Outside the Beltway

Mitt Romney wasn’t a perfect candidate, but he was much better than most of the 2012 Republican field.

Some people on the right apparently want to return to this map.

Many conservatives are living inside of a media bubble and they’ll continue to have problems until the consciously decide to break out of it.

Barone tells some tales to make himself feel better.

Republicans used to dominate California. Now, they’re barely a factor in the state’s politics.

Political reality says that the Bush Tax Cuts for high income earners are likely doomed in the wake of the election, but the GOP will find it very hard to switch positions on this issue.

Turning young voters into Young Republicans isn’t going to be an easy thing for the GOP to pull off.

The Democratic Party appears to have a lock on a substantial part of the Electoral College. That poses a problem for Republicans.

Any chance that the Affordable Care Act will be repealed died with the re-election of Barack Obama. But, there are other fights to come.

More griping about poor analysis.

Republicans are trying to figure out what went wrong. Will they learn the right lessons from their loss?

Without question, Barack Obama won the foreign policy debate in the 2012 campaign.

The ink is barely dry on Barack Obama’s victory and some conservatives are already focusing blame on the Governor of New Jersey.

If you’re a white Southerner who gets most of his information from Fox News and Rush Limbaugh, you probably don’t know a lot of people who voted for Barack Obama.

The 2012 Election should be a warning to the GOP that it needs to open itself up to minority groups, especially Latinos.

Why I supported Mitt Romney despite his constant flip-flopping, fibbing, and fecklessness.

President Obama easily won re-election last night, carrying virtually all of the battleground states. Meanwhile, abortion, gay marriage, and recreational marijuana also won big.

There are still votes to be counted, and the Romney campaign has yet to concede, but the race is over and Barack Obama has been re-elected.

It’s time to panic over anonymous guys in Philadelphia again, at least if you work at Fox News Channel.

If we elected presidents by a national telephone survey using Gallup’s likely voter screen, Mitt Romney would be a happy man.

In a silly quadrennial tradition, the residents of Dixville Notch, New Hampshire voted at midnight. It was a tie.

The 2012 Election promises to be close in the Popular Voter, but President Obama still retains an Electoral College advantage.

The Romney campaign doesn’t seem too confident of its path to victory.

Democrats Barack Obama and Tim Kaine have gained momentum in Virginia in weekend polling.

Republicans already seem to be blaming Hurricane Sandy in the event Mitt Romney loses.

Barack Obama’s Washington is more foul-mouthed and course, according to no evidence whatsoever.

Republicans are going to get trounced among Latino voters tomorrow, and they only have themselves to blame.

President Obama is likely to win re-election while overwhelmingly losing the white vote. Does it matter?

Could Romney win Ohio by ginning up Republican turnout and tamping down Democratic votes?

OTB bloggers give their best guesses on the House and Senate races.