Outside the Beltway

A new ground game in Iowa?

South Carolina governor Nikki Haley becomes the latest Tea Party darling to back Mitt Romney.

The final candidate clash of 2011 didn’t lead to the sparring that some expected.

Ron Paul is surging in Iowa. He’s in 3rd place in the national polls and has been for most of the race. He’s not Mitt Romney.

Signs that Newt Gingrich’s rise may be faltering.

With Gingrich surging in the polls, the pundit class has gotten out the long knives.

The former Speaker has the biggest lead of any candidate thus far in the race for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination.

Newt Gingrich is leading the GOP field, but losing to President Obama, but Republican voters don’t seem to care.

Yesterday’s encounter between Jon Huntsman and Newt Gingrich was less than it could have been.

A lesson in why the topline poll numbers are often only the beginning of the puzzle.

This time, it was Newt Gingrich who walked away unscathed from a Republican Presidential debate.

The Establishment opposition to the current frontrunner has little to do with his policy ideas.

No, some mythical candidate will not swoop in and save the day for the Republican Party.

Mitt Romney’s campaign seems have Newt Gingrich targeted.

A revealing quote and some musing on Newt’s consistency.

Newt Gingrich is looking really good in the Hawkeye State right now.

Gingrich is rising in the polls for reasons that help him in the primary race, but may hurt in a General Election.

The odds of a come back by the Texas Governor do not look good.

Stranger things have happened.

Last night’s Huckabee Presidential Forum was different, and surprisingly substantive.

We won’t have Herman Cain to kick around anymore.

Could Newt Gingrich really become the Republican nominee? Stranger things have happened.

Just a reminder: Turkey is a NATO ally.

Expect plenty of GOP infighting if President Obama is re-elected next November.

What does the Cain candidacy say about the contemporary GOP?

Could the GOP go into Tampa next August not knowing who their nominee will be? It’s possible, but not probable.

It was a good day for Newt Gingrich, but will it matter in the end?

Newt Gingrich spoke some truth on immigration last night, and that might hurt him with Republican voters.

I liveblogged and tweeted my instant, mostly snarky, reaction to the CNN foreign policy debate. Here are some more fully formed thoughts.