Outside the Beltway

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.

Antonin Scalia says “The only question in Bush v. Gore was whether the presidency would be decided by the Florida Supreme Court or the United States Supreme Court.”

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

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

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

Electing Romney hardly means repeal of the PPACA, even if he will make it sound that way.

From one Nobel Peace Prize winner to another.

It’s a wonder the Constitution gets followed at all.

Issa, Holder, and a little Madison.

Mitt Romney faces the same resistance to the idea of a Mormon President that his father did when he ran for President four decades ago.

Is there any legal merit to the Administration’s invocation of Executive Privilege?

Jeffrey Goldberg asks, “What if Mitt Romney were Jewish?”

Neil Munro acted like a jerk, but Barack Obama needs to be more open to questions than he has been.

A new ruling from Egypt’s highest court has set in motion a chain of events that could end very badly.

The President’s Cabinet is less a Team Of Rivals and more a Team Of Managers.

Mitt Romney thinks prospective Presidents should be required to have business experience.

The president has come a long way from his days as a “liberal law professor who campaigned against the Iraq war.”

States actually have constitutional authority over the selection of electors, not of the president.

The Oval Office is nothing like a corporate boardroom.

Optimism sells. Someone should remind the GOP of this fact.

Another bizarre conservative rant about the President.

Phony wars on Stay At Home Moms, dogs, and Osama bin Laden. The Obama campaign is pointing at the shiny object, and the right is falling for it.

According to some historians, a President isn’t truly great unless he involves America in a bloody and destructive war.

Newt Gingrich is still getting Secret Service protection at an estimated cost to taxpayers of $44,000 a day.

What would have happened if Sarah Palin had decided to run for the Republican nomination this year?

Would Rick Santorum be the frontrunner for the 2016 GOP nomination? Not necessarily.

Nominating Rick Santorum may be the best things Republicans could do to save their party, but not for the reasons Santorum thinks.

It’s the beginning of the end for Newt Gingrich, but it’s unlikely he’ll recognize that fact.