Outside the Beltway

The Romney campaign’s critique of the President’s foreign policy record is weak, and based on bad history.

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

The 2012 campaign is revealing once again that many conservatives have a view of President Obama not shared by the public at large.

If we are going to assess the “Reagan Question” then methinks some data would be helpful.

TechCrunch’s Alexia Tsotsis declares “Siri Is The New Clippy.”

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

No, Barack Obama is not going to dump Joe Biden before the Democratic Convention.

Yesterday it became clear that the Presidential campaign is headed into the mud.

There’s a wee bit more to the “Progressive defended my sister’s killer” story that went viral yesterday.

Matt Fisher’s post “My Sister Paid Progressive Insurance to Defend Her Killer In Court” is going viral.

Both campaigns seem to be focusing on an argument that the voters don’t want to hear.

The Obama campaign has begun to respond to the addition of Paul Ryan to the Republican ticket.

Once again, people are demanding to see Barack Obama’s college transcripts for no good reason.

Because of a culture where being first is more important than being right, ABC News made a few mistakes in its Friday morning coverage of the Colorado shootings.

President Obama set off a firestorm by claiming business owners didn’t build “that.”

The Romney campaign has apparently decided to be more aggressive in its attacks on the President, which poses serious risks for the campaign.

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

Once again people are saying that 2012 is an election year akin to 1860 or 1932. Once again, they are wrong.

Looking back on the GOP nomination fight, it’s rather obvious that the media overplayed the idea that there was ever a real race going on.

The debate over whether the PPACA’s individual mandate is a “penalty” or a “tax”seems rather pointless.

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

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

Jonathan Chait makes an astute observation about the media’s role in meme generation.

The crack investigative team at BuzzFeed is living up to its name with a story headlined “Did President Obama Just Make A Blowjob Joke?”

The arguments behind the Paycheck Fairness Act do not hold up to scrutiny.

Bill Clinton is the latest Democrat to defend private equity, and Mitt Romney’s business record. It would appear this meme is on its last legs.

An Internet meme that Robert Mugabe has been named UN Tourism Ambassador is untrue.

Figuring out how much of the opposition to a black president is based on racism is . . . complicated.

A North Carolina teacher screamed and cursed at students for criticizing President Obama.

The “Clinton-Biden Switcheroo” Scenario is the pundit’s fantasy that will not die.

The people who gave us the “war on Christmas” are now touting an upsurge on black-on-white crime.

An object lesson in the problems with our intellectual property laws

Another example of Republican foreign policy taking precedence over fiscal conservatism.

Mitt Romney has a big problem. People don’t seem to like him very much.

Phony wars on Stay At Home Moms, dogs, and Osama bin Laden. The Obama campaign is pointing at the shiny object, and the right is falling for it.

Last week, an absurd campaign became even more absurd.

Thanks to a media that focuses obsessively on irrelevancies, we now have a permanent political silly season.

We need a lot less fake empathy in politics.

Picking the wrong target.

The Romney campaign is pushing back on the “Republican War on Women” meme with this infographic on “Women & The Obama Economy.”

Facts are stubborn things.

Once again, the punditocracy seems to have misread the voting public.