Outside the Beltway

The Weekly Standard is proud that Mitt Romney’s intentionally false Jeep ad was technically true.

No Labels is attempting to relaunch itself after amounting to exactly nothing in the 2012 cycle. Let me save you the trouble: They won’t matter in 2014 or 2016, either.

Does the public still care about the personal transgressions of politicians? The evidence seems to suggest they don’t.

While no official announcements have been made, President Obama’s second term national security team appears to be taking shape.

Democrats are approaching an “Electoral College lock.” Republicans are trying to pick it.

Ron Fournier details how Bill Clinton and George W. Bush taught him how to understand his son, Tyler, who has Asperger’s syndrome.

Are two-term Presidencies the new normal?

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

Judging by the record of the past decade and a half, movement conservatism has accomplished very little.

Republicans used to dominate California. Now, they’re barely a factor in the state’s politics.

The Democratic Party appears to have a lock on a substantial part of the Electoral College. That poses a problem for Republicans.

The 2012 Election should be a warning to the GOP that it needs to open itself up to minority groups, especially Latinos.

Why I supported Mitt Romney despite his constant flip-flopping, fibbing, and fecklessness.

Republicans are going to get trounced among Latino voters tomorrow, and they only have themselves to blame.

David Brooks tries to “describe what being a moderate means” in a way that most Americans would find puzzling.

Hillary Clinton doesn’t have much sympathy for her former aide’s inability to “have it all.”

Another loss in the Federal Courts for the Defense Of Marriage Act.

Romney needs a far better answer to the Bush question.

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

For all the hype, it’s unlikely that tonight’s debate will have the same impact as the October 3rd Debate.

Don’t blame the Defense Department for following a bad law.

The Presidential race seems to be returning to the state it was in before the political conventions.

Before last night, Romney was toast and Republicans were demoralized; now, there’s a glimmer of hope.

The biggest surprise of the Presidential race to date is the fact that Mitt Romney has lost the edge he once had on economic issues.

There’s little evidence that Presidential debates can be game changers.

Both campaigns are trying to set the stage for Wednesday’s debate.

Some Republicans are beginning to ponder what might happen to their party if Mitt Romney loses in 2012.

Republicans think they found the smoking gun of the 2012 election. They’re kidding themselves.

With Mitt Romney and Barack Obama basically saying the same things about foreign policy, it’s time to take a look at an alternative.

Several recent polls suggest that Mitt Romney is losing the advantage he had over the President on economic issues.

The GOP still hasn’t dealt with the legacy of George W. Bush.

Not surprisingly, a new study finds that repealing Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell has not caused any harm to the military.

If the first round of post-convention polling is correct, President Obama may be pulling away from Mitt Romney.

Shepard Fairey, the artist who turned a generic AP photo of Barack Obama into an iconic painting, got a hefty punishment for lying to government investigators.

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

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.

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.”

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