Outside the Beltway

The Governor of Iowa thinks the Ames Straw Poll should be ended, but he really ought to go further than that.

Dean “Unskewed Polls” Chambers is back, and he’s as deluded as ever.

Are two-term Presidencies the new normal?

Republicans need to realize that they are at a disadvantage in the upcoming negotiations regarding the Fiscal Cliff.

Republican opposition to same-sex marriage is costing it yet another demographic group.

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

Fareed Zakaria declares “America’s election process an international embarrassment.” He’s right.

Some people on the right apparently want to return to this map.

Many conservatives are living inside of a media bubble and they’ll continue to have problems until the consciously decide to break out of it.

Barone tells some tales to make himself feel better.

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

There are some expected and unexpected results in Nate Silver’s review of pollster accuracy in 2012.

The Republican Party needs more than outreach to Hispanics to become a viable national party again.

The Supreme Court has agreed to take on another big case.

Once again, Senate Democrats are talking about filibuster reform, but will they actually follow through?

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

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

More griping about poor analysis.

Republicans are trying to figure out what went wrong. Will they learn the right lessons from their loss?

The impact of outside spending on the election turned out to be far less consequential than many had feared.

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

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.

Will Ohio’s Provisional Ballot’s be 2012’s version of the Hanging Chad?

Republicans already seem to be blaming Hurricane Sandy in the event Mitt Romney loses.

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

OTB bloggers give their best guesses on the House and Senate races.

The analyst actually wants to understand and be correct far more than he or she wants their preferences to prevail in the analysis

It’s just a few days until the 2012 campaign ends, and the jostling for position for 2016 begins.

The OTB gang give their best guess at the outcome of the 2012 presidential contest.

How Obama can have a 75 percent chance of winning an election despite being essentially tied in the polls: