Outside the Beltway

A new Gallup poll shows President Obama beating Hillary Clinton in a hypothetical 2012 Democratic nomination fight. Nobody should be surprised by that.

Despite hopes that they could help reverse a 20 year trend, both Carly Fiorina and Meg Whitman are beginning to lose ground in their races for statewide office in California.

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

Public trust in Congress is at an all time low, again, and the public doesn’t trust either party to fix things.

Another new media star is coming to the rescue of an old media dinosaur. Put it’s probably too late.

The prospect of repealing Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell before the November elections is in doubt thanks to a threatened filibuster led by Arizona’s John McCain.

I was never particularly hopeful that the GOP would retake the Senate, but even if it turns out that O’Donnell’s nomination prevents it from happening, I can’t bring myself to care all that much.

Newt Gingrich is drawing fire for his comments about that the President has a “Kenyan world view.” But, will Newt every pay the price for his inflammatory rhetoric ? Don’t count on it.

With Rahm Emanuel apparently set to leave the White House to run for Mayor of Chicago, speculation is turning to who may replace him in what some have called the nation’s de facto Prime Minister-ship.

Civilian control of the military means, oddly, that civilians control the military. And it means precisely that the military does not get to decide which civilians run the country.

If Republicans stick to their current (apparent) game plan and just run on not being Democrats, they will have neither a mandate to repeal Obamacare, et al, nor the will.

The Nevada Senate race is, in many ways, a three-way in which none of the above could be a spoiler for Angle.

If Republicans regain control of Congress, you could be seeing a lot of scenes like this on your television for the next two years.

If you think Jimmy Carter is the Worst Figure in American History, you really need to read more.

The poll numbers look grim for the President, but it’s still far too early to be making predictions about the 2012 elections.

Should anyone care that Chelsea Clinton’s wedding was ridiculously lavish?

American Conservatism has changed significantly since the days of William F. Buckley Jr. One former National Review editor says that it’s changed for the worse.

According to Maureen Dowd, Barack Obama’s biggest problem is that there are too many white people in this picture.

With everyone concerned about the budget deficit, the idea of cutting military spending is finally gaining traction on Capitol Hill.

House Republican leaders want to repeal ObamaCare. But, even if the GOP takes over Congress, Obama will still have the veto.

While political junkies dissect every vote and utterance, most Americans vote based on their gut sense of how the economy is doing.

Reports of Barack Obama’s political death are greatly exaggerated and wildly premature.

How do President Obama’s accomplishments stack up from a liberal standpoint?

The President likely has some very bad poll numbers on his mind this morning.

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

Presidential approval ratings at the 18-month mark don’t tell you much about re-election prospects.

The latest bad idea from some conservative pundits ? Sarah Palin for Chair of the Republican National Committee.

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

A survey of historians ranks Obama as the 15th best president ever, ahead of Ronald Reagan and behind Bill Clinton.

Not surprisingly, Elena Kagan finished her testimony without giving any real ammunition to the Republicans.

Miss yesterday’s opening round of the Kagan hearings ? You didn’t miss much.

If the trend continues, 2010 will mark a record number of conservatives for the Gallup poll since it began asking the question in 1992.

Is it time to elect a President that doesn’t have that “lean and hungry look” ?

Americans on both sides of the aisle throw around words like “tyranny” and “fascism” about our system. But there are constant small reminders we are under the rule of law.

It is notoriously difficult to judge a presidency mid-stream.

How super-dramatic, amazing and unprecedented would it be if Emanuel left his job at the WH?