Outside the Beltway

It appears that the GOP still has a problem communicating with women.

Republicans are winning with voters on the issues they say they care the most about.

Some polls aren’t worth the paper they’re printed on.

As everyone anticipated, the Crimean referendum came out in favor of secession from Ukraine and union with Russia. What happens next is another question entirely.

Young voters reject political parties to a greater extent than other voters, but on policy issues they trend Democratic

Republican leaders continue to say stupid things. They may still retake the Senate in November.

Do Voter ID laws really suppress voter turnout? The evidence from at least one state doesn’t prove it.

Republicans are contending that the nearly won the Virginia Governor’s race by emphasizing Obamacare in the closing weeks, but the evidence supporting that contention is far from clear.

The race for Virginia Governor turned out to be much closer than many predicted, but that should not be a surprise.

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

Neither member of the Republican ticket seems to understand what really happened on Election Day.

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.

Turning young voters into Young Republicans isn’t going to be an easy thing for the GOP to pull off.

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

Without question, Barack Obama won the foreign policy debate in the 2012 campaign.

The 2012 Election should be a warning to the GOP that it needs to open itself up to minority groups, especially Latinos.

Mitt Romney has an advantage among self-identified Independents that makes writing him off at this point inadvisable.

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

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

Will conservatives freak out if Romney loses? That’s pretty much guaranteed.

The arguments of the people claiming that every single poll showing Mitt Romney is unfairly biased do not stand up to scrutiny.

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

Victor Davis Hanson thinks President Obama plans to win the back the White House by alienating the white man.

Three new polls show President Obama leading in three key battleground states.

A new poll reveals a stark gap between the voting preferences of married and unmarried voters, but that shouldn’t be much of a surprise.

The Republican strategy on health care in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision needs some tweaking.

The largest group of immigrants to the United States doesn’t come from south of the border anymore.

Not surprisingly, President Obama’s immigration announcement has been very well received among Latino voters.

Was money the reason Scott Walker won on Tuesday? The available evidence says no.

What lessons can we draw from the Wisconsin Recall?

None of the cable news networks did particularly well last night.

A contentious political battle that has lasted a year has come to an end.

The GOP has a serious problem with the Latino vote, and it may too late to fix it.