Outside the Beltway

All signs are that Michele Bachmann is running for president. What impact will she have on the race?

With Huckabee out, the right side of the GOP primary base may end up divided. And that will help Mitt Romney.

With co-frontrunner Mike Huckabee out, Mitt Romney looks stronger than ever.

It’s Campaign Fact of Life No. 1: If you aren’t a factor in the race, you aren’t going to get free media.

Mike Huckabee’s decision not to run has shaken up the GOP field for 2012.

A respected liberal blogger thinks Sarah Palin and Donald Trump are the most appalling Americans of our time.

President Obama is vulnerable, but he’s facing a GOP field that is underwhelming even for Republicans.

Charles Krauthammer called Donald Trump the “Al Sharpton” of the GOP presidential primary contest

For the first time, Donald Trump is leading a poll for the GOP 2012 nomination. That’s bad news for the GOP.

Donald Trump has been surging in polls of Republican voters recently, but that doesn’t mean much of anything.

Can a candidate appealing enough to the base to win the Republican nomination beat Obama?

Michele Bachmann raised more money in the First Quarter of 2011 than any other Republican. Which means that she’ll have to be taken seriously if she decides to run for President.

The next week promises to be a battle between John Boehner and the Tea Party over whether or not compromise is a good idea.

The race for the 2012 Republican nomination is missing the one thing that GOP nomination battles have almost always had, a frontrunner.

They say anyone can grow up to be president. Michele Bachmann is apparently taking them at their word.

Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann is beginning to more like a real candidate for President. She won’t win, but she will be entertaining.

All of the plausible Republican contenders for 2012 have significant downsides.

Mitt Romney starts his 2012 run as the frontrunner for the Republican nomination. But, in reinventing himself yet again, the “authenticity” issue that troubled many of us in 2008 looms again.

Polls matching President Obama against potential Republican contenders are entertaining but not informative.

Ron Paul has won the CPAC straw poll for a second straight year. But YAF has voted him off its board over his opposition to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

While most Americans consider themselves “conservatives,” some conservatives exclude most Americans from the definition.

The GOP is facing a battle between its fiscal conservatism and i’s military adventurism.

Michele Bachmann’s TEA Party response to SOTU 2011 was embarrassingly bad.

It’s straw poll season already. First up, New Hampshire where things turned out about how you’d expect them to considering Mitt Romney lives there now.

The relationships between inflammatory rhetoric and political violence is complicated.