Outside the Beltway

The Romney campaign’s critique of the President’s foreign policy record is weak, and based on bad history.

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.

A new round of polling has Obama in the lead and shows reasons why Romney’s supporters should be concerned, but it’s unclear how long any of this will last.

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

Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan are refusing to provide significant details about their tax plan. That’s a mistake.

The recent;y concluded party conventions are further evidence that the events have largely outlived their usefulness.

Last night, Bill Clinton hit one out of the park for the President Of The United States.

Some unpleasant news for the Democrats in a new poll.

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.

Today’s convention activities will include the opening salvos of an attack on the President’s foreign policy. This strikes me as a mistake.

I question the timing of the Republican Convention.

National Review’s Kevin Williamson has some truly bizarre advice for Mitt Romney.

National Review’s Keith Williamson can’t fathom why Alpha Male Mitt Romney is having so much trouble beating Girly Man Barack Obama.

At some point, however, using the bad actions of the past to justify worse actions in the present has to stop.

Both campaigns seem to be focusing on an argument that the voters don’t want to hear.

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

The Obama campaign has begun to respond to the addition of Paul Ryan to the Republican ticket.

President Obama still has the advantage in the battleground states.

Examining a history that might have been.

Mitt Romney is no more of a wimp than George H.W. Bush or John Kerry.

The Romney campaign has hurt the press corps’ feelings.

Major metropolitan areas are routinely shut down for presidential fundraisers.

There are some indications that Mitt Romney may be ready to announce his running mate selection as early as this week.

John Boehner speaks an inconvenient, for Mitt Romney at least, truth.

With four months to go until Election Day, the Obama Campaign was greeted with a very dismal jobs report this morning.

London’s iconic clock tower, known affectionately as “Big Ben” for some 150 years, has been renamed “Elizabeth Tower” in honor of QE2’s 60 years as royal figurehead.

The 1976 Pulitizer prize winner is phoning it in.

The “Mormon Question” that has long plagued Mitt Romney is being raised again by a new study showing the sentiment rising among liberals and non-believers.

Neil Munro acted like a jerk, but Barack Obama needs to be more open to questions than he has been.

The Republican nominee gets some backhanded praise from an unlikely source, MoJo blogger Kevin Drum.

How would modern Republicans treat Ronald Reagan and his Vice-President?

What lessons can we draw from the Wisconsin Recall?

87% of those who gave at least $200 to Barack Obama in 2008 have not yet done so in 2012.

A spate of bad economic news foretells a shift in the campaign for President.

The official portrait of George W. Bush, the 43rd president, was unveiled at the White House yesterday. The ceremony was a rare display of political humor and grace.

The New York Times finds some infighting among old Republican foreign policy hands.