Outside the Beltway

While no official announcements have been made, President Obama’s second term national security team appears to be taking shape.

Less than two weeks after he lost the election, the GOP is acting as if Mitt Romney never existed.

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

Mitt Romney wasn’t a perfect candidate, but he was much better than most of the 2012 Republican field.

Republicans used to dominate California. Now, they’re barely a factor in the state’s politics.

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?

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

Why I supported Mitt Romney despite his constant flip-flopping, fibbing, and fecklessness.

It’s time to panic over anonymous guys in Philadelphia again, at least if you work at Fox News Channel.

In a silly quadrennial tradition, the residents of Dixville Notch, New Hampshire voted at midnight. It was a tie.

The Romney campaign doesn’t seem too confident of its path to victory.

Republicans are going to get trounced among Latino voters tomorrow, and they only have themselves to blame.

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

President Obama seems to have given away the store when it comes to the defense sequestration cuts.

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

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

A sign at a local Exxon station seemingly blames high gasoline prices on Barack Obama.

There’s little evidence that Presidential debates can be game changers.

Don’t hate the player, hate the game (more or less, anyway).

There are signs that some Romney supporters have already decided their candidate is going to lose.

Both campaigns are trying to set the stage for Wednesday’s debate.

Questions about why the Obama administration pretended the attacks on our Embassy in Libya were a spontaneous reaction to a video rather than a coordinated terrorist attack are gaining steam.

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.

Good journalism? Or, bad ethics?

Some Republicans are beginning to ponder what might happen to their party if Mitt Romney loses in 2012.

Republicans think they found the smoking gun of the 2012 election. They’re kidding themselves.

The President’s poll lead has shrunk, but there are still signs of trouble for Mitt Romney.

Three new state polls show that Mitt Romney’s path to victory continues to narrow.

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