Outside the Beltway

Democrats are approaching an “Electoral College lock.” Republicans are trying to pick it.

Pennsylvania Republicans want to do the right thing for the wrong reason.

Seems that the answer continues to be “no.”

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

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

Mitt Romney wasn’t a perfect candidate, but he was much better than most of the 2012 Republican field.

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

Barone tells some tales to make himself feel better.

An attempt to lay down some basic groundwork for discussing this story.

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

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

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

If you’re a white Southerner who gets most of his information from Fox News and Rush Limbaugh, you probably don’t know a lot of people who voted for Barack Obama.

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

The 2012 Election promises to be close in the Popular Voter, but President Obama still retains an Electoral College advantage.

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

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

Making note of some of the predictions and such as we approach November 6th.

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

Mitt Romney has ground to make up if he’s going to catch the President and there’s not much time left to do it.

A week out from the election, President Obama is a heavy favorite to win re-election. But the major press continues to pretend otherwise.

There are several circumstances under which we may not know who won the 2012 election for some time after November 6th

Congressman Steve Israel has proposed an amendment to the Constitution to award 29 bonus electoral votes to the popular vote winner.

The arguments in favor of major changes in the way we elect our President are unpersuasive.

The candidate’s meet for one last time tonight to talk about some of the most important issues in the world.

A recent poll has Obama and Romney tied among women. Another gives Obama a 33 point edge.

No, the electoral college does not encourage the candidates to pay special attention to the small states.

With sixteen days to go, the race for President is tied.

National numbers can overstate regional preferences.

We could be headed for another extremely close election where the Electoral Vote and the Popular Vote disagree with each other.

Some interesting movement in early post-debate polling.

Mitt Romney continues to benefit from the first Presidential Debate, but will that last past the second debate?

Last night’s Vice-Presidential debate was combative, but is unlikely to have a major impact on the race for President.

Looking to Federalist 68.

Of course, these voters are walled off from the process, so they don’t matter.

Romney’s post-debate surge is being picked up in swing state polls, but will it be enough?

For the first time all cycle, Mitt Romney leads Barack Obama in the RealClearPolitics average.