Outside the Beltway

An attempt to declare the filibuster unconstitutional has ended in failure.

With less than a week left, the odds of a deal to avert the “Fiscal Cliff” seem longer than ever.

Last night’s defeat of “Plan B” demonstrated yet again that John Boehner does not really control his caucus.

Harry Reid appears to be short of the votes he needs to enact filibuster reform.

Once again, Senate Democrats are talking about filibuster reform, but will they actually follow through?

If you’re a white Southerner who gets most of his information from Fox News and Rush Limbaugh, you probably don’t know a lot of people who voted for Barack Obama.

The GOP’s hopes of taking over the Senate in 2012 have all but slipped away, but there is another option.

Republicans are going to get trounced among Latino voters tomorrow, and they only have themselves to blame.

Mitt Romney has ground to make up if he’s going to catch the President and there’s not much time left to do it.

President Obama seems to have given away the store when it comes to the defense sequestration cuts.

Republican problems among Latino voters could have an influence on several close races this year.

Depending on what time you watched any of last night’s proceedings in Charlotte, you got a very different experience.

At some point, however, using the bad actions of the past to justify worse actions in the present has to stop.

GOP stratgist Alex Castellanos issues a challenge.

Dan Balz summarizes what has been “A most poisonous campaign” and is likely to get much worse before it gets over.

Yesterday it became clear that the Presidential campaign is headed into the mud.

Mitt Romney has effectively rebooted his campaign by picking Paul Ryan, but he’s also handed the President a powerful weapon.

Mitt Romney is showing signs that the negative attacks from the Obama camp are getting to him.

Romney’s new ad on a ruling issued by HHS on welfare-to-work requirements doesn’t pass the smell test.

Harry Reid is a scoundrel, not a hero.

Drudge Report says Team Obama thinks CIA Director David Petraeus will be Mitt Romney’s vice presidential pick.

Publishing unsubstantiated rumor is not journalism.

Don’t look for an effort to enact new gun laws in the wake of the Aurora shootings.

The House engaged in a mostly pointless action yesterday afternoon.

The “Mormon Question” that has long plagued Mitt Romney is being raised again by a new study showing the sentiment rising among liberals and non-believers.

How would modern Republicans treat Ronald Reagan and his Vice-President?

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.

Common Cause has filed a specious lawsuit alleging that the filibuster is unconstitutional.

Harry Reid is apparently regretting not going forward with filibuster reform in January 2011.

Charlie Savage documents a major shift in Barack Obama’s philosophy of presidential authority.