Outside the Beltway

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.

Conservatives seem very eager for Hillary Clinton to get back on the campaign trial, but it’s not going to happen.

Last night’s preseason opener between the Dallas Cowboys and the Cincinnati Bengals was the worst sports broadcast I’ve ever seen, barring any recent Olympics.

Sarah Palin tweeted, and took the wrong side in a story that doesn’t even deserve to be a controversy.

Vice-President Biden glances into the future and sees a relatively good year for Democrats. Is he right ?

When it comes to opinions about Sarah Palin, there is a striking difference between Republicans and Americans in general.

Should outrageous people like Pamela Gellar be invited to spread their message on national television?

A common sense decision on broadcast “decency” standards was handed down by a Federal Appeals Court today.

Will LeBron James’s departure push upset Ohioans to the right ?

One year ago today, Sarah Palin resigned as Governor of Alaska after only 2 1/2 years in office.

The latest poll trends have pollster Charlie Cook thinking that the Democrats could be in for a very bad trouncing on Election Day.

Honest pollsters should deposit their raw data with the Roper Center to improve transparency.

“Endorsed by Sarah Palin” could become something that Democrats start using in negative campaign commercials.

Another poll brings bad news for the White House.

President Obama has relieved General Stanley Chrystal of command of ISAF.

General McChrystal and company spilled their guts to Rolling Stone on a road trip during which they were imbibing steadily.

The actress best known for her role as Blanche Deveraux on “The Golden Girls” has died of a stroke.