Outside the Beltway

Donald Trump speaks largely just to his base, ignoring the nation as a whole. Whether this will be enough to win re-election in 2020 is an open question.

To listen to many of the Republican candidates for President, it would appear that the lights have been turned out on Ronald Reagan’s shining city on a hill.

Ohio Governor John Kasich looks good on paper, but his campaign seems as though it’s unlikely to get out of the starting gate.

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

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

Matthew Dowd asks: What happens in an election when two candidates who are each unelectable run against each other in the fall?

Christiane Amanpour, who’s losing audience share for ABC’s “This Week” Sunday show, may be on her way back to CNN.

Stranger things have happened.

While most of the Republican field was at the Iowa State Fair, Rick Perry was in South Carolina shaking up the field.

A study shows that most national columnists and talking heads are about as accurate as a coin flip.