Outside the Beltway

Yet more evidence that this is shaping up to be a very close election.

The Secretary of State is ignoring a hold by the House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairwoman.

If you listen to the punditocracy, you’d think that there’s actually a doubt as to who the GOP nominee will be.

A study of religiosity and young adults found that those who attend college are actually less likely to experience religious decline than those who do not attend college.

Mitt Romney has stumbled this week, and may pay for it tomorrow, but he’s still the only candidate with a realistic chance to win the Republican nomination.

Barack Obama now looks to the Rough Rider himself for inspiration. Can’t he find it himself?

Newt Gingrich is looking really good in the Hawkeye State right now.

Stranger things have happened.

A new poll appears to show Newt Gingrich surging in New Hampshire, but there are several caveats to take into account.

Gary Johnson is right to be upset that he’s been excluded from debates, but he shouldn’t get the government involved.

The most disturbing part of Saturday’s debate came when most of the GOP candidates endorsed torture.

CBS accidentally admits that they are giving less attention to some of the Republican contenders.

Huntsman will gain little if any traction and none of the frontrunners really helped or hurt themselves.

The Republican candidates for President have been mostly silent about foreign policy issues. That changes starting tonight.

Last night, most of the leading Republican candidates for President acted as if Europe was on another planet.

Herman Cain’s bizarre loyalty to his Campaign Director is one of the reasons he is unfit to be President.

The partisan crowds like President Obama’s populist rhetoric but it seems ill-suited for his re-election strategy.

When the old rules don’t apply anymore, the system breaks down.

The President’s jobs push isn’t doing much to help his job approval numbers so far.

State-level job approval numbers seem to suggest that the President could have Electoral College worries in 2012.

The reviews are in on the debt negotiations, and the public isn’t happy.

President Obama and Congressional Republicans have the outline of a deal to raise the debt limit past the 2012 elections.

The electoral map should be making the Obama 2012 camp just a little bit nervous.

As the Republican leadership reaches a deal with President Obama, the biggest stumbling block may be the newest members of their own coalition.

The participants in the debt negotiations are being led by constituencies that have little interest in compromise.

The US handing Libya over to NATO is “like Beyonce saying she’s ceding control to Sasha Fierce!” – Jon Stewart

The Senate Republican leader is running a shrewd political game. But what’s good for the GOP is bad for America.

Talks about a deal to raise the debt ceiling seem pretty close to collapse now that there are no Republicans involved.

For the first time since the end of World War II, the GOP is wrestling with two diametrically opposed visions of foreign affairs.

Our long national nightmare is nearly over.

Fox News chairman Roger Ailes has come to regret the direction he took the network after the 2008 election.

President Obama’s approval numbers shot up after Osama bin Laden was killed two weeks ago. They’ve already settled back to where they were