Outside the Beltway

Republicans are trying to figure out what went wrong. Will they learn the right lessons from their loss?

The impact of outside spending on the election turned out to be far less consequential than many had feared.

The GOP’s hopes of taking over the Senate in 2012 have all but slipped away, but there is another option.

OTB bloggers give their best guesses on the House and Senate races.

Yet another in a long line of critiques of the electoral college.

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

Now that he is on the ballot for good, Republicans seem to be giving Todd Akin a second look. That seems unwise.

It’s looking less likely that the GOP will be able to gain control of the Senate.

A legal setback for the Texas Voter ID law, but not much of a political setback for Voter ID laws in general.

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

Brookings Institute scholar William Galston says election night might end early this year even if the race remains tight.

The fallout from Todd Akin’s rape comments on Sunday has exposed a rift in the Republican Party.

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

Abortion and “legitimate rape” are not what the Romney campaign should be having to deal with this week.

Todd Akin says he will continue to be the Republican nominee for United States Senate from Missouri.

Ironically, the Congressman was trying to avoid actually taking a stand on the question of abortion in the case of rape.

Todd Akin says he’s staying in the race, but his party is abandoning him.

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

The Obama campaign told a few fibs in its effort to distance itself from a controversial Priorities USA ad.

A Pro-Obama SuperPAC is out with what may be the most despicable ad so far this election cycle.

Mitt Romney faces an uphill battle in trying to get to that magic number of 270 Electoral Votes.