Outside the Beltway

The nation’s capitol is closed in anticipation of Hurricane Sandy. But the Supreme Court will be reporting for duty.

Equating opposition to the President with racism is absurd.

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

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

Newspaper endorsements are getting a lot of attention in the closing days of the campaign, but do they really matter?

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.

Florida’s new education policy essentially assumes that minority students cannot do as well as their peers. That’s a mistake.

Once again, the Obama campaign appears to have an advantage among people who have voted already or will be voting before Election Day.

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

The Presidential race seems to be returning to the state it was in before the political conventions.

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.

A victory for advocates of Voter ID laws in a Washington, D.C. Federal Court.

One pollster has called three battleground states 27 days early.

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

Republican problems among Latino voters could have an influence on several close races this year.

Mitt Romney is once again making completely false claims about the status of the United States Navy.

The Pew poll is no longer an outlier but the start of a trend.

Yet another in a long line of critiques of the electoral college.

Mitt Romney has gotten a bump in the polls from Wednesday debate, but it’s still too early to say if it means anything.

Another legal victory for the Obama campaign in Ohio.

Within minutes after today’s Jobs Report was released, the conspiracy theorists began to come forward.

Too little, too late?

Before last night, Romney was toast and Republicans were demoralized; now, there’s a glimmer of hope.

For no apparent reason, the presidential race is tightening ahead of tonight’s first debate, according to two reputable national polls.

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

A wonderfully descriptive story in the New York Times Style section that’s almost surely mere anecdote being touted as trend.

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?