Outside the Beltway

Why I supported Mitt Romney despite his constant flip-flopping, fibbing, and fecklessness.

It’s time to panic over anonymous guys in Philadelphia again, at least if you work at Fox News Channel.

In a silly quadrennial tradition, the residents of Dixville Notch, New Hampshire voted at midnight. It was a tie.

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

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

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

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

A recent poll has Obama and Romney tied among women. Another gives Obama a 33 point edge.

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

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

There’s little evidence that Presidential debates can be game changers.

Don’t hate the player, hate the game (more or less, anyway).

There are signs that some Romney supporters have already decided their candidate is going to lose.

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.

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.

Good journalism? Or, bad ethics?

Some Republicans are beginning to ponder what might happen to their party if Mitt Romney loses in 2012.

Republicans think they found the smoking gun of the 2012 election. They’re kidding themselves.

The President’s poll lead has shrunk, but there are still signs of trouble for Mitt Romney.

Three new state polls show that Mitt Romney’s path to victory continues to narrow.

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

If the first round of post-convention polling is correct, President Obama may be pulling away from Mitt Romney.

The President and his supporters say that Congressional Republicans will temper their rhetoric in a second Obama term. Don’t count on it.

After three days of buildup to a “mystery speaker,” the closing night of the Republican convention featured a rambling performance by Clint Eastwood and an empty chair.

The GOP claims to be a party that favors limited government, but its foreign policy positions reveal this to be little more than a lie.

Condoleeza Rice’s first trip onto the political stage was very successful last night. Where will she go from here?

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 GOP Platform will include an abortion plank that Todd Akin would love.