Outside the Beltway

The lunatic fringe idea is both appealing and unworkable.

The anti-Trump Republican could find re-election difficult.

A MAGA challenger has already emerged for 2024.

Discrimination? Issues? Incumbency?

No one should draw conclusions about RCV from the AK special election.

How long can the unsustainable be sustained?

At least not right away. But it’s quite possible by 2040.

Seeing no way to win under their own label, they’ve called a Hail Mary.

Neither the Democrats nor the Republicans truly represent most Americans. Fixing that is exceedingly unlikely.

The pandemic seems to have broken the social contract.

Is the stalwart of Senate bipartisanship interested in governing?

Politicians controlling lines control voters (instead of voters controlling politicians).

Cases per state adjusted for population.

The political calculus of Arizona’s senior Senator is unclear.

It’s time for our political leaders to grow a spine.

Are Sinema and Machin going to jump ship?

One party is divided on how to govern and the other is united in not governing.

The Commonwealth is much more diverse than national election returns might indicate.

A Trump-era policy designed to screw over blue states may actually be a good one.

Also some ironic positions on capitalism.

How the West Virginia Democrat came to vote for the stimulus bill.

And a discussion of markets (and a warning about partisanship).

Could the Vice President end the filibuster herself?

Let’s just say Rasmussen is an extreme outlier.

Injecting data into the conversation.

A fundamental building block of our system makes it nearly impossible to fix.

The latest Morning Consult numbers are more bad news for Trump.

The trend line shifted this week.

Leadership matters (as does sources of news).

Jeff Sessions demonstrates just how obsequious he’s willing to be to get his Senate seat back.

A conservative columnist explains how once-Republican states are switching sides.

Jeff Sessions entered the race for the GOP nomination for Senate in Alabama by heaping obsequious and pathetic praise on a man who had spent two years insulting him publicly and privately

Republicans in general and Donald Trump in particular suffered a big loss in the Kentucky Governor’s race.

Barely in office a year, California Congresswoman Katie Hill has been forced to resign in the face of inappropriate contact with a staff member and a campaign worker.

As widely expected, yesterday’s “jungle primary” in the Louisiana Governor’s race ended with nobody winning a majority.

The oldest living former President has some reflections on age and the strains of the office.

Democrat Jon Ossoff has thrown his hat in the ring to challenge David Perdue for Georgia’s Senate seat in 2020.

Another poll in the wake of this month’s mass shootings shows increased support for several gun control measures. That doesn’t mean Congress will act, though.

In the wake of the back-to-back shootings in Texas and Ohio, a new poll shows increased support for some gun control measures. But we’ve been here before.

The first night of the second Democratic debate consisted largely of clashes between the party’s progressive wing and more moderate elements.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has a challenger. Much like 2014, though, it’s far too early to start writing his political obituary.

A silly story for the silly season.

Kris Kobach, former Kansas Secretary of State and former head of President Trump’s “Voter Fraud” Commission, is running for Senator in Kansas.

Joe Biden recently said that he’d consider nominating Merrick Garland again if there were a Supreme Court vacancy while he was President. Don’t count on it.

A considerable number of Republican have effectively left our party over Donald Trump. Should we go all the way?

In the first poll since he entered the race, Roy Moore finds himself in third place in the race for the 2020 Republican Nomination for Senate in Alabama.

Much to the chagrin of Republicans hoping to win back a Senate seat they never should have lost, Roy Moore is running for Senate again in Alabama.

A new poll of Texas voters shows President Trump doing worse than expected against potential Democratic challengers. Should Republicans be worried?

Roy Moore has not said that he’s running for Senate again in Alabama, but he’s already threatening to up-end the race for the GOP nomination.

Democrats in South Carolina seem to think they have a shot at beating Lindsey Graham in 2020. I wouldn’t be so sure of that.