Outside the Beltway

Republicans are trying to figure out what went wrong. Will they learn the right lessons from their loss?

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

The Romney campaign doesn’t seem too confident of its path to victory.

OTB bloggers give their best guesses on the House and Senate races.

The OTB gang give their best guess at the outcome of the 2012 presidential contest.

The nation’s capitol is closed in anticipation of Hurricane Sandy. But the Supreme Court will be reporting for duty.

Equating opposition to the President with racism is absurd.

We could be headed for another extremely close election where the Electoral Vote and the Popular Vote disagree with each other.

The Pew poll is no longer an outlier but the start of a trend.

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.

It’s looking less likely that the GOP will be able to gain control of the Senate.

Technically, you don’t own your digital music files. That means you can’t transfer them to your heirs after you die.

Over two days of speakers, not a single Republican has mentioned the Tea Party.

A legal setback for the Texas Voter ID law, but not much of a political setback for Voter ID laws in general.

An Atlantic story on veterans returning to college is both poignant and miscast.

As its convention begins, one has to wonder what has happened to the Republican Party.

Bill Keith built a successful business making solar-powered ceiling fans. The President’s trade policies are in the process of destroying it.

A pre-Convention look at the Electoral College map finds Mitt Romney in the same tight spot he’s been in for months now.

Breaking: The American press often does a lousy job.

Moderate Republicans in the House are starting to become more assertive in voicing their frustrations with how Congress is operating.

Another study shows that voter ID laws negatively affect a lot of Americans.

Stephen Green projects the best case and minimal winning scenarios for Obama and Romney.

Congress has found Eric Holder to be in contempt. I am not entirely sure what that accomplishes.

Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels will become president of Purdue University upon completion of his term in January. The faculty is apprehensive because Daniels has not had an academic career.

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.

The Obama campaign’s focus on Mitt Romney’s years at Bain Capital don’t seem to be working.

The City of Detroit appears ready to abandon vast sections of itself to the metaphorical jungle.

Mitt Romney gained some ground in Swing State polling, but that just makes clear how narrow his path to 270 Electoral Votes actually is.

Yesterday, Cory Booker committed the rookie mistake of saying what was on his mind.

Larry Bird has been named NBA Executive of the Year. Is there any basketball-related honor he hasn’t won?

The battle is on for control of the Senate, but whoever wins is likely to have a very slim majority.

Mitt Romney is being rightfully ridiculed for trying to take credit for saving General Motors and Chrysler.