Outside the Beltway

A new poll about the proposals coming out of the Deficit Commission makes it clear that the American public needs to grow up.

Congress will vote on extending the Bush Tax Cuts in December, and new polling shows that the public agrees with Democrats that the cuts should be limited to the “middle class.”

The NFL’s “especially mercenary” push to extract new stadia from cities–even where the stadium’s practically brand-new.

A new survey shows that political ideology leads to different television viewing habits. This shouldn’t be surprising.

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.

The two episode suspension of Keith Olbermann lends credence to the theory that the whole thing was a publicity stunt designed to support MSNBC’s assertion that its opinion shows are somehow more pure than the shows on FOX.

Keith Olbermann was reportedly suspended for failing to apologize for making political donations to Democratic candidates, but it really seems intended to serve to justify the illusion that MSNBC’s programming is not partisan.

They’ve won the elections, but Republicans still aren’t getting specific about exactly where they’d cut Federal spending.

Politico runs this morning with the shocking revelation that Keith Olbermann is a Democrat.

An NBC analysis shows Tea Party candidates winning only 5 of 10 Senate races and 40 of 130 House races, a success rate of only 32 percent.

Rasmussen polls were biased toward Republicans by 3 to 4 points. Rigged results? Or screening error?

George W. Bush’s new memoir reveals that he briefly considered replaced Dick Cheney as Vice-President before the 2004 elections. His decision not to do so reveals much about the relationship between Presidents and Vice-Presidents in modern American politics.

Too many copyright owners are stupidly invoking their rights to keep short clips off of YouTube and other services, losing potential customers in the process.

The GOP is headed for big gains on Tuesday. The only question now is how big they’re going to be.

Newsweek’s latest poll shows a boom in support for President Obama and the Democrats. It’s the only poll showing that, however.

Voters head to the polls in thirteen days, and current indications are that they’ll be handing a big victory to the Republican Party.

MSNBC.com is contemplating a name change to distinguish their brand from that of a left-leaning cable news channel.

Responding to the rant that got Rick Sanchez fired, Slate’s Brian Palmer investigates the question, “Do Jews Really Control the Media?” His short answer, “Maybe the movies, but not the news.”

Stephen J. Cannel, the man behind “The Rockford Files” and “The A-Team,” had died at 69.

A new Gallup poll shows President Obama beating Hillary Clinton in a hypothetical 2012 Democratic nomination fight. Nobody should be surprised by that.

Support for the Tea Party is at record levels but that movement does not have a coherent policy platform. Can the energy be harnessed to good use?

President Obama’s recent comments about the D.C. Public Schools should raise a few eyebrows.

White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel is leaving his job at week’s end to run for mayor of Chicago.

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.

A Vanity Fair piece imagines what John Lennon’s life would have been like had he survived an assassin’s bullet.

Let’s go to the numbers in Delaware.

Taking a short trip back in time via Instapundit’s archives reveals a September 11th post that turned out to be prophetic.

According to Gallup, there was a ten point move in the public’s preference on the Generic Congressional Ballot between last week and this week. What’s more likely is that Gallup is making a mistake somewhere.

As the mid-term elections enter their final eight weeks, there’s more bad news for Democrats.

The first ad of the 2012 presidential cycle has aired, by some dentist touting Hillary Clinton. She’s not running. Could she?

Glenn Beck’s “Restoring Honor” rally raises, yet again, the tiresome fight over crowd estimates and their political significance.

A rule allowing only white students to run for class president at a Mississippi middle school has been quickly changed after the Internet brought attention to it.

Rick Lazio is running for Governor of New York and he’s found an issue in the so-called “Ground Zero Mosque,” but it doesn’t seem to be helping him in the polls.

A year ago, President Obama was emphatically against raising taxes during the recession — even on the rich.

Shockingly, the Tea Party as a generic movement is more popular than congressional leadership. Interestingly, the Democrats are still slightly more popular than the Tea Party and the Reps are in third.

According to a new MSNBC/Wall Street Journal poll, the public that will head to the polls in November is increasingly gloomy and pessimistic.