Outside the Beltway

College football coaching salaries jumped 35 percent last year and 55 percent in the last six.

Within an hour last evening, I passed along and retracted two breaking news stories on Twitter.

This year’s Iowa Caucuses stand as Exhibit A for an argument against Iowa being first in the nation.

The polls are open in the South Carolina.

Mitt Romney has stumbled this week, and may pay for it tomorrow, but he’s still the only candidate with a realistic chance to win the Republican nomination.

It was another good night for Newt Gingrich in Charleston last night.

We won’t have Rick Perry to kick around anymore.

The race in South Carolina is going down to the wire.

Once again, Ron Paul showed last night why he could never win the Republican nomination.

Mitt Romney’s rivals scored a few hits on him last night, but nothing that’s likely to make a difference.

Republicans are rallying behind their eventual nominee.

150-plus evangelical leaders are trying to derail the Romney Express. They’re going to get run over.

Things are tightening up among the Republican candidates in the Palmetto State.

Regardless of what happens in South Carolina, Mitt Romney seems to be going for a final knockout punch in Florida.

Last night was the high point of Ron Paul’s 2012 campaign for the Presidency.

Jon Huntsman put on a brave face last night, but he’s really got nowhere to go from here.

A good night for Romney, a surprising showing for Ron Paul, and the first steps toward the end of the race for the Republican nomination.

There’s no perfect system for choosing a champion but we can do better than this.

Can anyone bring the primary debate schedule under control?

Are carbon emissions saving us all from a cold, cold fate?

Ten hours later, the candidates seemed more combative than they had been the night before.

Looking back at the Electoral College results of the modern era–and ahead to November.

If you’re running low on cash, keeping it low-key in a state you can’t win sometimes make sense.

When candidates start talking about focusing on post-IA/NH primaries, they are in trouble.

So, what’s next?

The Panthers rookie is having a historic season. Were doubts that he could succeed colored by race?

The constant drumbeat of not-really-news stories out of insignificant little Iowa will soon be behind us.

Right now, Iowa is all about Mitt Romney, Ron Paul, and a bunch of also-rans.

Ron Paul is doing well right now solely because of the unique characteristics of Iowa and New Hampshire.

The rules that Republicans will be playing under in 2012 are far less revolutionary than some pundits would have you believe.

One of these people will be the 2012 Republican nominee for President no matter how much you’d like to dream otherwise.

Iowa Republicans fear that a Ron Paul win on Jan. 3rd will destroy the credibility of their caucuses.

Ron Paul is rising in Iowa, which means he will soon face the scrutiny he’s avoided so far.