Outside the Beltway

Will the prohibitive favorite for the 2016 Democratic nomination do it differently this time around?

When it comes to same-sex marriage, the GOP finds itself on the horns of a dilemma.

The final release of President Lyndon Johnson’s tape recordings reveals a bizarre plot.

Frustrated Republican health care staffers are leaving the Hill for lucrative positions on K Street.

Institutional dynamics in the US constitutional system are the key to undertstanding our current predicament.

We really don’t need to be treating Inauguration Day like it’s the coronation of a new King.

The GOP is following a strategy on the debt ceiling that cannot possibly succeed.

From a political point of view, the GOP’s position on taxes makes no sense at all.

A quick post on a pet peeve.

Less than two weeks after he lost the election, the GOP is acting as if Mitt Romney never existed.

Believing the maker/taker dichotomy.

I just came across Peggy Noonan’s pre-election column. It is quite illustrative.

There are still votes to be counted, and the Romney campaign has yet to concede, but the race is over and Barack Obama has been re-elected.

Will Ohio’s Provisional Ballot’s be 2012’s version of the Hanging Chad?

It’s just a few days until the 2012 campaign ends, and the jostling for position for 2016 begins.

Pundits on the left and the right are having a hard time understanding what Chris Christie’s praise of the President is all about.

Congressman Steve Israel has proposed an amendment to the Constitution to award 29 bonus electoral votes to the popular vote winner.

Donald Trump has yet again duped the media into giving him attention by hyping a “bombshell” that turned out to be a nothing-burger.

Like the men who came before him, Barack Obama has vastly increased the powers of his office. Someone should have asked him about that last night.

The President has yet to tell us what he would do with a Second Term.

Virginia went Republican in every presidential contest from 1968 to 2004. It’s likely to vote for Barack Obama again five weeks from now.

The Presidency costs taxpayers a lot of money, but that’s been true for many, many years now.

Understanding public opinion is tricky.

Romney supporters seem to want to paint Obama as Carter. This is unlikely to help.

Ann Romney dodged questions from a reporter seeking her personal opinions on hot-button social issues. Good for her.

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

Lindsey Graham: “We’re not generating enough angry white guys to stay in business for the long term.”

It’s official.

Mark Levin provides the latest example.

Brookings Institute scholar William Galston says election night might end early this year even if the race remains tight.

We have met the enemy, and it’s most likely us.

Dan Balz summarizes what has been “A most poisonous campaign” and is likely to get much worse before it gets over.

There’s a large group of people out there that like the President, but they’re probably not going to vote.

Victor Davis Hanson thinks President Obama plans to win the back the White House by alienating the white man.

There’s little evidence that Vice-Presidential picks have as big an impact on elections as pundits seem to think.