Outside the Beltway

Just as we saw in 2008, the conservative base doesn’t want to hear their nominee saying that the President is a basically decent man.

Republicans will have some choices to make if President Obama is re-elected.

Understanding public opinion is tricky.

Some Republicans are beginning to ponder what might happen to their party if Mitt Romney loses in 2012.

Republicans think they found the smoking gun of the 2012 election. They’re kidding themselves.

It’s still possible for Mitt Romney to win this election, but is it probable?

It may not be the one thing that costs him election, but Mitt Romney’s remarks about the “47 percent” are still a problem for his campaign.

The Romney campaign infighting is becoming public.

The Romney campaign is doubling down on bizarre foreign policy pronouncements.

Romney supporters seem to want to paint Obama as Carter. This is unlikely to help.

Ronald Reagan was leading Jimmy Carter long before the two men met in Cleveland on October 28th, 1980.

Three new state polls show that Mitt Romney’s path to victory continues to narrow.

The Libertarian Party’s Presidential candidate could prove decisive in determining who wins the Electoral College.

The 9/11 attacks and our response to them changed America, and not for the better.

The GOP still hasn’t dealt with the legacy of George W. Bush.

Jimmy Carter’s ex-presidency has lasted the equivalent of 26 Iranian hostage crises.

Ann Romney dodged questions from a reporter seeking her personal opinions on hot-button social issues. Good for her.

The President and his supporters say that Congressional Republicans will temper their rhetoric in a second Obama term. Don’t count on it.

The front page of Sunday’s NYT profiled Valerie Jarrett, the power behind the throne at the Obama White House.

The Obama campaign clearly does not want Americans to consider whether they are better off now than they were four years ago.

Lindsey Graham: “We’re not generating enough angry white guys to stay in business for the long term.”

Jeb Bush continues to speak the truth on the GOP’s position on immigration issues. Sadly, his fellow Republicans aren’t listening.

It’s official.

The political convention we know is a 19th Century relic. It’s time to modernize it and make it a lot shorter.

Mark Levin provides the latest example.

Brookings Institute scholar William Galston says election night might end early this year even if the race remains tight.

To much fanfare, President Obama announced a shift in Afghan War policy in December 2009. There’s little evidence it’s worked.

One of these men is going to his party’s convention, the other is not. The reason why is rather obvious.

The quadrennial political conventions have become, long, boring, tedious, and largely predetermined. It’s time to shake things up by making them a lot shorter.

We have met the enemy, and it’s most likely us.

Dan Balz summarizes what has been “A most poisonous campaign” and is likely to get much worse before it gets over.

Yesterday it became clear that the Presidential campaign is headed into the mud.

There’s a large group of people out there that like the President, but they’re probably not going to vote.

Victor Davis Hanson thinks President Obama plans to win the back the White House by alienating the white man.

There’s little evidence that Vice-Presidential picks have as big an impact on elections as pundits seem to think.

There is much to critique in Washington, but the nexus of the governance problem at the moment is the GOP.

For the first time in 80 years, there are no veterans on the major party Presidential tickets.

The recent call by many on the right for Mitt Romney to select Paul Ryan as his running mate is puzzling.

Once again, people are demanding to see Barack Obama’s college transcripts for no good reason.