Outside the Beltway

Several Senators who voted against the Manchin/Toomey background checks bill have suffered in the polls, but it’s unclear if that matters in the long run.

The possible presidential contender has an op-ed in a rather dubious outlet.

The prospects for gun control appear to be dimming.

Kentucky Senator Rand Paul won a completely meaningless straw poll.

The Obama Administration has weighed in on the Supreme Court’s other high profile same-sex marriage case.

For the moment, Republicans appear to be blocking Chuck Hagel’s nomination to be Secretary of Defense but they don’t seem to know why they’re doing it.

American troops may now earn the fourth highest combat medal from the comfort of their desk chair.

Chuck Hagel will be confirmed, but the campaign against him tells us much about the current state of Republican foreign policy

No Labels is attempting to relaunch itself after amounting to exactly nothing in the 2012 cycle. Let me save you the trouble: They won’t matter in 2014 or 2016, either.

The Republican leadership in the House suffered a big loss tonight:.

Neither member of the Republican ticket seems to understand what really happened on Election Day.

Once again, Senate Democrats are talking about filibuster reform, but will they actually follow through?

The Democratic Party appears to have a lock on a substantial part of the Electoral College. That poses a problem for Republicans.

Republicans are trying to figure out what went wrong. Will they learn the right lessons from their loss?

The 2012 Election should be a warning to the GOP that it needs to open itself up to minority groups, especially Latinos.

There are still votes to be counted, and the Romney campaign has yet to concede, but the race is over and Barack Obama has been re-elected.

Posting pictures of your ballot to Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram is a crime in some parts of America.

The GOP’s hopes of taking over the Senate in 2012 have all but slipped away, but there is another option.

The Romney campaign doesn’t seem too confident of its path to victory.

Republicans are going to get trounced among Latino voters tomorrow, and they only have themselves to blame.

OTB bloggers give their best guesses on the House and Senate races.

The OTB gang give their best guess at the outcome of the 2012 presidential contest.

A week out from the election, President Obama is a heavy favorite to win re-election. But the major press continues to pretend otherwise.

With sixteen days to go, the race for President is tied.

We could be headed for another extremely close election where the Electoral Vote and the Popular Vote disagree with each other.

Once again, the Keystone State is teasing the GOP.

Mitt Romney continues to benefit from the first Presidential Debate, but will that last past the second debate?

Republican problems among Latino voters could have an influence on several close races this year.

The Pew poll is no longer an outlier but the start of a trend.

Mitt Romney has gotten a bump in the polls from Wednesday debate, but it’s still too early to say if it means anything.

Both campaigns are trying to set the stage for Wednesday’s debate.