Outside the Beltway

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.

Mitt Romney’s foreign policy weaknesses are starting to become apparent.

Mitt Romney still has problems with Southern whites that could pose problems for him in states like Virginia and North Carolina.

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.

Over the weekend, Mitt Romney was sounding more like Rick Santorum than himself.

If the first round of post-convention polling is correct, President Obama may be pulling away from Mitt Romney.

As the final stretch of the campaign begins in earnest, Mitt Romney faces a very difficult task.

Depending on what time you watched any of last night’s proceedings in Charlotte, you got a very different experience.

It’s Obama’s race to lose, not a coin toss.

Obama heads into his convention in a good position, but with several potential pitfalls in his path.

A clear victory for the Obama campaign in an Ohio Court, but will it stand on appeal?

Once again, a Presidential election could be decided by the Buckeye State.

Left with a choice between their hawkish foreign policy and their supposed commitment to fiscal conservatives, Republicans will, without fail, spend the nation into debt.

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

I question the timing of the Republican Convention.

Mitt Romney visited an Ohio coal mine to promote jobs in the industry, unwittingly showing why a job in the industry sucks.

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

Unless something changes, Obama remains the odds-on favorite to win.

The Romney Campaign is reportedly planning a more aggressive campaign against the President for the fall.

UVA says a presidential visit isn’t worth the hassle or expense. They’re right.

A pre-Convention look at the Electoral College map finds Mitt Romney in the same tight spot he’s been in for months now.

Heading into the party conventions, the Presidential race is as close as ever.

The Justice Department has approved Virginia’s completely useless voter ID law.

National Republicans aren’t at all thrilled with Todd Akin right now.

It’s been two months since the President has taken questions from the reporters who cover him.

Two groups of former special operations soldiers are opposing Obama. Their military bonafides are not their most interesting credentials.

John Cole takes exception to my recent summary of recent Obama campaign highlight.

Entirely unsurprisingly, the shooting at the Family Research Center’s office in Washington, D.C. is already being politicized.

No, Barack Obama is not going to dump Joe Biden before the Democratic Convention.

A black ‘Democrat’ who seconded Obama’s nomination in 2008 is endorsing Romney in 2012. It’s not a big deal.

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.

A group of former special operations and intelligence officers are criticizing President Obama for “Dishonorable Disclosures.”

Is the the 2012 Republican Presidential ticket? We’ll find out Saturday morning.

A Federal case in Virginia is testing the boundaries of what constitutes protected speech in the digital age.

In my adult memory, the American South was a one-party Democratic region for all but presidential elections. Aside from minority set-aside districts, the reversal is near complete.

President Obama still has the advantage in the battleground states.

Rob Portman, Bob McDonnell, and Brian Sandoval yield the biggest Electoral College advantage.

Mitt Romney continues to have serious problems getting people to like him.

While you might think of Yale as an elite school, it’s business school is ranked 21st–below Michigan State’s.