Outside the Beltway

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.

Is George Bush to blame for a weak Republican field almost four years after he left office? Not entirely.

Mitt Romney is taking heat for his role at Bain Capital. He shouldn’t.

When did serving your country become something political opponents attacked you for?

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

Watching last night’s debate, you would have been surprised to learn that Mitt Romney has any real opponents in the Republican race.

Jon Huntsman has gambled everything on New Hampshire. It probably won’t pay off.

There seems to be very little stopping a big night for Mitt Romney next Tuesday.

Since the adoption of the current rules for delegate allocations only twice has either party nominated someone who did not win either IA or NH.

Heading into the last day of campaigning, the race in Iowa is too close to call.

So, what’s next?

For a guy who says he dislikes “activist judges,” Rick Perry sure wants a certain Federal Judge in Virginia to be an activist.

Yet another clue about what’s going on in the Hawkeye State.

If you’re going to take public money, “religious liberty” is not an excuse to fail to comply with the law.

Republicans are learning that their hard line on immigration comes with a political price.

A new Iowa polls shows Rick Santorum gaining support. Or does it?

Understanding the state of the GOP field requires recognizing that President Obama is actually pretty moderate.

Becoming a Member of Congress can be a very lucrative career.

Newt Gingrich joins Rick Perry in having had his application to be on the Virginia Republican primary ballot disqualified. That leaves Mitt Romney and Ron Paul as the only candidates on the ballot.

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

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

The former Speaker has the biggest lead of any candidate thus far in the race for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination.

Newt Gingrich is leading the GOP field, but losing to President Obama, but Republican voters don’t seem to care.

This time, it was Newt Gingrich who walked away unscathed from a Republican Presidential debate.

Newt Gingrich is looking really good in the Hawkeye State right now.

Last night’s Huckabee Presidential Forum was different, and surprisingly substantive.

It was a good day for Newt Gingrich, but will it matter in the end?

Newt Gingrich spoke some truth on immigration last night, and that might hurt him with Republican voters.

I liveblogged and tweeted my instant, mostly snarky, reaction to the CNN foreign policy debate. Here are some more fully formed thoughts.

Newt Gingrich, Republican frontrunner. Four words most people never thought they’d see together.

Mitt Romney’s first television ad is built around a Barack Obama quote that has been cropped so that he’s saying the opposite of what he actually said.

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