Outside the Beltway

Once again, the frontrunners for the 2012 GOP nomination aren’t looking very good at all.

The newest WaPo/ABC News poll numbers.

Mitt Romney has hired my wife’s boss as his pollster.

One columnist argues that Sarah Palin’s response to the Arizona shootings mark the end of whatever political future she might have had. He’s probably correct.

By this point in the last presidential cycle, there were already 14 major party candidates who had publicly announced. There are zero today.

Rumors are floating that Rudy Giuliani is thinking about running for President again. All of America asks, Why?

Mitt Romney’s poll numbers in Florida have shrunk. Perhaps he needs to be on cable TV a bit more often.

New polling shows that Mitt Romney is well behind the Fox News candidates for 2012.

The internal debate in the Republican Party over the tax cut extension deal with President Obama is serving as a preview of some of the battles that may erupt during the race for the party’s nomination in 2012.

In her new book, Sarah Palin puts forward a view of the role of religion in politics that is in direct contrast with America’s own traditions.

The prospective Republican field for 2012 is dismal. Then again, it always is.

The Republican Party is united on the issues in a way it hasn’t been in a long time, but personalities threaten to tear the fragile coalition apart.

Some on the right are beginning to realize that Sarah Palin’s popularity may cause a serious problem for the GOP in 2012.

While Tim Pawlenty and John Thune get high marks from insiders, they have next to no shot at winning the 2012 Republican nomination for president.

This is a strange disconnect between Sarah Palin’s popularity within the Republican Party and her popularity with the nation as a whole. One wonders if the GOP notices, or cares.

Despite votes in the 2010 contest still being counted, polls for 2012 are already pouring out. They’re largely meaningless.

Ezra Klein argues that Sarah Palin’s Twitter account isn’t very popular. But that misses the point.

Unnamed Republican leaders are lined up to ensure that anybody but the former VP nominee is the party’s 2012 standard bearer.

If the Republicans win back Congress in November, it will be largely unearned. But that doesn’t mean that there’s no incentive for change in American politics.

Arnold Schwarzenegger predicts President Obama’s re-election. Historically, that’s the safe bet.

Once again, Mitt Romney and Sarah Palin are at the top of the field in the GOP 2012 race, but that may not last forever.

More than ever before in the past, Fox News Channel will be the exclusive medium through which many of the candidates for the 2012 Republican nomination communicate with the public. And that’s a problem.

Could Mike Pence make the leap from the House of Representatives to the White House ? It’s possible, but history and the likely GOP field in 2012 suggest it would be very difficult.

Is Sarah Palin running for President in 2012 ? It’s looking more and more likely that the answer might be yes.

Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels appears to be quietly putting together the beginnings of a campaign for President of the United States. Don’t count him out by any means.

Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels is superbly qualified for the presidency. But our system virtually assures that he won’t be a serious contender for the job.

Twenty percent of Americans still believe that Barack Obama is Muslim. Not only is it wrong, it says something rather disturbing about our country.

Ross Douthat’s latest New York Times column demonstrates an appalling misunderstanding of history in the context of immigration.

On January 3, 2008 Mike Huckabee celebrated a victory in the Iowa Caucuses, will be able to repeat that in 2012 ?

Another round of primaries last night made the playing field for November just a little bit clearer to see.

Will a debate over foreign policy tear apart the GOP ? Probably not.

The Palin and Romney camps have already started trading barbs in what could be a preview of the race for the GOP nomination in 2012.

The results of a new poll may have President Obama worrying about 2012 already.

It’s time for the Gingrich For President speculation to begin again.