Outside the Beltway

No, the EC is not going to elect Clinton.

On Tuesday night the Establishment won and won yuge. (From new OTB contributor, Michael Bailey)

In what seems like a replay of the primary battle between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders, some top Democratic Party leadership positions may be in jeopardy.

With Donald Trump on the ballot, Bill Maher regrets some past words. He shouldn’t be the only one.

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

Candidate trumps party in a presidential system.

Paul Ryan is abandoning the Trump campaign.

Republicans are abandoning Donald Trump in droves after last night’s revelation of lewd remarks he made in 2005.

Tuesday night’s running mate debate had lower viewership than any such encounter in sixteen years.

Nothing that happens tonight during the Vice-Presidential debate is likely to matter, so feel free to skip it.

House Republicans are vowing to continue their investigations even if Hillary Clinton wins the White House.

A Trump loss in November could lead to battles inside the GOP that could take years to resolve.

America’s largest voting bloc is heavily turned off by Donald Trump, and that is posing long-term problems for Republicans in general.

Another day, another round of irresponsible demagoguery from Donald Trump.

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

The nature of US parties means that Trump more or less is the GOP at the moment, and hence the GOP will do nothing about Trump.

Donald Trump continues to be Donald Trump. Which is quickly turning into a political disaster.

As expected, Hillary Clinton went with the ‘safe’ choice, and has selected Virginia Senator Tim Kaine as her running mate.

The least likely choice ascends to the Number Two position on the Republican ticket.

If reports are correct, Indiana Governor Mike Pence will be Donald Trump’s choice for a running mate.

Hillary Clinton’s extreme carelessness with classified information probably won’t cost her the election, but it should.

A purported ‘short list’ of potential running mates for Hillary Clinton is out. Here’s how the candidates stack up.

Donald Trump’s latest outbursts are causing Republicans to move away from him faster than you can say “electoral disaster.”

Top Republican donors are becoming increasingly concerned that Donald Trump isn’t paying enough attention to raising money for the General Election campaign.

With top Republicans recoiling from the realization that the GOP is stuck with Trump in 2016, the ground seems to be being prepared for a conflict that could tear the GOP apart regardless of who wins in November.

Republicans have a choice to make and, so far, they’ve been making the wrong one.

After initially expressing doubts about his candidacy, Speaker of the House Paul Ryan has lined up behind Donald Trump.

Paul Ryan is declining to back Donald Trump for the time being, but other Republicans are making their own choices.

Several top Republicans have already said that they would not accept a position on a ticket with Donald Trump, so who might he choose?

Paul Ryan takes himself out of contention as a potential Republican nominee.

With the Republican nomination fight down to two incredibly unappealing candidates, some Republican insiders are talking about looking elsewhere for a nominee.

Five months after becoming Speaker of the House, Paul Ryan seems to be running into some of the same difficulties that John Boehner did.

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

The effort to stop Donald Trump seems likely to set off a civil war inside the Republican Party.

The President has another plan to close the prison at Guantanamo Bay. It’s as likely to be well-received on Capitol Hill as all of his other previous plans on this issue.

In a new Gallup poll, Republicans say they want a “conservative” as their Presidential nominee, but they may regret what happens if they get the kind of hard-right conservative they seem to be thinking of.

The final spending bill for the 2016 Fiscal Year sailed through Congress today, marking the end of a very successful first two months in office for Speaker Paul Ryan

Polling shows that most Americans oppose Donald Trump’s plan to bar Muslim’s from immigrating to the United States, but Republicans are far more receptive to the idea.

Donald Trump’s plan to bar all Muslim immigration to the United States is being widely condemned by his fellow Republicans and others, but the proposal probably won’t hurt him politically in a Republican Party that is deeply bigoted against Muslims in general.

The no-fly list is a flawed, arbitrary mess that has kept innocent people from flying for years. Using it to deny people rights recognized by the Constitution is, quite honestly, insane.

Yesterday, the British Parliament debated the expansion of that nation’s military strikes against ISIS. For more than a year, our cowardly Congress has failed to even hold one debate or vote on America’s role in that conflict.

With little actual debate and despite Paul Ryan’s promise of a return to ‘regular order,’ the House has passed a hastily drafted bill in response to the largely fear-based response to Syrian refugees in the wake of the Paris attacks.

Not surprisingly, a new poll shows that most Americans are at the very least skeptical about the Administration’s plans regarding Syrian refugees.

A new Gallup poll shows public approval of Congress once again approaching historic lows, but it means far less than anyone thinks.