Outside the Beltway

The GOP still hasn’t dealt with the legacy of George W. Bush.

6% of Ohio voters think Mitt Romney deserves more credit than the commander-in-chief for killing Osama bin Laden.

For some reason, Paul Ryan decided to talk about school prayer this weekend.

Jimmy Carter’s ex-presidency has lasted the equivalent of 26 Iranian hostage crises.

Over the weekend, Mitt Romney was sounding more like Rick Santorum than himself.

Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan are refusing to provide significant details about their tax plan. That’s a mistake.

Based on its recently passed platform, the Democratic Party has given up any pretense of putting civil liberties ahead of “national security.”

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

The recent;y concluded party conventions are further evidence that the events have largely outlived their usefulness.

The 2012 campaign is revealing once again that many conservatives have a view of President Obama not shared by the public at large.

Ann Romney dodged questions from a reporter seeking her personal opinions on hot-button social issues. Good for her.

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

When it comes to issues like medical marijuana, Mitt Romney and Barack Obama are reading from the same playbook.

Another bad jobs report threatens to undermine whatever good will the President had coming off the Democratic National Convention.

President Obama didn’t blow the doors off the Time Warner Cable Arena last night, but he didn’t need to.

The President and his supporters say that Congressional Republicans will temper their rhetoric in a second Obama term. Don’t count on it.

Another platform controversy?

Last night, Bill Clinton hit one out of the park for the President Of The United States.

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.”

Depending on what time you watched any of last night’s proceedings in Charlotte, you got a very different experience.

Some unpleasant news for the Democrats in a new poll.

Do fiscal conservatives realize they’re being sold a bill of goods?

Obama heads into his convention in a good position, but with several potential pitfalls in his path.

President Obama says he’s a huge Clint Eastwood fan and wasn’t offended by his performance at the RNC.

The Obama campaign clearly does not want Americans to consider whether they are better off now than they were four years ago.

So far, there’s very little movement in the polls for Governor Romney.

In a radio interview last week, Paul Ryan claimed to have run a sub-3 hour marathon. He did no such thing.

Mitt Romney left one crucial piece out of his speech last night.

Not surprisingly, Romney campaigns staffers don’t seem to want to take responsibility for Clint Eastwood’s performance last night.

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