Outside the Beltway

A spate of bad economic news foretells a shift in the campaign for President.

Mitt Romney thinks prospective Presidents should be required to have business experience.

The president has come a long way from his days as a “liberal law professor who campaigned against the Iraq war.”

Vetting, media bias, and a passing swipe at the war on terror.

Bill Clinton is the latest Democrat to defend private equity, and Mitt Romney’s business record. It would appear this meme is on its last legs.

It’s another bad jobs report for May, and time once again to wonder how much slower this economy can get.

Yet more evidence that this is shaping up to be a very close election.

The economic statistics aren’t pointing in a very optimistic direction.

The New York Times finds some infighting among old Republican foreign policy hands.

Mitt Romney is criticizing the President over his Syria policy, but his alternative ideas aren’t very good.

Romney comes down firmly on the guns side of guns and butter.

Mitt Romney continues to keep Donald Trump close. It makes no sense, but it isn’t likely to matter in the end.

For the first time in 68 years, neither major party candidate for President has served in the military. Does this matter?

The Obama campaign’s focus on Mitt Romney’s years at Bain Capital don’t seem to be working.

Is President Obama’s announcement on same-sex marriage helping to create a change in opinion on the issue among African-Americans?

Mitt Romney gained some ground in Swing State polling, but that just makes clear how narrow his path to 270 Electoral Votes actually is.

Does the fizzled out Facebook IPO tell us anything about the state of the economy? Not really.

The GOP has a serious problem with the Latino vote, and it may too late to fix it.

The margin between Barack Obama and Mitt Romeny is razor-thin, and it’s likely to stay that way for quite some time.

Figuring out how much of the opposition to a black president is based on racism is . . . complicated.

Another reason to give everyone adiditional pause (as there already ought to be some) for anyone looking to Breitbart’s empire for good information.

The “Clinton-Biden Switcheroo” Scenario is the pundit’s fantasy that will not die.

States actually have constitutional authority over the selection of electors, not of the president.