Outside the Beltway

Is the Romney camp snubbing Sarah Palin?

A new report on Mitt Romney’s tenure at Bain Capital seems to be much ado about nothing.

Looking back on the GOP nomination fight, it’s rather obvious that the media overplayed the idea that there was ever a real race going on.

As gas prices fall, the politics of fuel prices are changing.

Mitt Romney will likely be the first challenger able to outspend a sitting president. He’ll need it.

Byron York reacts to a CNNMoney story titled “Government wants more people on food stamps” by snarking, “And Democrats reacted angrily when Gingrich called Obama ‘food stamp president.'”

Mitt Romney believes he could take America to war without Congressional involvement.

Was money the reason Scott Walker won on Tuesday? The available evidence says no.

Bill Clinton is the latest Democrat to defend private equity, and Mitt Romney’s business record. It would appear this meme is on its last legs.

Mitt Romney continues to keep Donald Trump close. It makes no sense, but it isn’t likely to matter in the end.

The Obama campaign’s focus on Mitt Romney’s years at Bain Capital don’t seem to be working.

Mitt Romney gained some ground in Swing State polling, but that just makes clear how narrow his path to 270 Electoral Votes actually is.

The GOP has a serious problem with the Latino vote, and it may too late to fix it.

Will Twitter impact the 2012 elections? The evidence seems thin that it will.

A tough new Obama campaign ad highlights people who lost their jobs after a Bain Capital takeover–at a time Mitt Romney was not at Bain Capital.

A blog post lampooning black studies dissertations got a writer fired, setting off a controversy over the limits of free speech.

Parties are in politics primarily to win the vote of the median voter, not to join together and sing Kumbaya.

Newt Gingrich is still getting Secret Service protection at an estimated cost to taxpayers of $44,000 a day.

Further cementing his reputation as a sleaze bag, Newt Gingrich is now renting out the private information of his donors.

If Mitt Romney loses, could the Establishment GOP manage to hold back the conservative backlash? Don’t count on it.

What would have happened if Sarah Palin had decided to run for the Republican nomination this year?

We won’t have Rick Santorum to kick around anymore.

Newt Gingrich is morally and intellectually bankrupt, so perhaps it’s no surprise that his health care think tank is now fiscally bankrupt.

Far from being deterimental, there is a case to be made that SuperPACs have actually expended democracy during this election cycle.

When will Santorum bow to the inevitable?

Weeks of bizarre talk about contraception and vaginal ultrasounds has surprisingly alienated women from the Republican Party.

With the nomination pretty much inevitable, it’s time to start thinking about Romney’s running mate.

The results of Louisiana’s primary mean a lot less than the pundits will tell you they do.

Solutions come from understanding, not denial or political posturing