Outside the Beltway

The Manchin/Toomey proposal on background checks isn’t perfect, but it isn’t horrible either.

One Virginia Republican Member of Congress recently got a lesson in what going against the GOP’s hyperpartisan atmosphere feels like.

Republicans at the state level are still trying to cook the books in the Electoral College

CPAC’s organizers have decided not to invite the most popular Governor in the country.

John Karlin, an industrial psychologist for Bell Labs that you’ve probably never heard of, has died aged 94.

Ramesh Ponnuru considers “The Disgusting Consequences of Plastic-Bag Bans.”

Josh Marshall explains what it’s like to be a non-gun person in a very pro-gun culture.

Despite the push it’s likely to receive, most of President Obama’s gun control proposals will barely even see the light of day in Congress.

Are we really going to do this again? The answer appears to be yes.

For some reason, Pennsylvania’s Governor has chosen to reopen the wounds from the Jerry Sandusky scandal.

Mitt Romney’s campaign is wildly overcharging the media for the privilege over covering them.

Democrats are approaching an “Electoral College lock.” Republicans are trying to pick it.

Pennsylvania Republicans want to do the right thing for the wrong reason.

Dean “Unskewed Polls” Chambers is back, and he’s as deluded as ever.

Neither member of the Republican ticket seems to understand what really happened on Election Day.

Turning young voters into Young Republicans isn’t going to be an easy thing for the GOP to pull off.

If the Romney campaign looked shocked on Election Night, that’s because they didn’t believe the polls either.

More griping about poor analysis.

There are still votes to be counted, and the Romney campaign has yet to concede, but the race is over and Barack Obama has been re-elected.

As most rational observers expected, President Obama has carried Pennsylvania, like every Democratic nominee four the last five cycles before him.

It’s time to panic over anonymous guys in Philadelphia again, at least if you work at Fox News Channel.

The GOP’s hopes of taking over the Senate in 2012 have all but slipped away, but there is another option.

The 2012 Election promises to be close in the Popular Voter, but President Obama still retains an Electoral College advantage.

The Romney campaign doesn’t seem too confident of its path to victory.

The OTB gang give their best guess at the outcome of the 2012 presidential contest.

Making note of some of the predictions and such as we approach November 6th.

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

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

The arguments in favor of major changes in the way we elect our President are unpersuasive.

We could be headed for another extremely close election where the Electoral Vote and the Popular Vote disagree with each other.

Some interesting movement in early post-debate polling.