Outside the Beltway

A new Iowa polls shows Rick Santorum gaining support. Or does it?

Gary Johnson’s quest is quixotic, but interesting nonetheless.

So far, Iowa voters don’t seem to be bothered by the Ron Paul newsletters.

Rick Perry is seeking Court intervention to get on the Virginia ballot. He isn’t likely to get very far.

New video plus a basic primer on Ron Paul’s newsletter situation.

Newt Gingrich joins Rick Perry in having had his application to be on the Virginia Republican primary ballot disqualified. That leaves Mitt Romney and Ron Paul as the only candidates on the ballot.

Ron Paul doesn’t want to talk about his newsletters now, but he was pretty talkative 15 years ago.

A comment on the commentariat.

Some Republicans are starting to realize just how badly the House GOP has messed up this time.

Don’t look now but President Obama’s approval ratings are closing in on levels that point to re-election.

Newt Gingrich has fallen into a statistical tie with Mitt Romney in the latest Gallup poll, mirroring his decline in other recent surveys.

Should Ron Paul find his currently upward trajectory to continue he will find himself facing greater media (and opposition) scrutiny.

Proving yet again that the plural of anecdote is not data.

Christiane Amanpour, who’s losing audience share for ABC’s “This Week” Sunday show, may be on her way back to CNN.

In a desperate bid to save a floundering campaign, Rick Perry is willing to sacrifice important freedoms.

Herman Cain will announce his future campaign plans this afternoon but, in some sense, it doesn’t matter what he decides to do.

Is the Cain Train finally running out of steam?

Another allegation of sexual wrongdoing for Herman Cain.

It was a good day for Newt Gingrich, but will it matter in the end?

I liveblogged and tweeted my instant, mostly snarky, reaction to the CNN foreign policy debate. Here are some more fully formed thoughts.

I’ll be liveblogging tonight’s Republican national security debate over at RealClearWorld along with a solid team of foreign policy analyst

Newt Gingrich, Republican frontrunner. Four words most people never thought they’d see together.

Mitt Romney’s first television ad is built around a Barack Obama quote that has been cropped so that he’s saying the opposite of what he actually said.

“Democratic” pollsters Pat Caddell and Doug Schoen argue that President Obama should decline to run for re-election.

A new poll appears to show Newt Gingrich surging in New Hampshire, but there are several caveats to take into account.

Gary Johnson is right to be upset that he’s been excluded from debates, but he shouldn’t get the government involved.

New York Police dealt a major blow to Occupy Wall Street overnight.

Meet Newton Leroy Gingrich, the new “Not Romney.”

Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou will resign after the makeup of the nation’s new coalition government is decided

What do this people want? Can’t you read the signs?

Mitt Romney played it safe on a controversial issue again.

Should we be outraged over the manner in which Muammar Gaddafi died? I’m not losing any sleep over it.

Herman Cain’s comments about abortion could pose a problem for him with social conservatives.

The BBC is reporting that rebels claim to have captured the ousted leader of Libya.