Outside the Beltway

Two veteran reporters, including the dean of the Virginia press corps, have been fired by the AP after falsely reporting that Terry McAuliffe lied to federal authorities.

The Virginia Governor’s race may be slipping too far for Republicans to pull off a victory.

One of the nation’s papers of record is changing owners for the first time in 80 years.

President Obama has appointed a lot of donor’s and supporters to plumb Ambassadorial slots. That’s not at all unusual.

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

Obama’s fundraising team helped raise half a million dollars for Hillary Clinton.

Questions about why the Obama administration pretended the attacks on our Embassy in Libya were a spontaneous reaction to a video rather than a coordinated terrorist attack are gaining steam.

POLITICO has a new eBook on the Obama campaign and wants you to buy it.

Breaking: The American press often does a lousy job.

The Obama campaign is challenging an Ohio law that gives members of the military three extra days to vote. They have a very persuasive argument.

Virginia could be the state that decides who controls the United States Government.

Ted Nugent, whose music I really liked when I was in junior high school, said something vile and crazy.

Picking the wrong target.

Yesterday, the campaign silly season got particularly silly.

The future of the Republican race in 2012 is in the balance in the Wolverine State.

Can anyone bring the primary debate schedule under control?

Mitt Romney’s first television ad is built around a Barack Obama quote that has been cropped so that he’s saying the opposite of what he actually said.

The Twitterverse and the Democratic National Committee are having a field day with Mitt Romney’s declaration that “Corporations are people, my friend.”

Should President Obama call Congress back into session? Not if there’s nothing to do he shouldn’t.

The Obama campaign is stressing that 98 percent of its donations were from little guys contributing $250 or less. But 40 percent of the money came from a handful of major donors.

When John McCain declared that Sarah Palin could beat President Obama, it was easy to dismiss. But when the architect of the Democratic strategy in 2008, says the same thing, you have to listen.

Dan Balz titles today’s column “Romney bets his candidacy on the economy.” My reaction upon seeing that was, that’s a pretty safe bet.

Obama brings rapid response, blogger “hand holding” in-house.

Florida has again scheduled its primary ahead of the deadlines set by the Republican and Democratic parties.