Outside the Beltway

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.

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

The front page of Sunday’s NYT profiled Valerie Jarrett, the power behind the throne at the Obama White House.

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

Once again, a Presidential election could be decided by the Buckeye State.

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

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.

Apple has won a huge victory in the smart phone patent wars. If the news reporting is accurate, the outcome doesn’t pass the common sense test.

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

A federal judge has ruled that poker is a game of skill and that therefore betting money on it is not gambling.

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?

Charges that the Obama administration leaked classified information about the Osama bin Laden raid for political gain are bunk.

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.

The Obama campaign has begun to respond to the addition of Paul Ryan to the Republican ticket.

Is the the 2012 Republican Presidential ticket? We’ll find out Saturday morning.

President Obama still has the advantage in the battleground states.

While you might think of Yale as an elite school, it’s business school is ranked 21st–below Michigan State’s.

Three new polls show President Obama leading in three key battleground states.

The novelist, playwright, and social critic Gore Vidal has died, aged 86.

Mitt Romney faces an uphill battle in trying to get to that magic number of 270 Electoral Votes.

As public education continues to wallow in the past, some parents are looking elsewhere for alternatives.

The Romney campaign has hurt the press corps’ feelings.

The GDP report shows the economy slowed in the second quarter, to the surprise of nobody.

There are still three months or so go. The race is incredibly tight. And, voters are starting to really dislike both candidates.

Don’t look for an effort to enact new gun laws in the wake of the Aurora shootings.

What happened in 1970 to decouple wages and productivity?

Some interesting developments in Pyongyang.

Two liberal columnists say a recent Mitt Romney ad proves he’s out of touch—and implies that he’s running a racist stealth campaign.

Mitt Romney has had a rough two weeks, but Barack Obama has to deal with a bad economy.

While the Supreme Court’s decision in Citizens United has been blamed for the massive increase in money in this year’s campaign, it really wasn’t the culprit.

The prosecutor in George Zimmernan’s case has made public “evidence” that will likely never be admitted at trial, but which could prejudice the case immensely.

Reporters covering the 2012 election are letting the campaigns control what they report to a disturbing degree.