Outside the Beltway

There’s been a bit of buzz of late about the fact that people in several states have filed petitions to secede from the Union. There shouldn’t be.

As we approach the fiscal cliff, there are signs that House Republicans may not be as rigid as they were the past two years.

Many conservatives are living inside of a media bubble and they’ll continue to have problems until the consciously decide to break out of it.

The David Petraeus/Paula Broadwell story gets curiouser.

Political reality says that the Bush Tax Cuts for high income earners are likely doomed in the wake of the election, but the GOP will find it very hard to switch positions on this issue.

The scandal that led to P4’s downfall has many layers, none of them flattering to the most famous American general of his generation.

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

Wherein I get a bit petty (but to make a point and, maybe just because it amuses me).

If you’re a white Southerner who gets most of his information from Fox News and Rush Limbaugh, you probably don’t know a lot of people who voted for Barack Obama.

Republicans already seem to be blaming Hurricane Sandy in the event Mitt Romney loses.

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.

Utility crews from Alabama traveled to New Jersey to help get the power back on. They were turned away on account of not being unionized.

Mayor Bloomberg has decided to hold the New York Marathon Sunday even though millions are still without power and the city infrastructure is unable to cope with normal activity.

Mitt Romney has ground to make up if he’s going to catch the President and there’s not much time left to do it.

Once again, a natural disaster has caused a common economic fallacy re resurface.

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

Under the right circumstances, it would be possible to postpone a Presidential election.

Naturally, most of us are asking: What does this mean for next Tuesday’s election.

The Mid-Atlantic region is under the gun.

There are several circumstances under which we may not know who won the 2012 election for some time after November 6th

Dean Chambers of UnSkewed fame, puts the polling debate into sharp perspective.

Congressman Steve Israel has proposed an amendment to the Constitution to award 29 bonus electoral votes to the popular vote winner.

As in 2010, Scott Rasmussen’s polling in 2012 has shown a distinct bias in favor of Republicans.