Outside the Beltway

Crisis seems to be brewing all over the world, but the American people aren’t persuaded that it’s necessary for the United States to act.

John Boehner’s latest political move is designed mostly to appease the GOP base, but it’s likely a non-starter from a legal point of view.

It might not be pretty.

After many ballyhooed glitches, 7 million Americans have signed up for ObamaCare. Now what?

For now at least, Republicans are far more enthusiastic about voting in November than Democrats. That could be decisive.

Time to start talking about lame ducks?

There’s still a week to go in Virginia’s Governor’s race, but it’s clear that this race is effectively over.

The government shutdown seems to be having an impact on the one competitive statewide race in country this year.

The race for Governor in Virginia is tightening, and Libertarian Party nominee Robert Sarvis is one of the reasons why.

Another poll shows the President’s poll numbers dipping.

Virginia’s voters really don’t seem to like their choices for Governor.

The GOP has a serious image problem.

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

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

Last night’s debate was rough and tumble, but it’s unlikely to change the state of the race.

Romney’s post-debate surge is being picked up in swing state polls, but will it be enough?

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.

The Court’s 2012-2013 term begins tomorrow morning, and there are plenty of big cases on the docket.

The arguments of the people claiming that every single poll showing Mitt Romney is unfairly biased do not stand up to scrutiny.

Just as we saw in 2008, the conservative base doesn’t want to hear their nominee saying that the President is a basically decent man.

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

For some reason, Paul Ryan decided to talk about school prayer this weekend.

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

The 2012 campaign is revealing once again that many conservatives have a view of President Obama not shared by the public at large.

Last night, Bill Clinton hit one out of the park for the President Of The United States.

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

Today’s convention activities will include the opening salvos of an attack on the President’s foreign policy. This strikes me as a mistake.

The political convention we know is a 19th Century relic. It’s time to modernize it and make it a lot shorter.

The Romney/Ryan ticket has gained grown in Wisconsin and Florida, and is steady in Ohio, but they’ve got a Medicare problem.

Heading into the party conventions, the Presidential race is as close as ever.

Abortion and “legitimate rape” are not what the Romney campaign should be having to deal with this week.

Most of the early reaction on the right consider’s the selection of Paul Ryan a smart move on Mitt Romney’s part, but you could also say it’s just risky.

The most recent round of national polling seems to show that the negative attacks on Romney are having an impact.

Mitt Romney and other top Republicans are not taking part in the latest round of the culture war debate over same-sex marriage, for good reason.

Three new polls show President Obama leading in three key battleground states.