Outside the Beltway

By failing to respond adequately, Mitt Romney is letting his opponent define him for the voters. That could hurt him greatly in November.

Three swing state poll results should be raising some real concerns among Team Romney today.

Not surprisingly, President Obama’s immigration announcement has been very well received among Latino voters.

While the news media is focused on sixteen battleground states, the professionals running the Obama and Romney campaigns are focused on a much narrower list.

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

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

A pro-Republican SuperPAC may be bringing the Jeremiah Wright story back. That would be bad news for the Romney campaign.

A tough new Obama campaign ad highlights people who lost their jobs after a Bain Capital takeover–at a time Mitt Romney was not at Bain Capital.

Weeks of bizarre talk about contraception and vaginal ultrasounds has surprisingly alienated women from the Republican Party.

Mitt Romney won big in Illinois last night, and moved a big step closer to wrapping this race up.

Once again, people are engaging in largely mindless speculation involving Hillary Clinton.

Signs that Newt Gingrich’s rise may be faltering.

The Electoral College doesn’t matter in the way pundits think it does.

Despite the seeming odds against him, the Electoral College map is very favorable for President Obama.

The partisan crowds like President Obama’s populist rhetoric but it seems ill-suited for his re-election strategy.

Is money the only thing that matters in post-Citizens United American politics?

A book could be written on this subject, but let me suggest the following as a good place to start

Of the institutions designed by the Framers, the electoral college is the one that deserves the least amount of defense if one’s defense is predicated on assumptions of the genius of said framers.

State-level job approval numbers seem to suggest that the President could have Electoral College worries in 2012.

The electoral map should be making the Obama 2012 camp just a little bit nervous.

There are signs that the Ryan Plan isn’t playing well with the public.

Barack Obama may not be doing much campaigning in the fall if recent poll numbers are any indication.