Outside the Beltway

The Romney/Ryan ticket has gained grown in Wisconsin and Florida, and is steady in Ohio, but they’ve got a Medicare problem.

National Review’s Kevin Williamson has some truly bizarre advice for Mitt Romney.

National Review’s Keith Williamson can’t fathom why Alpha Male Mitt Romney is having so much trouble beating Girly Man Barack Obama.

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

Congress and the American people have a choice to make between two not very palatable options.

The candidates aren’t talking about the war in Afghanistan very much, but that’s mostly because the American people don’t want them to.

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

Maybe the real problem this year isn’t that the campaign is unduly nasty, but that it’s incredibly petty.

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.

It’s been two months since the President has taken questions from the reporters who cover him.

The quadrennial political conventions have become, long, boring, tedious, and largely predetermined. It’s time to shake things up by making them a lot shorter.

John Cole takes exception to my recent summary of recent Obama campaign highlight.

At some point, however, using the bad actions of the past to justify worse actions in the present has to stop.

GOP stratgist Alex Castellanos issues a challenge.

A black ‘Democrat’ who seconded Obama’s nomination in 2008 is endorsing Romney in 2012. It’s not a big deal.

Yesterday it became clear that the Presidential campaign is headed into the mud.

A victory for the proponents of Voter ID Laws in Pennsylvania.

There’s a large group of people out there that like the President, but they’re probably not going to vote.

Despite all of the gaffes, jobs reports, and various twists and turns that so fascinate pundits, the race has remained essentially unchanged since April.

Victor Davis Hanson thinks President Obama plans to win the back the White House by alienating the white man.

Has the Romney campaign foolishly abandoned its best argument against the President?

There’s little evidence that Vice-Presidential picks have as big an impact on elections as pundits seem to think.

If a new Gallup poll is any indication, Paul Ryan was not a great pick.

Both campaigns seem to be focusing on an argument that the voters don’t want to hear.

There is much to critique in Washington, but the nexus of the governance problem at the moment is the GOP.