Outside the Beltway

A positive political climate for immigration reform.

A good start toward solving a long standing problem.

Marco Rubio has some good immigration reform ideas. Will his fellow Republicans listen to him?

Charlie Crist, run out of the Republican Party, is now a Democrat.

Guess who’s back?

Many conservatives are living inside of a media bubble and they’ll continue to have problems until the consciously decide to break out of it.

The Republican Party needs more than outreach to Hispanics to become a viable national party again.

Republicans are starting to talk about immigration reform, but do they really mean it?

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

The 2012 Election should be a warning to the GOP that it needs to open itself up to minority groups, especially Latinos.

President Obama easily won re-election last night, carrying virtually all of the battleground states. Meanwhile, abortion, gay marriage, and recreational marijuana also won big.

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

It’s just a few days until the 2012 campaign ends, and the jostling for position for 2016 begins.

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

Whether Republicans like it or not, Mitt Romney was the best candidate they had in 2012.

Understandably, Republicans are becoming nervous about the way things are going for Team Romney.

A new round of polling has Obama in the lead and shows reasons why Romney’s supporters should be concerned, but it’s unclear how long any of this will last.

Not surprisingly, Romney campaigns staffers don’t seem to want to take responsibility for Clint Eastwood’s performance last night.

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

Jeb Bush continues to speak the truth on the GOP’s position on immigration issues. Sadly, his fellow Republicans aren’t listening.

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

“To Be Announced” has a prime speaking slot late in the Thursday program.

The former Republican governor of Florida says his former party is so extreme that it holds positions he held two years ago.

The quadrennial political conventions have become, long, boring, tedious, and largely predetermined. It’s time to shake things up by making them a lot shorter.

Rob Portman, Bob McDonnell, and Brian Sandoval yield the biggest Electoral College advantage.

Marco Rubio wants to prevent these young women, and other Olympic medal winners, from paying taxes. It’s a dumb idea.

Another poll demonstrates the serious problems that the GOP has with Latino voters.

There are some indications that Mitt Romney may be ready to announce his running mate selection as early as this week.

The Veepstakes doesn’t matter nearly as much as the media tells you it does.

President Obama’s immigration policy shift is legal, it’s good policy, but bypassing Congress won’t solve our immigration problems.

Republican reaction to the President’s immigration policy announcement has been relatively muted, and it’s likely to stay that way.

Frustrated by its inability to get laws passed through Congress, the Obama administration has decided to stop following laws already passed by Congress.

If not Hillary Clinton or Joe Biden, who might the Democrats have to choose from in 2016?

The GOP has a serious problem with the Latino vote, and it may too late to fix it.

We may have Rick Santorum to deal with in 2016.

Republicans are finally starting to realize that they are in trouble with Hispanic voters.