Outside the Beltway

Mitt Romney has had a rough two weeks, but Barack Obama has to deal with a bad economy.

President Obama set off a firestorm by claiming business owners didn’t build “that.”

Stephen Green projects the best case and minimal winning scenarios for Obama and Romney.

Virginia could be the state that decides who controls the United States Government.

The Romney campaign has apparently decided to be more aggressive in its attacks on the President, which poses serious risks for the campaign.

Romney says “We’re the party of people who want to get rich.”

While the Supreme Court’s decision in Citizens United has been blamed for the massive increase in money in this year’s campaign, it really wasn’t the culprit.

Another poll demonstrates the serious problems that the GOP has with Latino voters.

Rush Limbaugh made perhaps one of the dumber comments I’ve seen from the right about the entire Bain Capital story, and managed to display an apparent inability to use Google to look things up.

By failing to respond adequately, Mitt Romney is letting his opponent define him for the voters. That could hurt him greatly in November.

Once again people are saying that 2012 is an election year akin to 1860 or 1932. Once again, they are wrong.

The Koch brothers will spend more money in this election cycle than the entire McCain campaign did in 2008.

Reporters covering the 2012 election are letting the campaigns control what they report to a disturbing degree.

Mitt Romney’s intransigence over releasing more tax returns is politically stupid.

Is the Romney camp snubbing Sarah Palin?

The Romney campaign is trying to shift the narrative.

There are some indications that Mitt Romney may be ready to announce his running mate selection as early as this week.

The Romney campaign went on television to address the Bain issue, but again they just seem to have muddied the water.

The Obama campaign’s focus on Mitt Romney’s alleged involvement in moving companies overseas is entirely phony.

Isn’t the bottom line here that Romney and his campaign just screwed up?

Mitt Romney’s campaign is mishandling their response to the Bain story, and hurting the candidate in the process.

A new report on Mitt Romney’s tenure at Bain Capital seems to be much ado about nothing.

A new poll reveals a stark gap between the voting preferences of married and unmarried voters, but that shouldn’t be much of a surprise.

An overwhelming number of likely voters say President Obama has changed America; most say for the worse. He still leads Romney by 3 points.

Get ready for the battle over the Bush Tax Cuts to start up yet again.

The number of Pennsylvania voters without required photo IDs exceeds Obama’s 2008 margin of victory.

John Boehner speaks an inconvenient, for Mitt Romney at least, truth.

Looking back on the GOP nomination fight, it’s rather obvious that the media overplayed the idea that there was ever a real race going on.

The GOP’s arguments about the impact of ObamaCare on Medicare are dishonest and hypocritical.

Mitt Romney and Barack Obama traded barbs over the June jobs report, but neither one seems to have the answer to our problems.

With four months to go until Election Day, the Obama Campaign was greeted with a very dismal jobs report this morning.

The debate over whether the PPACA’s individual mandate is a “penalty” or a “tax”seems rather pointless.