Outside the Beltway

If the Romney campaign looked shocked on Election Night, that’s because they didn’t believe the polls either.

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

Wherein I get a bit petty (but to make a point and, maybe just because it amuses me).

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.

Could Romney win Ohio by ginning up Republican turnout and tamping down Democratic votes?

Utility crews from Alabama traveled to New Jersey to help get the power back on. They were turned away on account of not being unionized.

Mitt Romney has ground to make up if he’s going to catch the President and there’s not much time left to do it.

A week out from the election, President Obama is a heavy favorite to win re-election. But the major press continues to pretend otherwise.

Last night’s debate was rough and tumble, but it’s unlikely to change the state of the race.

Once again, it seems necessary to debunk some commonly believed myths about polling.

Of course, these voters are walled off from the process, so they don’t matter.

Romney’s post-debate surge is being picked up in swing state polls, but will it be enough?

A five year old “shocking” video of President Obama speaking to a group of African-American ministers proves to be not very shocking at all.

Questions about why the Obama administration pretended the attacks on our Embassy in Libya were a spontaneous reaction to a video rather than a coordinated terrorist attack are gaining steam.

The arguments of the people claiming that every single poll showing Mitt Romney is unfairly biased do not stand up to scrutiny.

Secret surveillance of American citizens has dramatically increased under the Obama Administration.

So, it’s been a quarter of a century since “Star Trek: The Next Generation” made its debut. As if I didn’t feel old already.

In order to win, Mitt Romney needs the support of a large segment of the 47% of the populace he wrote off back in May.

The President’s poll lead has shrunk, but there are still signs of trouble for Mitt Romney.

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

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

Ronald Reagan was leading Jimmy Carter long before the two men met in Cleveland on October 28th, 1980.

Senator Rand Paul suggests the GOP may want to reconsider its foreign policy aggressiveness.

Once again, a Presidential election could be decided by the Buckeye State.

The political convention we know is a 19th Century relic. It’s time to modernize it and make it a lot shorter.

A true pioneer passed away today.

The fallout from Todd Akin’s rape comments on Sunday has exposed a rift in the Republican Party.

Mitt Romney says his joke that “No one’s ever asked to see my birth certificate” wasn’t a swipe at the president and once again declared “There’s no question about where [Obama] was born.”