Outside the Beltway

The Media Bloggers Association has filed an amicus brief against a company which exists for the sole purpose of suing bloggers.

Florida has again scheduled its primary ahead of the deadlines set by the Republican and Democratic parties.

Ron Paul is poised to win the CPAC Straw Poll. So what?

The home mortgage interest deduction benefits Democrat-voting states most! Is the fix in?

More on the strategery of civility.

Red States should gain 10 seats while Blue States should lose eight.

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

Democrats can’t stop using the F-word when talking about President Obama.

Democrats are now confident that they have the votes in the Senate to repeal Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, but do they have enough time?

At least one group of Tea Party activists seems to realize that their biggest mistake of the 2010 election cycle was backing candidates like Christine O’Donnell who turned out to be their own worst enemies.

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner held a private, off-the-record meeting in comedian Jon Stewart’s office back in April. Speculation abounds.

A longish NYT postmortem titled “Democrats Outrun by a 2-Year G.O.P. Comeback Plan” attributes Tuesday’s Republican victories to a January 2009 PowerPoint presentation. But structural factors were more important.

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.

Last night’s election results stand as a mixed verdict on the Tea party and its impact on the Republican Party.

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

The enthusiasm for Tea Party candidates likely helped the House Republican wave. But it also likely cost the GOP four Senate seats that it would otherwise have won — and thus the majority.

What would the Nevada Senate race look like if “none of the above” could actually win?

We’ve been talking about the 2010 elections since, oh, the day after the 2008 elections.   Now, it’s time for final predictions.

Sharron Angle’s attorney is charging that “Harry Reid intends to steal this election if he can’t win it outright.” She touts various “shenanigans” in a fundraising letter.

Reports of voting irregularity in precincts across the country are threatening to further undermine voter confidence in the legitimacy of election outcomes. There’s a simple solution.

The numbers coming out of the first few weeks of early voting confirms the enthusiasm gap that pollsters have been talking about for months.

Thanks to races in as many six states that may be decided by absentee and write-in ballots, we may not know the outcome of the 2010 Elections for several weeks after Election Day.

At least in Nevada, there appears to be little evidence of an enthusiasm gap between Republicans and Democrats, which is potentially good news for Harry Reid.

Being a political blogger during election season is getting to be rather infuriating, especially if all you want to do is check your email.

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

It’s looking less and less likely that the GOP will gain control of the Senate, but they’re going to come awfully close,, and that might be just as good from their point of view.

Will Digital Video Recorders kill the campaign commercial? Unfortunately, no.

Polls show the Republicans easily retaking the House but falling short in the Senate. But 2006 showed us that wave elections can produce shocking outcomes.

Sarah Palin is at the center of a divide within the GOP that could become larger even as the GOP comes closer to regaining control of Congress.

Last night’s one and only Nevada Senate Debate was an embarrassing affair all around, but it most likely sealed the electoral doom of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.

Politicians are, by definition, a bit abnormal. However, this year we seem to have more than our fair share of the truly odd.

Last night’s Delaware Senate debate was entertaining, but it’s unlikely to move the polls very much.