Outside the Beltway

Jeffrey Goldberg asks, “What if Mitt Romney were Jewish?”

While the news media is focused on sixteen battleground states, the professionals running the Obama and Romney campaigns are focused on a much narrower list.

The Obama campaign’s focus on Mitt Romney’s years at Bain Capital don’t seem to be working.

The battle is on for control of the Senate, but whoever wins is likely to have a very slim majority.

The biggest argument against Romney winning in November is the fact that there aren’t many ways for him to get to those pesky 270 Electoral Votes.

A Federal Court rejects an effort to significantly expand the application of a law designed to target computer hacking.

Now that Rick Santorum is out of the race, what happens to his delegates?

Last night’s results ensure the race will continue to the convention.

Rick Santorum won the night, but Mitt Romney continues to win the delegate hunt.

Six states are likely to decide the 2012 election.

The race will go on after Super Tuesday, but the outcome seems ineviable

Rick Santorum’s inability to stay away from the culture wars may have been his undoing.

Mitt Romney’s campaign gives us a lesson in how not to stage a “major” economic speech.

The race appears to be tightening in The Wolverine State.

Virginia has become the latest battleground for advocates of laws that define life as being at conception.

Is Rick Santorum’s momentum unstoppable?

Once again, the face of the Republican race has changed.

If the reaction at this year’s CPAC is any indication, Mitt Romney still has some work to do to seal up his party’s base.

A new poll shows Santorum surging ahead of Mitt Romney nationally

Are the American people tuning out of politics altogether?

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?

Could things possibly get worse on Capitol Hill? Grover Norquist seems to relish the possibility.

A far-reaching decision from the Supreme Court protecting religious liberty.

So, what’s next?

Newt Gingrich gets his Civil War history very wrong.

Proving yet again that the plural of anecdote is not data.

Mitt Romney’s campaign seems have Newt Gingrich targeted.

Are America’s political parties become irrelevant?

Yet again, a state seeks to buck the primary calendar (and yet again it provides a chance to wonder why we have the nomination system we have).

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

Will 2012 be the Republican version of the 2008 race between President Obama and Hillary Clinton?

Ensuring the integrity of the voting process is a worthy goal, not evidence of discrimination.

As Hurricane Irene makes its way up the East Coast, Ron Paul says disaster relief isn’t a job for the Federal Government.

Once again, the primary scheduling race is getting ridiculous.

Perhaps understandably, the Anthony Weiner incident seems to have caused some politicians to rethink their Twitter strategy.

Two major American military installations are in serious danger. From rising water, not terrorist attacks.