Outside the Beltway

Chris Christie is in the race for the Republican nomination, but it’s tough to see how he has a plausible path to relevance.

Hillary Clinton is a deeply flawed candidate who might not even make a very good President. But that doesn’t matter in the race for the Democratic Nomination, and she’s probably going to be the next President anyway.

Jeb Bush told a group of supporters that his brother is his top Middle East policy adviser. This strikes me as being a bad idea.

So far at least, there’s little evidence in the polls that Hillary Clinton has been hurt by the news reports about the financial dealings of the Clinton Foundation.

The House was set to vote on a ban on abortion after 20 weeks that never would have become law today but they pulled the bill. Conservatives are annoyed, but it was smart politics in the long run.

The GOP donor class would like the 2016 race to be short and sweet, but that’s unlikely to happen.

Early numbers seem to suggest that it depends on which state you’re looking at.

Polls continue to show that most Americans are largely tuning the midterms out.

Crisis seems to be brewing all over the world, but the American people aren’t persuaded that it’s necessary for the United States to act.

John Boehner’s latest political move is designed mostly to appease the GOP base, but it’s likely a non-starter from a legal point of view.

It might not be pretty.

After many ballyhooed glitches, 7 million Americans have signed up for ObamaCare. Now what?

For now at least, Republicans are far more enthusiastic about voting in November than Democrats. That could be decisive.

Time to start talking about lame ducks?

There’s still a week to go in Virginia’s Governor’s race, but it’s clear that this race is effectively over.

The government shutdown seems to be having an impact on the one competitive statewide race in country this year.

The race for Governor in Virginia is tightening, and Libertarian Party nominee Robert Sarvis is one of the reasons why.

Another poll shows the President’s poll numbers dipping.

Virginia’s voters really don’t seem to like their choices for Governor.

The GOP has a serious image problem.

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

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

Last night’s debate was rough and tumble, but it’s unlikely to change the state of the race.

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

The biggest surprise of the Presidential race to date is the fact that Mitt Romney has lost the edge he once had on economic issues.

The Court’s 2012-2013 term begins tomorrow morning, and there are plenty of big cases on the docket.

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

Just as we saw in 2008, the conservative base doesn’t want to hear their nominee saying that the President is a basically decent man.

Whether Mitt Romney wins or loses, the GOP needs to evolve or be doomed to minority party status.

For some reason, Paul Ryan decided to talk about school prayer this weekend.

Over the weekend, Mitt Romney was sounding more like Rick Santorum than himself.

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

Last night, Bill Clinton hit one out of the park for the President Of The United States.

Depending on what time you watched any of last night’s proceedings in Charlotte, you got a very different experience.

Today’s convention activities will include the opening salvos of an attack on the President’s foreign policy. This strikes me as a mistake.