years ago has, predictably, failed.

Could the GOP offer a positive governing agenda if they controlled Congress?

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

It’s beginning to look like the 2016 race for the Republican nomination will have its own collection of oddballs.

In 1995, the Speaker predicted Medicare is “going to wither on the vine because we think people are voluntarily going to leave it.”

Ed Klein says he has “Democrat sources” who Obama wants Warren to continue his mission to “transform America into a European-style democratic-socialist state.”

One of the longest serving Members of Congress just got his political career saved.

Boehner ready to pack it in?

Is the GOP headed down a road that leads to yet another doomed impeachment and trial?

An award for breaking a campaign promise.

Good news for Republicans.

It might not be pretty.

In retrospect, and in comparison with other recent Presidents, George Herbert Walker Bush’s four years in office were pretty darn good.

Top Republican donors are starting to look at the former Governor of Florida as their candidate in 2016.

Calling anyone a front-runner in a race where we’re still two years away from anyone casting votes is silly. Nonetheless, Rand Paul is an interesting guy to watch for those wondering if the GOP has actually changed.

Does your kid qualify for subsidized lunch? One candidate for Senate in Georgia wants to put them to work.

Some on the American right have a very odd view of both Nelson Mandela and the Apartheid regime he fought against.

Chris Christie has had a very good month, and it’s ending with him with a strong lead among potential Republican candidates for 2016.

Nearly two-thirds of House Republicans voted for default. They lost.

It’s a party thing.

Being Speaker of the House has become much more of a difficult job than it used to be.

There’s no denying it now. The GOP is being harmed by the events in Washington far more than the President and Democrats in general.

There’s a way for President Obama and Speaker Boehner to talk out a deal to resolve the current crisis, but they have to want to do it.

It’s now clear that, absent an unlikely miracle, there will be a government shutdown.

It may be Rick Santorum’s “turn” but he’s too harsh and extreme to win the nomination.