Outside the Beltway

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.”

A pre-Convention look at the Electoral College map finds Mitt Romney in the same tight spot he’s been in for months now.

The Romney/Ryan ticket has gained grown in Wisconsin and Florida, and is steady in Ohio, but they’ve got a Medicare problem.

A corner has ruled the death of a handcuffed man in the back of a Jonesboro, AR police cruiser was a suicide. Needless to say, questions remain.

President Obama issued a warning to Syria today over its chemical weapons stockpiles.

Yesterday it became clear that the Presidential campaign is headed into the mud.

President Obama still has the advantage in the battleground states.

Romney’s new ad on a ruling issued by HHS on welfare-to-work requirements doesn’t pass the smell test.

A Pro-Obama SuperPAC is out with what may be the most despicable ad so far this election cycle.

Three new polls show President Obama leading in three key battleground states.

Justice Scalia explains why the Supreme Court resists the idea of letting cameras into the court. He makes a persuasive case.

There are still three months or so go. The race is incredibly tight. And, voters are starting to really dislike both candidates.

Mitt Romney has had a rough two weeks, but Barack Obama has to deal with a bad economy.

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

Supreme Court watchers have been speculating since Sunday night about who might have leaked confidential court information to the press.

There’s very little evidence or logic to support the attacks coming from the right against Chief Justice Roberts.