Outside the Beltway

The attempted coup against John Boehner resembled something you’d see in a banana republic.

Hell hath no fury like a Christie scorned.

Last January 1, some of us made a series of predictions. Here’s how we did.

One major factor in the skyrocketing cost of a college education in America is a huge increase in overhead costs.

The Republican leadership in the House suffered a big loss tonight:.

The latest offer from John Boehner includes a significant concession.

Will the massacre of twenty children in a Connecticut elementary school mark a turning point in America’s gun culture? Don’t count on it.

Democrats are approaching an “Electoral College lock.” Republicans are trying to pick it.

Pennsylvania Republicans want to do the right thing for the wrong reason.

House Speaker John Boehner has purged the body’s key financial committees of members of his caucus that didn’t toe the line.

Dean “Unskewed Polls” Chambers is back, and he’s as deluded as ever.

Republican opposition to same-sex marriage is costing it yet another demographic group.

The “makers vs takers,” “the 99 percent vs. the 1 percent,” and “53 percent vs. 47 percent” memes are getting tiresome.

Neither member of the Republican ticket seems to understand what really happened on Election Day.

As we approach the fiscal cliff, there are signs that House Republicans may not be as rigid as they were the past two years.

Barone tells some tales to make himself feel better.

Turning young voters into Young Republicans isn’t going to be an easy thing for the GOP to pull off.

The Democratic Party appears to have a lock on a substantial part of the Electoral College. That poses a problem for Republicans.

If the Romney campaign looked shocked on Election Night, that’s because they didn’t believe the polls either.

More griping about poor analysis.

The impact of outside spending on the election turned out to be far less consequential than many had feared.

I just came across Peggy Noonan’s pre-election column. It is quite illustrative.

The ink is barely dry on Barack Obama’s victory and some conservatives are already focusing blame on the Governor of New Jersey.

Wherein I get a bit petty (but to make a point and, maybe just because it amuses me).

Voters in four states endorsed marriage equality yesterday.

President Obama easily won re-election last night, carrying virtually all of the battleground states. Meanwhile, abortion, gay marriage, and recreational marijuana also won big.

There are still votes to be counted, and the Romney campaign has yet to concede, but the race is over and Barack Obama has been re-elected.

As most rational observers expected, President Obama has carried Pennsylvania, like every Democratic nominee four the last five cycles before him.

In just four day the UnSkewed prediction has moved Obamaward.

It’s time to panic over anonymous guys in Philadelphia again, at least if you work at Fox News Channel.

The GOP’s hopes of taking over the Senate in 2012 have all but slipped away, but there is another option.

Will Ohio’s Provisional Ballot’s be 2012’s version of the Hanging Chad?

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

Republicans already seem to be blaming Hurricane Sandy in the event Mitt Romney loses.