Outside the Beltway

Social conservatives are seeing their clout slip away, but there’s not much they can do about it.

The American people no longer seem to care if their political leaders are divorced.

Will the prohibitive favorite for the 2016 Democratic nomination do it differently this time around?

The Republican field for 2016 is more wide open than any we’ve seen in a long time.

For the moment, Hillary Clinton looks unbeatable if she chooses to run in 2016

The Iraq War did significant damage to the legacy of the Republican Party.

President Lyndon Johnson considered flying to the 1968 convention and offering himself up for re-nomination.

The GOP’s public image continues to be bad and there seems to be little sign that they’re doing anything to change that.

Rahm Emanuel is reportedly considering a 2016 presidential run. It’s a thin report.

Chris Christie looks unstoppable in his bid for re-election

The GOP has a serious image problem.

The GOP is following a strategy on the debt ceiling that cannot possibly succeed.

Cory Booker’s decision to explore a run for the U.S. Senate has upset the powers-that-be in New Jersey Democratic politics.

For the New Year, how about challenging your ideas just a little bit?

Today, there are many millions of Americans who can tell one Kardashian sister from another, but have no idea that Barack Obama has compiled the worst presidential record since Jimmy Carter.

Charlie Crist, run out of the Republican Party, is now a Democrat.

Harvard’s pet conservative offers a critique of the Democratic Party that reads like something from the OTB comments section.

Are two-term Presidencies the new normal?

Republicans need to realize that they are at a disadvantage in the upcoming negotiations regarding the Fiscal Cliff.

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Any chance that the Affordable Care Act will be repealed died with the re-election of Barack Obama.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.

The analyst actually wants to understand and be correct far more than he or she wants their preferences to prevail in the analysis

It’s just a few days until the 2012 campaign ends, and the jostling for position for 2016 begins.

Why is Romney bragging on education policies a Democrat would love?

Getting to the heart of the problem from my POV (plus historical numbers).

Whether Mitt Romney wins or loses, the GOP needs to evolve or be doomed to minority party status.

The battle over Wisconsin’s public sector union reform continues.

Several recent polls suggest that Mitt Romney is losing the advantage he had over the President on economic issues.

Over the weekend, Mitt Romney was sounding more like Rick Santorum than himself.

Based on its recently passed platform, the Democratic Party has given up any pretense of putting civil liberties ahead of “national security.”

President Obama didn’t blow the doors off the Time Warner Cable Arena last night, but he didn’t need to.