Outside the Beltway

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

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

Based on its recently passed platform, the Democratic Party has given up any pretense of putting civil liberties ahead of “national security.”

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

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

The 2012 campaign is revealing once again that many conservatives have a view of President Obama not shared by the public at large.

Hey GOP, Lt. Sulu has some questions for you.

Ann Romney dodged questions from a reporter seeking her personal opinions on hot-button social issues. Good for her.

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

When it comes to issues like medical marijuana, Mitt Romney and Barack Obama are reading from the same playbook.

Another bad jobs report threatens to undermine whatever good will the President had coming off the Democratic National Convention.

President Obama didn’t blow the doors off the Time Warner Cable Arena last night, but he didn’t need to.

The President and his supporters say that Congressional Republicans will temper their rhetoric in a second Obama term. Don’t count on it.

Another platform controversy?

The President Obama lost his cool with Speaker Boehner on debt negotiations is not nearly as important as the underlying reason a deal couldn’t be reached.

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

A POLITICO analysis finds that “Obama and his top campaign aides have engaged far more frequently in character attacks and personal insults than the Romney campaign.”

What should have been a simple parliamentary procedure, conducted under President Obama’s orders no less, turned into something of an embarrassment.

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

The Obama campaign’s 4.5 new private sector jobs claim is true, but only if you forget the first year of the Obama Administration.

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

If we are going to assess the “Reagan Question” then methinks some data would be helpful.

Some unpleasant news for the Democrats in a new poll.

Do fiscal conservatives realize they’re being sold a bill of goods?

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