Outside the Beltway

House Speaker John Boehner has purged the body’s key financial committees of members of his caucus that didn’t toe the line.

In “Eyes on the Prize,” Chuck Culpepper looks at Saban’s first season as a head coach, with Toledo, way back in 1989-90. It seems that Nick Saban has been Nick Saban for a very long time.

Was Rick Perry the worst candidate to run in the 2012 cycle? It certainly appears so.

There’s been a bit of buzz of late about the fact that people in several states have filed petitions to secede from the Union. There shouldn’t be.

Posting pictures of your ballot to Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram is a crime in some parts of America.

The 2012 Election promises to be close in the Popular Voter, but President Obama still retains an Electoral College advantage.

The OTB gang give their best guess at the outcome of the 2012 presidential contest.

Utility crews from Alabama traveled to New Jersey to help get the power back on. They were turned away on account of not being unionized.

Making note of some of the predictions and such as we approach November 6th.

Mitt Romney has ground to make up if he’s going to catch the President and there’s not much time left to do it.

A week out from the election, President Obama is a heavy favorite to win re-election. But the major press continues to pretend otherwise.

We could be headed for another extremely close election where the Electoral Vote and the Popular Vote disagree with each other.

Some interesting movement in early post-debate polling.

Mitt Romney continues to benefit from the first Presidential Debate, but will that last past the second debate?

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

The Pew poll is no longer an outlier but the start of a trend.

Expectations are high for Paul Ryan heading in to Thursday’s Vice-Presidential debate. That’s not necessarily a good thing.

Mitt Romney has gotten a bump in the polls from Wednesday debate, but it’s still too early to say if it means anything.

Within minutes after today’s Jobs Report was released, the conspiracy theorists began to come forward.

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

In order to win, Mitt Romney needs the support of a large segment of the 47% of the populace he wrote off back in May.

The Libertarian Party’s Presidential candidate could prove decisive in determining who wins the Electoral College.

If the first round of post-convention polling is correct, President Obama may be pulling away from Mitt Romney.

As the final stretch of the campaign begins in earnest, Mitt Romney faces a very difficult task.

A POLITICO analysis finds that “Obama and his top campaign aides have engaged far more frequently in character attacks and personal insults than the Romney campaign.”

I give it a C+/B- (adequate, passing, nothing exceptional).

Once again, a Presidential election could be decided by the Buckeye State.

Unless something changes, Obama remains the odds-on favorite to win.

The Romney Campaign is reportedly planning a more aggressive campaign against the President for the fall.

Mitt Romney says his joke that “No one’s ever asked to see my birth certificate” wasn’t a swipe at the president and once again declared “There’s no question about where [Obama] was born.”

A pre-Convention look at the Electoral College map finds Mitt Romney in the same tight spot he’s been in for months now.

Heading into the party conventions, the Presidential race is as close as ever.

National Republicans aren’t at all thrilled with Todd Akin right now.

The weird tale of Thad McCotter’s nominating petitions just got a heck of a lot weirder.

No, Barack Obama is not going to dump Joe Biden before the Democratic Convention.

President Obama still has the advantage in the battleground states.