Outside the Beltway

Any chance that the Affordable Care Act will be repealed died with the re-election of Barack Obama. But, there are other fights to come.

If the Romney campaign looked shocked on Election Night, that’s because they didn’t believe the polls either.

Republicans are trying to figure out what went wrong. Will they learn the right lessons from their loss?

The impact of outside spending on the election turned out to be far less consequential than many had feared.

President Obama easily won re-election last night, carrying virtually all of the battleground states. Meanwhile, abortion, gay marriage, and recreational marijuana also won big.

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.

The GOP’s hopes of taking over the Senate in 2012 have all but slipped away, but there is another option.

The 2012 Election promises to be close in the Popular Voter, but President Obama still retains an Electoral College advantage.

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

Democrats Barack Obama and Tim Kaine have gained momentum in Virginia in weekend polling.

Republicans already seem to be blaming Hurricane Sandy in the event Mitt Romney loses.

Republicans are going to get trounced among Latino voters tomorrow, and they only have themselves to blame.

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

OTB bloggers give their best guesses on the House and Senate races.

The OTB gang give their best guess at the outcome of the 2012 presidential contest.

Utility crews from Alabama traveled to New Jersey to help get the power back on. They were turned away on account of not being unionized.

Making note of some of the predictions and such as we approach November 6th.

Mitt Romney has ground to make up if he’s going to catch the President and there’s not much time left to do it.

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

Mitt Romney has an advantage among self-identified Independents that makes writing him off at this point inadvisable.

Naturally, most of us are asking: What does this mean for next Tuesday’s election.

Equating opposition to the President with racism is absurd.

The Mid-Atlantic region is under the gun.

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

First in a series of posts looking at the substance of the final presidential debate, ostensibly about foreign policy.

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

President Obama seems to have given away the store when it comes to the defense sequestration cuts.

Like the men who came before him, Barack Obama has vastly increased the powers of his office. Someone should have asked him about that last night.

A recent poll has Obama and Romney tied among women. Another gives Obama a 33 point edge.

With sixteen days to go, the race for President is tied.

Newspaper endorsements are getting a lot of attention in the closing days of the campaign, but do they really matter?

All eyes on Northern Virginia.

National numbers can overstate regional preferences.

We could be headed for another extremely close election where the Electoral Vote and the Popular Vote disagree with each other.

A Bangladeshi man was arrested yesterday in New York for an apparent plot to bomb Federal Buildings. The entire plot was an FBI sting operation.