Outside the Beltway

Six states are likely to decide the 2012 election.

If you listen to the punditocracy, you’d think that there’s actually a doubt as to who the GOP nominee will be.

Voter ID laws are a good idea, but we have to be careful in how we implement them.

The race will go on after Super Tuesday, but the outcome seems ineviable

Mitt Romney’s Presidential rhetoric probably won’t appeal to the GOP base.

Disturbingly large percentages of Republicans still don’t think the President was born here.

Mitt Romney is likely to put considerable distance between himself and his opponents tomorrow.

Not surprisingly, the race in the Buckeye State is tightening.

Rick Santorum’s inability to stay away from the culture wars may have been his undoing.

Last night’s debate may have been the last one. It was also the least informative.

Rick Santorum’s stump speeches have becoming increasingly dark.

It’s looking increasingly unlikely that anyone will have the race for the nomination wrapped up any time soon.

Is Rick Santorum’s momentum unstoppable?

One analyst sees a way that the current GOP race could indeed lead to a brokered convention.

Are culture war issues about to make a comeback in the 2012 campaign?

Rick Santorum swept three states that are off the media radar screen. Will it revive his campaign?

Will the Obama Administration’s decision on contraceptive coverage by the Catholic Church have an impact in November?

Last night, South Carolina was Gingrich Country.

College football coaching salaries jumped 35 percent last year and 55 percent in the last six.

Mitt Romney has stumbled this week, and may pay for it tomorrow, but he’s still the only candidate with a realistic chance to win the Republican nomination.

Dead people almost voted in New Hampshire. Zombie democracy is nigh!

A good night for Romney, a surprising showing for Ron Paul, and the first steps toward the end of the race for the Republican nomination.

Looking back at the Electoral College results of the modern era–and ahead to November.

The GOP is at a distinct disadvantage in the political fight over President Obama’s Recess Appointment of Richard Cordray to head the CFPB.

While the President’s recess appointments are bound to set off a political dispute with the Republicans, there does not appear to be a Constitution ban against them.

So, what’s next?

The rules that Republicans will be playing under in 2012 are far less revolutionary than some pundits would have you believe.

Ron Paul is rising in Iowa, which means he will soon face the scrutiny he’s avoided so far.

Newt Gingrich is leading the GOP field, but losing to President Obama, but Republican voters don’t seem to care.

A lesson in why the topline poll numbers are often only the beginning of the puzzle.