Outside the Beltway

Was Rick Perry the worst candidate to run in the 2012 cycle? It certainly appears so.

Less than two weeks after he lost the election, the GOP is acting as if Mitt Romney never existed.

Some people on the right apparently want to return to this map.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Why is Romney bragging on education policies a Democrat would love?

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

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

Mitt Romney’s speech at VMI today was billed as a major foreign policy address, but it was incredibly light on substance.

Too little, too late?

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

A new study looks at the reasons why people are so belligerent in their online communications.

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

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

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.

Now that he is on the ballot for good, Republicans seem to be giving Todd Akin a second look. That seems unwise.

Mitt Romney’s 2011 tax return has “USA” in the space for “Foreign country name.” Requests for his birth certificate will surely follow.

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

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

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

So, Mitt Romney opened his mouth again.

My latest for The Atlantic, “What Would Romney’s Foreign Policy Look Like?” has posted.

As the final stretch of the campaign begins in earnest, Mitt Romney faces a very difficult task.

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

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

Obama heads into his convention in a good position, but with several potential pitfalls in his path.

I give it a C+/B- (adequate, passing, nothing exceptional).