Outside the Beltway

Former RNC Chair Ed Gillespie is challenging incumbent Senator Mark Warner for his Senate seat.

No person has been elected Senator in a second state after serving as Senator in another, but Scott Brown seems set to give it a try.

Republicans have some good ideas about overhauling how they pick a nominee. Unfortunately, it’s hard to see how most of them can be enforced.

Accusations of blame are already being tossed around about why Republicans lost in Virginia, and they mirror a broader debate in the Republican Party nationally.

Chris Christie did as well as expected last night, but that’s just the beginning.

The Supreme Court heard argument in a major campaign finance case yesterday.

As expected, President Obama’s latest “pivot” to the economy is less than meets the eye.

Time to “pivot to the economy” again.

The Chairman of the RNC wants the GOP to hold its quadrennial convention earlier in the year. He’s right.

The GOP seems to be making the same mistakes that led to defeat in 2012.

Republicans have problems with the younger generation that they will need to fix if they’re going to succeed in the future.

The GOP’s latest investigatory crusade could end up backfiring on them.

A top IRS official will reportedly invoke her 5th Amendment rights rather than testify before Congress tomorrow.

Would more information about the Benghazi attacks have changed the outcome of the Presidential election?

Social conservatives are seeing their clout slip away, but there’s not much they can do about it.

Republicans seem to think they need fewer Presidential debates in the 2016 cycle, but it’s unclear how they can make that happen.

Senator Rand Paul has stepped into the immigration debate, but his plan is less than desirable.

The Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether limits on contributions to political candidates is Constitutional.

The GOP seems to be drawing all the wrong lessons from the 2012 elections.

Now that he is on the ballot for good, Republicans seem to be giving Todd Akin a second look. That seems unwise.

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

Another bad jobs report threatens to undermine whatever good will the President had coming off the Democratic National Convention.

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

Tropical Storm Isaac won’t be as much of a danger to Tampa as feared, but it’s still having an impact. That’s all because of bad scheduling ideas.

For the second Presidential election cycle in a row, a tropical storm has resulted in the postponement of the first day events at the Republican National Convention.

The GOP is set to approve rules changes that will impact the 2016 primaries, and beyond. They’re a good start.

Todd Akin says he’s staying in the race, but his party is abandoning him.

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

Mitt Romney and other top Republicans are not taking part in the latest round of the culture war debate over same-sex marriage, for good reason.

The House engaged in a mostly pointless action yesterday afternoon.