Outside the Beltway

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.

Rick Santorum would do well to listen to the words of the last Catholic to be President of the United States.

Things aren’t all sunshine and roses for the Obama 2012 campaign.

There’s no perfect system for choosing a champion but we can do better than this.

Looking back at the Electoral College results of the modern era–and ahead to November.

Mark Richt, head football coach of the University of Georgia Bulldogs, inadvertantly broke NCAA rules by paying coaches and other employees extra money out of his own pocket.

Is Herman Cain for real, or is this rise int he polls just another boomlet destined to fade away?

Steve Clemons highlights former first lady Laura Bush’s continuing work in promoting education and international engagement.

Is it every appropriate to ask candidates about their religious faith? In some cases, yes it is.

The result in the Casey Anthony case is leading, inevitably, to a host of new proposed laws.

President Obama wants a million hybrid cars on the road by 2015. That’s easier said than done.

Some people still think Mitt Romney’s religion is a relevant issue.

The Republican candidates of 2012 are so weak because of GOP losses in 2004 and 2006 Senate and gubernatorial races.

The last American veteran of a conflict which ended nearly a century ago has died.

A commenter asks, “Why does Wisconsin have a quorum rule if not for situations like this?”

Four Senators who just happen to be up for re-election next year are silently looking for alternatives to the Affordable Care Act’s individual mandate.

The home mortgage interest deduction benefits Democrat-voting states most! Is the fix in?

The hunters in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and West Virginia alone would comprise the largest army in the world.

Republicans are making some big promises to try to lure West Virginia Senator-elect Joe Manchin to cross the aisle.

Virginia Senator Jim Webb is the last of a dying breed of Democrats, but his party may need him if it wants to remain competitive anywhere outside of a Blue State.

During the just concluded election season, eleven self-funded candidates spent a total of $ 286 million trying to win elections. Only two of them actually won.

The enthusiasm for Tea Party candidates likely helped the House Republican wave. But it also likely cost the GOP four Senate seats that it would otherwise have won — and thus the majority.

We’ve been talking about the 2010 elections since, oh, the day after the 2008 elections.   Now, it’s time for final predictions.

Thanks to races in as many six states that may be decided by absentee and write-in ballots, we may not know the outcome of the 2010 Elections for several weeks after Election Day.

Voters head to the polls in thirteen days, and current indications are that they’ll be handing a big victory to the Republican Party.

It’s looking less and less likely that the GOP will gain control of the Senate, but they’re going to come awfully close,, and that might be just as good from their point of view.

Polls show the Republicans easily retaking the House but falling short in the Senate. But 2006 showed us that wave elections can produce shocking outcomes.

More bad news for Democrats as a new poll shows that voters are more likely to consider them extreme than Republicans.