Outside the Beltway

An attempt to declare the filibuster unconstitutional has ended in failure.

Obsessive media coverage makes us believe mass shootings are far more common than they actually are.

Actress Ashley Judd is reportedly considering a run for the United States Senate.

Voters in four states endorsed marriage equality yesterday.

The 2012 Election promises to be close in the Popular Voter, but President Obama still retains an Electoral College advantage.

The Romney campaign doesn’t seem too confident of its path to victory.

The OTB gang give their best guess at the outcome of the 2012 presidential contest.

Making note of some of the predictions and such as we approach November 6th.

The Pew poll is no longer an outlier but the start of a trend.

Mitt Romney has gotten a bump in the polls from Wednesday debate, but it’s still too early to say if it means anything.

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

Just as we saw in 2008, the conservative base doesn’t want to hear their nominee saying that the President is a basically decent man.

The Romney campaign infighting is becoming public.

In a radio interview last week, Paul Ryan claimed to have run a sub-3 hour marathon. He did no such thing.

A legal setback for the Texas Voter ID law, but not much of a political setback for Voter ID laws in general.

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

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

Moderate Republicans in the House are starting to become more assertive in voicing their frustrations with how Congress is operating.

Electing Romney hardly means repeal of the PPACA, even if he will make it sound that way.

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

Illinois wants to solve its Medicaid problem by hoping its citizens smoke more cigarettes.

Ilya Shapiro asks, “If luxury stadiums were hugely profitable, why would the savvy businessmen who own the teams let the politicians in on the windfall?”

Common Cause has filed a specious lawsuit alleging that the filibuster is unconstitutional.

The Oval Office is nothing like a corporate boardroom.

Ron Paul’s supporters are racking up delegate wins at party conventions in caucus states, but it won’t matter in the end.

Now that Rick Santorum is out of the race, what happens to his delegates?

When will Santorum bow to the inevitable?