Outside the Beltway

Optimism sells. Someone should remind the GOP of this fact.

The White House is playing a game that few people are buying.

Ron Paul’s supporters are racking up delegate wins at party conventions in caucus states, but it won’t matter in the end.

The New Yorker’s John Cassidy sees “Good and Bad News for Obama” in Nicolas Sarkozy’s defeat.

Did Joe Biden misspeak, or drop a hint that he shouldn’t have?

The Libertarian Party has chosen another former Republican politician as their Presidential nominee.

Phony wars on Stay At Home Moms, dogs, and Osama bin Laden. The Obama campaign is pointing at the shiny object, and the right is falling for it.

Elizabeth Warren’s Senate campaign stumbled badly this week.

When Dan Drezner tweeted “I’m not going to read anything dumber than this today,” my inclination was to scoff. He actually undersold it.

Once again, the jobs market appears to be slowing.

Obama has an advantage in what is likely to be one of the most important states in November’s election, but the race is far from over.

The argument that Barack Obama hasn’t been vetted is simply absurd.

Based on the postmortems, it certainly seems like the Romney campaign threw Richard Grenell under the bus.

The GOP’s response to the Obama campaign’s Osama bin Laden ad has not been helpful.

Parties are in politics primarily to win the vote of the median voter, not to join together and sing Kumbaya.

Richard Grenell’s time as Mitt Romney’s foreign policy spokesman lasted less than a month. The fact that he’s gay appears to be the reason it ended.

Osama bin Laden’s death provides Barack Obama with an important political shield during the upcoming campaign.

Some Navy SEALs are weighing in on the brouhaha.

The biggest argument against Romney winning in November is the fact that there aren’t many ways for him to get to those pesky 270 Electoral Votes.

Is Mitt Romney the least experienced major-party presidential nominee since1940?

Joe Biden says we can’t afford a president who has to learn foreign policy on the job.

The Obama campaign’s cheap politicizing of the SEAL raid that took out bin Laden is unseemly. And unnecessary.

Does the Romney campaign know the USSR doesn’t exist anymore? Of course they do, but the language they use still means something.

Republicans should have listened to Mitch Daniels, because he was right.

Some thoughts on the voter registration/voter turnout debate.

Last week, an absurd campaign became even more absurd.

We should want more voters, not less, if we actually value representaitve democracy.