Outside the Beltway

It’s straw poll season already. First up, New Hampshire where things turned out about how you’d expect them to considering Mitt Romney lives there now.

A new book by President Reagan’s youngest son raises allegations that the former President was showing signs of Alzheimer’s Disease while still in office, and that’s led to a family feud between the two Reagan brothers.

The National Football League’s decision to postpone last night’s Eagles-Vikings game due to weather is receiving a lot of criticism, but they made the right choice.

Nearly four weeks after Election Day, Alaska’s Joe Miller still won’t concede the inevitable.

Those images on your Facebook page may come back to haunt you if you decide to run for office someday.

As impressive as Republican gains in this week’s elections were at the national level, they were even more so in state legislative races. Which means Republicans are in position to consolidate and expand upon their recent gains.

The race between Jeb Hensarling and Michelle Bachmann for Chair of the House GOP Conference is a microcosm for a battle that is likely to take place within the GOP for the next two years.

Despite votes in the 2010 contest still being counted, polls for 2012 are already pouring out. They’re largely meaningless.

Making it easier for people to vote doesn’t necessarily mean that more people will vote.

Thanks to races in as many six states that may be decided by absentee and write-in ballots, we may not know the outcome of the 2010 Elections for several weeks after Election Day.

More bad news for Democrats as a new poll shows that voters are more likely to consider them extreme than Republicans.

Will a Republican-controlled Congress bring about the third Presidential Impeachment in American history? Jonathan Chait thinks it’s virtually certain that it will, I’m not so sure.

Boston University and Northeastern have found that there is life after football. Shouldn’t most schools follow their lead?

A new study suggests that laws banning texting while driving don’t actually have any impact on accident rates.

A new projection of Congressional reapportionment shows a dramatic shift to traditionally Republican states in the South and Southwest.

While it will be difficult, the idea that Lisa Murkowski could win a write-in bid to retain her Senate seat is not at all implausible.

The Delaware GOP now has, according to Nate Silver, a 17% chance of winning the Senate seat.

Daily Kos founder Markos Moulitsas’ new book, AMERICAN TALIBAN: HOW WAR, SEX, SIN, AND POWER BIND JIHADISTS AND THE RADICAL RIGHT, continues a long tradition in political polemics.

President Obama will be giving an address to schoolkids again this year. Stay tuned for the cries of “indoctrination !”

The webmaster of a local Republican chapter linked a YouTube video that implies Democratic women are ugly.

Mitch McConnell and Al Franken provide a lesson in Senate comity.

If Minnesota Congresswoman Michelle Bachmann gets her way, the 112th Congress will feature a lot of committees “investigating” the Obama Administration.

Some Republicans in Congress are worried they won’t be able to control the future Congressmen and Senators that the Tea Party might be sending to Washington.

The Washington DC area has the nation’s highest incomes.

Did felons voting illegally put Al Franken over the top in Minnesota? Probably not.

It’s time for the Gingrich For President speculation to begin again.

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich considers himself among the top Republican prospects for the 2012 presidential election