Outside the Beltway

The voter ID issue goes on the road.

Some Republicans seem intent on repeating the mistakes of 2008.

Fox News’ Carl Cameron is reporting on a secret plot by the two most embarrassing candidates from the 2012 Republican field to team up in order to win an incredibly unlikely brokered convention.

A new poll shows the current level of GOP support in the Hispanic community.

Disturbingly large percentages of Republicans still don’t think the President was born here.

A new poll shows just how badly the GOP is doing among Hispanic voters.

The GOP has sold its soul.

Many on the right seem unwilling to condemn clearly offensive remarks by Rush Limbaugh

There’s an entire industry that profits from exploiting political controversy and division. Why do we let them get away with it?

Rick Santorum’s stump speeches have becoming increasingly dark.

A new poll shows Santorum surging ahead of Mitt Romney nationally

Was Clint Eastwood’s Chrysler ad a political message, or just a well done commercial?

The tinfoil hat crowd has made its way back into the mainstream.

Newt may challenge the winner-take-all allocation of delegates.

If Romney loses in November, it could be the start of a bitter fight insider the Republican Party.

Newt Gingrich has amazingly high unfavorables.

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.

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.

Not surprisingly, Rick Perry’s effort to get on Virginia’s primary ballot via litigation has failed

To Republicans, even thinking about engaging in diplomacy is enough to accuse the President of appeasement.

After almost a year of campaigning, it’s finally time for someone to cast a vote.

Executive summary: She’s a kook unfit to serve as dog catcher, much less leader of the free world.

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

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

“Democratic” Pollsters Pat Caddell and Doug Schoen are out with another wacky Op-Ed.

Newt Gingrich’s ideas about the role of the judiciary are very dangerous.

Newt Gingrich last night declared that he would abolish the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals.

The final candidate clash of 2011 didn’t lead to the sparring that some expected.

Ron Paul is surging in Iowa. He’s in 3rd place in the national polls and has been for most of the race. He’s not Mitt Romney.

Conservative groups are upset because a new reality show depicts Muslim-Americans as, well, normal Americans.

Except, of course, the parts he doesn’t like.

In a desperate bid to save a floundering campaign, Rick Perry is willing to sacrifice important freedoms.

Newt Gingrich’s foreign policy vision leaves much to be desired.