Outside the Beltway

In order to win, Mitt Romney needs the support of a large segment of the 47% of the populace he wrote off back in May.

The President’s poll lead has shrunk, but there are still signs of trouble for Mitt Romney.

The Occupy movement began one year ago today. It’s no surprise that it ended up being a failure.

The Romney campaign infighting is becoming public.

The Romney campaign’s critique of the President’s foreign policy record is weak, and based on bad history.

The battle over Wisconsin’s public sector union reform continues.

Several recent polls suggest that Mitt Romney is losing the advantage he had over the President on economic issues.

Ronald Reagan was leading Jimmy Carter long before the two men met in Cleveland on October 28th, 1980.

Mitt Romney still has problems with Southern whites that could pose problems for him in states like Virginia and North Carolina.

A day of protests over a film nobody has ever heard of has lead to the death of the U.S. Ambassador to Libya.

In another sign that things may not be going so well between Washington and Jerusalem, President Obama will not be meeting with Prime Minister Netanyahu when he’s in the United States.

For some reason, Paul Ryan decided to talk about school prayer this weekend.

Largely because they are resisting efforts to hold them accountable for their performance, Chicago’s teachers are leaving 400,000 students locked out of school.

Based on its recently passed platform, the Democratic Party has given up any pretense of putting civil liberties ahead of “national security.”

The Defense of Marriage Act is under challenge through a unique angle: estate taxes.

A POLITICO analysis finds that “Obama and his top campaign aides have engaged far more frequently in character attacks and personal insults than the Romney campaign.”

Obama heads into his convention in a good position, but with several potential pitfalls in his path.

General Martin Dempsey, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, sent a message to Israel last week.

Not surprisingly, Romney campaigns staffers don’t seem to want to take responsibility for Clint Eastwood’s performance last night.

After three days of buildup to a “mystery speaker,” the closing night of the Republican convention featured a rambling performance by Clint Eastwood and an empty chair.

Tonight’s convention speech is the most important speech Mitt Romney has ever given.

Security at the Republican Convention in Tampa looks more like a war zone than a political convention in a democratic republic.

Will an MRI of your brain someday be able to tell if you’re lying? And, if it can, should it be admissible in Court?

The Romney Campaign is reportedly planning a more aggressive campaign against the President for the fall.

NYT executive editor Jill Abramson is shocked that her outgoing public editor thinks her paper “virtually bleeds” a “kind of political and cultural progressivism.”

The fact that yesterday’s shooting at the Empire State Building resulted in nine civilians being injured by police bullets raises several questions.

New York’s police commissioner admits that his officers recklessly wounded 9 innocent bystanders at the Empire State Building yesterday.

The Romney/Ryan ticket has gained grown in Wisconsin and Florida, and is steady in Ohio, but they’ve got a Medicare problem.

The candidates aren’t talking about the war in Afghanistan very much, but that’s mostly because the American people don’t want them to.

When and how often must they disclose their relationship? And can we take them seriously at all?

As far as the law is concerned, your social media accounts aren’t private at all.

While Republicans talk about family values, Chuck Schumer is busy promoting them one staffer at a time.

Jon Corzine appears to be about to get a ‘Get Out Of Jail Free” card.

There’s a wee bit more to the “Progressive defended my sister’s killer” story that went viral yesterday.