Outside the Beltway

A Federal Appeals Court has dealt a setback to Texas in the battle over its Voter ID Law.

Donald Trump is center stage, John Kasich is in, and Rick Perry is relegated to the kid’s table.

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

Another poll, another Donald Trump lead

Donald Trump leads in the first of the final polls to be released before Thursday’s debate.

The first of a series of polls in anticipation of next week’s debate shows Donald Trump still at the top, with a surprise coming out of Ohio.

His remarks about John McCain’s military service don’t seem to be hurting Donald Trump with Republican true believers.

Get ready for another pointless political circus.

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.

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

Donald Trump leads in a new national poll, but a deeper look at the numbers suggests that this Trump Bubble can’t last for very much longer.

A new polls seems to show that Republicans are still clinging to their opposition to marriage equality in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision in Obergefell.

Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker has formally entered the race for President, but can he overcome his flip-flops and a turn to the hard right?

He’s second in national polls!

Taxes on wine, beer, and spirits vary wildly from state-to-state and even within each state.

Former Virginia Senator Jim Webb is running for President for reasons I would assume make sense to him.

Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker will be entering the race for President later this month, but it’s unclear if his recent turn to the hard right will help him or hurt him.

Donald Trump has gotten almost nothing but negative press since entering the race for President, but it doesn’t seem to be hurting him very much just yet.

The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a major case about public employee unions that could go a long way toward restraining their power.

In an ordinary year, Ohio Governor John Kasich seems like he’d be a perfect candidate for Republicans in an era when winning the Buckeye State is essential to winning the White House. But things are far from ordinary in the GOP.

The reaction of many of the GOP candidates to the decision in Obergefell v. Hodges is about what you’d expect, but there are a few interesting surprises.

Republicans aren’t going to like this one.

Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal enters the Presidential race today, but it’s hard to see how he even manages to become a plausible candidate.

A new poll shows that Hillary Clinton remains largely unstoppable on her quest for the Democratic Presidential Nomination, and she has a pretty clear path to the White House as well.

As Governor Haley pushes the South Carolina legislature to take the Confederate Flag down, the movement moves beyond the Palmetto State.

Jeb Bush’s campaign launch seems to be going well so far, while Rand Paul and Ted Cruz (and Donald Trump) seem to be slipping.

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.

To nobody’s surprise, Jeb Bush has entered the race for President.

He hasn’t declared yet, but Scott Walker is running for President, and he’s pandering to the most extreme wing of the Republican Party.

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis has been charged criminally for its role in covering up sexual abuse of children by Priests.

After months of “not running,” Jeb Bush will formally enter the Presidential race on June 15th.

Lindsey Graham is the latest entrant into the Presidential race, but it’s hard to see how he gets out of the bottom of the polls.

Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker isn’t officially a candidate for President yet, but he’s doing quite well in Iowa anyway.

The Iowa Straw Poll seems to be dying, and that’s a good thing.

The race for the Republican nomination is as tight as ever, and so far nobody seems to be emerging as a clear front-runner.

What if they held a straw poll and nobody came?

With 14 candidates vying for the Republican nomination, TV execs are scrambling to make the debates watchable.

The largely conservative state of Nebraska seems to be on the verge of repealing its law authorizing capital punishment.

Lindsey Graham says that, if elected president, he would summarily kill anyone thinking about joining ISIS.

Bill and Hillary Clinton have done quite well for themselves of the speaking circuit.

Former Texas Governor Rick Perry is going to be looking for that elusive second act in American politics.

Once again, only six or seven states are likely to matter.

A new poll has some bad news for Jeb Bush in the Hawkeye State, which leads to the idea that maybe he shouldn’t waste too much time there to begin with.