Outside the Beltway

An obscure Arizona law has raised questions over whether Congressman Gabrielle Giffords could lose her seat if she is disabled for an extended period.

One columnist argues that Sarah Palin’s response to the Arizona shootings mark the end of whatever political future she might have had. He’s probably correct.

Geno Auriemma and his UConn Huskies should rightly be enormously proud of their accomplishments. But comparing them to John Wooden’s is embarrassing.

The prospective Republican field for 2012 is dismal. Then again, it always is.

This is a strange disconnect between Sarah Palin’s popularity within the Republican Party and her popularity with the nation as a whole. One wonders if the GOP notices, or cares.

The odds that Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell will be repealed anytime in the near future are fairly close to zero thanks to the results of last Tuesday’s elections.

Despite votes in the 2010 contest still being counted, polls for 2012 are already pouring out. They’re largely meaningless.

Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson takes a look at the Tea Party movement and claims to find racism.

Mike Huckabee is the latest Republican to tack up the banner against the so-called “elites.”

Politico says 99 Democratic House seats are “in play.” They’re not. But dozens are.

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.

Even with some key seats trending Democrat, Republicans are primed to take over both Houses of Congress come November 2.

After several years in the wilderness, Dick Morris has returned as a Fox News analyst and, bizarrely, adviser to several Republican candidates for Congress.

The effort to repeal Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell suffered a setback in the Senate today that likely delays any further moves on the issue until after the midterm elections.

Could Mike Pence make the leap from the House of Representatives to the White House ? It’s possible, but history and the likely GOP field in 2012 suggest it would be very difficult.

For most of the year, a GOP takeover in the Senate seemed beyond the realm of possibility. That’s no longer the case.

That attitudes towards gay marriage varies by state won’t surprise you. The degree to which it does just might.

It’s time for the Gingrich For President speculation to begin again.

The Democratic Senate primary in Arkansas may have been influenced by questionable poll results from Research 2000.

Having long since gotten rid of rum and the lash, I suppose this day was inevitable.