Outside the Beltway

When it comes to issues like medical marijuana, Mitt Romney and Barack Obama are reading from the same playbook.

Another bad jobs report threatens to undermine whatever good will the President had coming off the Democratic National Convention.

President Obama didn’t blow the doors off the Time Warner Cable Arena last night, but he didn’t need to.

The President and his supporters say that Congressional Republicans will temper their rhetoric in a second Obama term. Don’t count on it.

Another platform controversy?

The President Obama lost his cool with Speaker Boehner on debt negotiations is not nearly as important as the underlying reason a deal couldn’t be reached.

Last night, Bill Clinton hit one out of the park for the President Of The United States.

A POLITICO analysis finds that “Obama and his top campaign aides have engaged far more frequently in character attacks and personal insults than the Romney campaign.”

What should have been a simple parliamentary procedure, conducted under President Obama’s orders no less, turned into something of an embarrassment.

Depending on what time you watched any of last night’s proceedings in Charlotte, you got a very different experience.

The Obama campaign’s 4.5 new private sector jobs claim is true, but only if you forget the first year of the Obama Administration.

It’s Obama’s race to lose, not a coin toss.

If we are going to assess the “Reagan Question” then methinks some data would be helpful.

The American public doesn’t think we can afford to cut any category of government spending, even imaginary ones.

Some unpleasant news for the Democrats in a new poll.

Do fiscal conservatives realize they’re being sold a bill of goods?

Some surprising findings about how America’s undergraduates are paying for their education.

Obama heads into his convention in a good position, but with several potential pitfalls in his path.

The front page of Sunday’s NYT profiled Valerie Jarrett, the power behind the throne at the Obama White House.

President Obama says he’s a huge Clint Eastwood fan and wasn’t offended by his performance at the RNC.

General Martin Dempsey, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, sent a message to Israel last week.

The Obama campaign clearly does not want Americans to consider whether they are better off now than they were four years ago.

So far, there’s very little movement in the polls for Governor Romney.

“Growing up in California, it was illegal for Asians to marry whites. How times have changed. I married a white DUDE.”