Outside the Beltway

So, you thought the people running the Iowa Caucuses, who had to count something like seven votes and yet declared the wrong winner, had egg on their face. Well, their buddies in Maine have upped the ante.

One analyst sees a way that the current GOP race could indeed lead to a brokered convention.

Rick Santorum swept three states that are off the media radar screen. Will it revive his campaign?

Romney continues to roll up decisive victories while Gingrich gets increasingly bitter and nasty.

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

Things aren’t all sunshine and roses for the Obama 2012 campaign.

Barney Frank is marrying a dude, further proving just how gay he is.

As the season changes, the Occupy Wall Street movement seems destined to peter out.

Some Northeastern Senators want to make selling fake maple syrup a federal offense.

A book could be written on this subject, but let me suggest the following as a good place to start

Of the institutions designed by the Framers, the electoral college is the one that deserves the least amount of defense if one’s defense is predicated on assumptions of the genius of said framers.

Allocating Electoral Votes by Congressional District is an idea whose time has come.

Republicans have a plan to wrest half of the Keystone State’s electors from Obama.

College towns and lily white enclaves top the list of best educated cities.

51.5 percent of Americans disapprove of President Obama’s job performance. It’s still his race to lose.

Is the GOP race really down to just two men at this point?

President Obama is back on Martha’ Vineyard for a ten-day vacation. The usual suspects are upset.

In the 80’s it was yachts, today it’s private jets. The argument is the same, and it’s still without merit.

Are the new crop of GOP governors too conservative?

States are racing to put obstacles in front of voters in the name of fraud prevention.

America’s physicians are becoming more liberal in response to changing working conditions.

We’ve reached a turning point in the debate over same-sex marriage.

If you look at the Tea Party’s impact on state politics, you see it really isn’t much different from the Religious Right.

The Supreme Court will decide whether states may jail parents who fail to make child support payments without providing them an attorney.

Ron Paul is poised to win the CPAC Straw Poll. So what?

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak responded to mass unrest by cutting off his people from the outside world. Do we really want an American President to have the same power?

As the night of the State Of The Union Address approaches, the silliness in Washington has been taken up a notch.

Republicans in Idaho are talking about resurrecting the foolish and discredited idea of nullification as a weapon in the fight against ObamaCare.

Democrats are now confident that they have the votes in the Senate to repeal Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, but do they have enough time?

The GOP is being urged to avoid social issues and concentrate on reducing spending, shrinking government, and economic freedom. It’s a good idea.

Maine’s Olympia Snowe appears to be the next target of the Tea Party movement, but she is also uniquely situated to retain her seat if she chooses to.

The immediate reactions from left and right to the proposals from the Chairmen of the Debt Commission are about what you’d expect.

The odds that Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell will be repealed anytime in the near future are fairly close to zero thanks to the results of last Tuesday’s elections.

When conservatives start attacking one of their own for pointing out the obvious, you really have to wonder if they want to win.

Thomas Friedman engages in some early speculation about a serious third party presidential run. As usual, such speculation ignores the basic structures of American politics.