Outside the Beltway

Newsweek’s latest poll shows a boom in support for President Obama and the Democrats. It’s the only poll showing that, however.

Voters head to the polls in thirteen days, and current indications are that they’ll be handing a big victory to the Republican Party.

MSNBC.com is contemplating a name change to distinguish their brand from that of a left-leaning cable news channel.

Responding to the rant that got Rick Sanchez fired, Slate’s Brian Palmer investigates the question, “Do Jews Really Control the Media?” His short answer, “Maybe the movies, but not the news.”

Stephen J. Cannel, the man behind “The Rockford Files” and “The A-Team,” had died at 69.

A new Gallup poll shows President Obama beating Hillary Clinton in a hypothetical 2012 Democratic nomination fight. Nobody should be surprised by that.

Support for the Tea Party is at record levels but that movement does not have a coherent policy platform. Can the energy be harnessed to good use?

President Obama’s recent comments about the D.C. Public Schools should raise a few eyebrows.

White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel is leaving his job at week’s end to run for mayor of Chicago.

More than ever before in the past, Fox News Channel will be the exclusive medium through which many of the candidates for the 2012 Republican nomination communicate with the public. And that’s a problem.

A Vanity Fair piece imagines what John Lennon’s life would have been like had he survived an assassin’s bullet.

Let’s go to the numbers in Delaware.

Taking a short trip back in time via Instapundit’s archives reveals a September 11th post that turned out to be prophetic.

According to Gallup, there was a ten point move in the public’s preference on the Generic Congressional Ballot between last week and this week. What’s more likely is that Gallup is making a mistake somewhere.

As the mid-term elections enter their final eight weeks, there’s more bad news for Democrats.

The first ad of the 2012 presidential cycle has aired, by some dentist touting Hillary Clinton. She’s not running. Could she?

Glenn Beck’s “Restoring Honor” rally raises, yet again, the tiresome fight over crowd estimates and their political significance.

A rule allowing only white students to run for class president at a Mississippi middle school has been quickly changed after the Internet brought attention to it.

Rick Lazio is running for Governor of New York and he’s found an issue in the so-called “Ground Zero Mosque,” but it doesn’t seem to be helping him in the polls.

A year ago, President Obama was emphatically against raising taxes during the recession — even on the rich.

The Sturgis or Bust Edition OTB Caption Contest^TM is now over.

Shockingly, the Tea Party as a generic movement is more popular than congressional leadership. Interestingly, the Democrats are still slightly more popular than the Tea Party and the Reps are in third.

According to a new MSNBC/Wall Street Journal poll, the public that will head to the polls in November is increasingly gloomy and pessimistic.

Conservatives seem very eager for Hillary Clinton to get back on the campaign trial, but it’s not going to happen.

Last night’s preseason opener between the Dallas Cowboys and the Cincinnati Bengals was the worst sports broadcast I’ve ever seen, barring any recent Olympics.

Sarah Palin tweeted, and took the wrong side in a story that doesn’t even deserve to be a controversy.

Vice-President Biden glances into the future and sees a relatively good year for Democrats. Is he right ?

When it comes to opinions about Sarah Palin, there is a striking difference between Republicans and Americans in general.

Should outrageous people like Pamela Gellar be invited to spread their message on national television?

A common sense decision on broadcast “decency” standards was handed down by a Federal Appeals Court today.

Will LeBron James’s departure push upset Ohioans to the right ?

One year ago today, Sarah Palin resigned as Governor of Alaska after only 2 1/2 years in office.

The latest poll trends have pollster Charlie Cook thinking that the Democrats could be in for a very bad trouncing on Election Day.

Honest pollsters should deposit their raw data with the Roper Center to improve transparency.

“Endorsed by Sarah Palin” could become something that Democrats start using in negative campaign commercials.

Another poll brings bad news for the White House.

President Obama has relieved General Stanley Chrystal of command of ISAF.

General McChrystal and company spilled their guts to Rolling Stone on a road trip during which they were imbibing steadily.

The actress best known for her role as Blanche Deveraux on “The Golden Girls” has died of a stroke.