Outside the Beltway

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

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.

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.

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

Voters in four states endorsed marriage equality yesterday.

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.

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

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?

Mitt Romney has an advantage among self-identified Independents that makes writing him off at this point inadvisable.

I was struck by the degree to which WhiteHouse.gov looks like an Obama campaign site.

There are several circumstances under which we may not know who won the 2012 election for some time after November 6th

The candidate’s meet for one last time tonight to talk about some of the most important issues in the world.

Newspaper endorsements are getting a lot of attention in the closing days of the campaign, but do they really matter?

All eyes on Northern Virginia.

Hillary Clinton doesn’t have much sympathy for her former aide’s inability to “have it all.”

American politicians are using China as a scapegoat for America’s problems.

Romney needs a far better answer to the Bush question.

The President has yet to tell us what he would do with a Second Term.

For all the hype, it’s unlikely that tonight’s debate will have the same impact as the October 3rd Debate.

Should we stop televising political debates?

President Obama hinted that he might be more aggressive in his next debate with Mitt Romney. That could be a mistake.

Will conservatives freak out if Romney loses? That’s pretty much guaranteed.

Let’s take a trip back in time to see what some conservatives thought 2012 would look like if Barack Obama were elected President.

September’s BLS Report will likely be significant but, behind the numbers, things don’t look all that great.

Mitt Romney won the debate last night, but it’s not at all clear that this will matter at all.

A five year old “shocking” video of President Obama speaking to a group of African-American ministers proves to be not very shocking at all.

A sign at a local Exxon station seemingly blames high gasoline prices on Barack Obama.

Not surprisingly, television and reality don’t really coincide.

The biggest surprise of the Presidential race to date is the fact that Mitt Romney has lost the edge he once had on economic issues.

Mitt Romney’s “47 Percent” remarks seem to be hurting him.