Outside the Beltway

The truth behind today’s unemployment numbers.

Harvard’s pet conservative offers a critique of the Democratic Party that reads like something from the OTB comments section.

The Republican Party needs a new message on foreign policy that is true to the conservative principles of the base and yet has a broad appeal to the American public.

Not as much learning going on as one might like, to be honest.

A quick post on a pet peeve.

Less than two weeks after he lost the election, the GOP is acting as if Mitt Romney never existed.

Believing the maker/taker dichotomy.

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

Barone tells some tales to make himself feel better.

Obama thinks he has a mandate to raise taxes on high earners. Republicans think they have a mandate to stop him.

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

Republicans are starting to talk about immigration reform, but do they really mean it?

I just came across Peggy Noonan’s pre-election column. It is quite illustrative.

Without question, Barack Obama won the foreign policy debate in the 2012 campaign.

The ink is barely dry on Barack Obama’s victory and some conservatives are already focusing blame on the Governor of New Jersey.

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.

Will Ohio’s Provisional Ballot’s be 2012’s version of the Hanging Chad?

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

Could Romney win Ohio by ginning up Republican turnout and tamping down Democratic votes?

It’s just a few days until the 2012 campaign ends, and the jostling for position for 2016 begins.

Pundits on the left and the right are having a hard time understanding what Chris Christie’s praise of the President is all about.

A week out from the election, President Obama is a heavy favorite to win re-election. But the major press continues to pretend otherwise.

There are several circumstances under which we may not know who won the 2012 election for some time after November 6th

Congressman Steve Israel has proposed an amendment to the Constitution to award 29 bonus electoral votes to the popular vote winner.

Donald Trump has yet again duped the media into giving him attention by hyping a “bombshell” that turned out to be a nothing-burger.

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

Younger voters are starting to become as cynical as the rest of us.

All eyes on Northern Virginia.

Hillary Clinton doesn’t have much sympathy for her former aide’s inability to “have it all.”

What’s the truth about last night’s debate exchange about Libya?

Last night’s debate was rough and tumble, but it’s unlikely to change the state of the race.

The President has yet to tell us what he would do with a Second Term.

Last night’s Vice-Presidential debate was combative, but is unlikely to have a major impact on the race for President.

Will conservatives freak out if Romney loses? That’s pretty much guaranteed.

It’s no wonder partisans can’t agree with each other when they can’t even agree what the facts are.

The biggest surprise of the Presidential race to date is the fact that Mitt Romney has lost the edge he once had on economic issues.

Virginia went Republican in every presidential contest from 1968 to 2004. It’s likely to vote for Barack Obama again five weeks from now.

There’s little evidence that Presidential debates can be game changers.

The Presidency costs taxpayers a lot of money, but that’s been true for many, many years now.

Don’t hate the player, hate the game (more or less, anyway).

Our War On Drugs is having a disastrous impact on our neighbors to the south, and they’re starting to notice.