Outside the Beltway

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.

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.