Outside the Beltway

More griping about poor analysis.

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.

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

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

Both campaigns are trying to set the stage for Wednesday’s debate.

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.

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

Ronald Reagan was leading Jimmy Carter long before the two men met in Cleveland on October 28th, 1980.

Mitt Romney’s foreign policy weaknesses are starting to become apparent.

President Obama didn’t blow the doors off the Time Warner Cable Arena last night, but he didn’t need to.

A POLITICO analysis finds that “Obama and his top campaign aides have engaged far more frequently in character attacks and personal insults than the Romney campaign.”

In a radio interview last week, Paul Ryan claimed to have run a sub-3 hour marathon. He did no such thing.

Once again, a Presidential election could be decided by the Buckeye State.

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

Tropical Storm Isaac won’t be as much of a danger to Tampa as feared, but it’s still having an impact. That’s all because of bad scheduling ideas.

Two groups of former special operations soldiers are opposing Obama. Their military bonafides are not their most interesting credentials.

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

A black ‘Democrat’ who seconded Obama’s nomination in 2008 is endorsing Romney in 2012. It’s not a big deal.

A group of former special operations and intelligence officers are criticizing President Obama for “Dishonorable Disclosures.”

Is the the 2012 Republican Presidential ticket? We’ll find out Saturday morning.

The recent call by many on the right for Mitt Romney to select Paul Ryan as his running mate is puzzling.

Mitt Romney is no more of a wimp than George H.W. Bush or John Kerry.

Romney says “We’re the party of people who want to get rich.”

By failing to respond adequately, Mitt Romney is letting his opponent define him for the voters. That could hurt him greatly in November.

The Koch brothers will spend more money in this election cycle than the entire McCain campaign did in 2008.

Mitt Romney’s intransigence over releasing more tax returns is politically stupid.

Democratic rhetoric since the Supreme Court decision on ObamaCare raises the question of whether they made a political mistake.

Three swing state poll results should be raising some real concerns among Team Romney today.

The President’s comment that the private sector is “doing fine” continues to be a topic of discussion.

The margin between Barack Obama and Mitt Romeny is razor-thin, and it’s likely to stay that way for quite some time.

There’s much to question about The Washington Post’s decision to run a 47 year old story about Mitt Romney.

Mitt Romney wimped out. Again.

Some blogger wants to pay someone to get Barack Obama’s college transcripts. It’s time for this silliness to end.

The day after President Obama expressed his personal support for gay marriage, a report has surfaced of his presumptive general election opponent engaging in a mean, anti-gay “prank” back in 1965.

The GOP’s response to the Obama campaign’s Osama bin Laden ad has not been helpful.

Some Navy SEALs are weighing in on the brouhaha.

We need a lot less fake empathy in politics.

Why isn’t Obama doing better in the polls and did we just see a Kinsey Gaffe in the wild?

A new poll shows the current level of GOP support in the Hispanic community.