Outside the Beltway

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

The NCAA more than lived up to the hype of “unprecedented” sanctions.

Another study shows that voter ID laws negatively affect a lot of Americans.

Carbon emissions in the U.S. have declined just as use of natural gas in electricity production has increased. That’s no coincidence.

Stephen Green projects the best case and minimal winning scenarios for Obama and Romney.

The Romney campaign has apparently decided to be more aggressive in its attacks on the President, which poses serious risks for the campaign.

By failing to respond adequately, Mitt Romney is letting his opponent define him for the voters. That could hurt him greatly in November.

Once again people are saying that 2012 is an election year akin to 1860 or 1932. Once again, they are wrong.

The cover-up at Penn State was, if anything, worse than we thought,.

The number of Pennsylvania voters without required photo IDs exceeds Obama’s 2008 margin of victory.

Mitt Romney and Barack Obama traded barbs over the June jobs report, but neither one seems to have the answer to our problems.

Jerry Sandusky is in jail, but the evidence of the crimes that were committed to protect him continues to mount.

Three swing state poll results should be raising some real concerns among Team Romney today.

The election is about the economy. The economy is awful. Yet the incumbent still holds a slight lead.

Justice.

While the news media is focused on sixteen battleground states, the professionals running the Obama and Romney campaigns are focused on a much narrower list.

Alan Simpson is imparting wisdom to his fellow Republicans. I doubt they will listen.

Is President Obama’s announcement on same-sex marriage helping to create a change in opinion on the issue among African-Americans?

The “Clinton-Biden Switcheroo” Scenario is the pundit’s fantasy that will not die.

Eduardo Saverin has become a political whipping boy.

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.

Mitt Romney wimped out. Again.

Obama has an advantage in what is likely to be one of the most important states in November’s election, but the race is far from over.

The argument that Barack Obama hasn’t been vetted is simply absurd.

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

We need a lot less fake empathy in politics.

We may have Rick Santorum to deal with in 2016.

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

Mitt Romney, who has law and business degrees from Harvard, is criticizing President Obama for having a law degree from Harvard.

The race is over, Rick Santorum just won’t admit it.

When will Santorum bow to the inevitable?

This week’s hearings in the Supreme Court caught many proponents of the Affordable Care Act off guard.