Outside the Beltway

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

Janet Reno, who served as Attorney General for nearly all of the Bill Clinton Administration, has died at 78.

F.B.I. Director Comey tells Congress that it’s investigation into new emails revealed no information to change its conclusions about Hillary Clinton and her email server.

Two of Chris Christie’s closest aides were convicted in the criminal trial resulting from the ‘Bridgegate’ scandal.

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.

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

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

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

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

A golf legend passes away.

Clinton stumbles and leaves an event early, leading to the news that her campaign has been withholding health information from the press.

A long way off, but there are some important pre-trial matters to resolve between now and then.

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.

Another sign of a weak economy as the Federal Reserve considers rate hikes and the Presidential campaign moves forward.

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.

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

Donald Trump has spent more time recently attacking the news media than anything else. He ought to be condemned for it.

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

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

Donald Trump’s strange relationship with reality continues to come to light,

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

A new poll shows Donald Trump barely winning in a state that should be solidly red.

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.

It just keeps getting worse.

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

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

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

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

Post-convention polling at the state level holds some bad news for the Trump campaign.

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

Turkey’s government appears to have rebuffed a coup attempt, but questions remains about the stability of the government going forward.

Hillary Clinton holds solid leads over Donald Trump in seven battleground states.

Many pundits are arguing that the victory for ‘Leave’ presages good news for Trump in November, but there’s no reason to believe that.

Donald Trump has a steep hill to climb to reverse a quarter century trend.

A small group of Republican delegates is apparently discussing yet another quixotic effort to deny Donald Trump the nomination.

The Who Moved My Cheese? Edition OTB Caption Contest^TM is now over.

A Pennsylvania Judge ruled today that there was sufficient evidence against Bill Cosby to allow the sexual assault charges against him to proceed to trial.

Several recent polls have shown the race between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton tightening, but it likely means far less than the media hype makes it sound like.

Begun, the bathroom wars have.

Even before the 2016 convention, Republicans are talking about possible rules changes to stop another Trump-like candidate in 2020 or beyond.

The political fight over North Carolina’s so-called “Bathroom Bill” has moved to the Federal Courts.

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

For better or worse, Republicans seem to be resigning themselves to the inevitable.

In an unprecedented move that reeks of desperation, Ted Cruz is naming Carly Fiorina as his running mate before the primary process has even ended.