Outside the Beltway

The Administration’s decision to stick with the meme that the Benghazi attack was about a movie becomes more puzzling.

Mitt Romney has an Ohio problem, and little time to fix it.

Whether Mitt Romney wins or loses, the GOP needs to evolve or be doomed to minority party status.

Should people be able to vote six weeks before Election Day?

Republicans will have some choices to make if President Obama is re-elected.

Some Republicans are beginning to ponder what might happen to their party if Mitt Romney loses in 2012.

It’s looking less likely that the GOP will be able to gain control of the Senate.

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.

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.