Outside the Beltway

It may not be the one thing that costs him election, but Mitt Romney’s remarks about the “47 percent” are still a problem for his campaign.

The battle over Wisconsin’s public sector union reform continues.

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

If the United States and Egypt were Facebook friends, their relationship status would be “It’s Complicated.”

Mitt Romney’s foreign policy weaknesses are starting to become apparent.

A new round of polling has Obama in the lead and shows reasons why Romney’s supporters should be concerned, but it’s unclear how long any of this will last.

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

Jimmy Carter’s ex-presidency has lasted the equivalent of 26 Iranian hostage crises.

An attack on Iran’s nuclear program would be far more complicated than a one-off attack.

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

The 2012 campaign is revealing once again that many conservatives have a view of President Obama not shared by the public at large.

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 clear victory for the Obama campaign in an Ohio Court, but will it stand on appeal?

Over two days of speakers, not a single Republican has mentioned the Tea Party.

A legal setback for the Texas Voter ID law, but not much of a political setback for Voter ID laws in general.

I question the timing of the Republican Convention.

It’s official.

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

Mitt Romney’s forces won a rules change that will allow future nominees to have more say over their conventions. While this strikes me as a no-brainer, some conservative activists are up in arms.

As its convention begins, one has to wonder what has happened to the Republican Party.

The GOP is set to approve rules changes that will impact the 2016 primaries, and beyond. They’re a good start.

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

American politics has been reduced to a charade where all people do is yell at each other.

Wherein a National Review piece leads me to think I am the OTB alpha blogger.

Congress and the American people have a choice to make between two not very palatable options.

Maybe the real problem this year isn’t that the campaign is unduly nasty, but that it’s incredibly petty.

National Republicans aren’t at all thrilled with Todd Akin right now.

Whether or not it’s proper to call the FRC a “hate group,” the persecution complex being displayed in the wake of Tuesday’s shooting is absurd.

We have met the enemy, and it’s most likely us.

The weird tale of Thad McCotter’s nominating petitions just got a heck of a lot weirder.

At some point, however, using the bad actions of the past to justify worse actions in the present has to stop.

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

A victory for the proponents of Voter ID Laws in Pennsylvania.

Both campaigns seem to be focusing on an argument that the voters don’t want to hear.

Mitt Romney has effectively rebooted his campaign by picking Paul Ryan, but he’s also handed the President a powerful weapon.

A Federal case in Virginia is testing the boundaries of what constitutes protected speech in the digital age.

In my adult memory, the American South was a one-party Democratic region for all but presidential elections. Aside from minority set-aside districts, the reversal is near complete.

President Obama still has the advantage in the battleground states.

Mitt Romney and other top Republicans are not taking part in the latest round of the culture war debate over same-sex marriage, for good reason.

The Obama campaign is challenging an Ohio law that gives members of the military three extra days to vote. They have a very persuasive argument.