Outside the Beltway

Once again, the Keystone State is teasing the GOP.

Mitt Romney continues to benefit from the first Presidential Debate, but will that last past the second debate?

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

The Presidential race seems to be returning to the state it was in before the political conventions.

The Supreme Court seems likely to severely limit the use of race-based preferences at public universities

Romney’s post-debate surge is being picked up in swing state polls, but will it be enough?

One pollster has called three battleground states 27 days early.

For the first time all cycle, Mitt Romney leads Barack Obama in the RealClearPolitics average.

Mitt Romney is once again making completely false claims about the status of the United States Navy.

The Pew poll is no longer an outlier but the start of a trend.

Yet another in a long line of critiques of the electoral college.

Mitt Romney’s speech at VMI today was billed as a major foreign policy address, but it was incredibly light on substance.

The Afghanistan War is officially eleven years old today.

Mitt Romney has gotten a bump in the polls from Wednesday debate, but it’s still too early to say if it means anything.

Too little, too late?

Before last night, Romney was toast and Republicans were demoralized; now, there’s a glimmer of hope.

Mitt Romney won the debate last night, but it’s not at all clear that this will matter at all.

Iran’s currency has collapsed and there are riot police in the streets of Teheran. It appears the sanctions may just be working after all.

For no apparent reason, the presidential race is tightening ahead of tonight’s first debate, according to two reputable national polls.

Ten years ago starting today, John Allen Mohammed and Lee Boyd Malvo began a crime spree that kept the D.C. area on a knife’s edge for three long weeks.

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

Mitt Romney’s “47 Percent” remarks seem to be hurting him.

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.

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

Sacrificing our principles in the face of mob violence is never a good idea.

Many on the right are heavily invested in the argument that current polling is intentionally biased against Mitt Romney. Their argument is not very plausible.

Mitt Romney has an Ohio problem, and little time to fix it.

It’s looking less likely that the GOP will be able to gain control of the Senate.

Mitt Romney’s campaign schedule has been oddly light recently.

In order to win, Mitt Romney needs the support of a large segment of the 47% of the populace he wrote off back in May.

The President’s poll lead has shrunk, but there are still signs of trouble for Mitt Romney.

So, Mitt Romney opened his mouth again.

Today is the anniversary of a significant turning point in the Civil War.