Outside the Beltway

Unless something changes, Obama remains the odds-on favorite to win.

The Romney Campaign is reportedly planning a more aggressive campaign against the President for the fall.

A true pioneer passed away today.

A pre-Convention look at the Electoral College map finds Mitt Romney in the same tight spot he’s been in for months now.

The Romney/Ryan ticket has gained grown in Wisconsin and Florida, and is steady in Ohio, but they’ve got a Medicare problem.

Heading into the party conventions, the Presidential race is as close as ever.

Maybe the real problem this year isn’t that the campaign is unduly nasty, but that it’s incredibly petty.

No, Barack Obama is not going to dump Joe Biden before the Democratic Convention.

Dan Balz summarizes what has been “A most poisonous campaign” and is likely to get much worse before it gets over.

Yesterday it became clear that the Presidential campaign is headed into the mud.

A group of former special operations and intelligence officers are criticizing President Obama for “Dishonorable Disclosures.”

Mitt Romney has effectively rebooted his campaign by picking Paul Ryan, but he’s also handed the President a powerful weapon.

Is the the 2012 Republican Presidential ticket? We’ll find out Saturday morning.

The most recent round of national polling seems to show that the negative attacks on Romney are having an impact.

President Obama still has the advantage in the battleground states.

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

Mitt Romney and other top Republicans are not taking part in the latest round of the culture war debate over same-sex marriage, for good reason.

Breaking: The American press often does a lousy job.

The Obama campaign is challenging an Ohio law that gives members of the military three extra days to vote. They have a very persuasive argument.

Three new polls show President Obama leading in three key battleground states.

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

Mitt Romney faces an uphill battle in trying to get to that magic number of 270 Electoral Votes.

As public education continues to wallow in the past, some parents are looking elsewhere for alternatives.

The NCAA more than lived up to the hype of “unprecedented” sanctions.

A Kafkaesque legal proceeding is unfolding in Kentucky.

Stephen Green projects the best case and minimal winning scenarios for Obama and Romney.

Virginia could be the state that decides who controls the United States Government.

By failing to respond adequately, Mitt Romney is letting his opponent define him for the voters. That could hurt him greatly in November.

The Koch brothers will spend more money in this election cycle than the entire McCain campaign did in 2008.

John Boehner speaks an inconvenient, for Mitt Romney at least, truth.

Mitt Romney and Barack Obama traded barbs over the June jobs report, but neither one seems to have the answer to our problems.

Three swing state poll results should be raising some real concerns among Team Romney today.

The election is about the economy. The economy is awful. Yet the incumbent still holds a slight lead.

More evidence of the extent to which Members of Congress have profited from the inside information they receive.

How dominant is the Southeastern Conference? It’s won more titles in the big sports since 2005 than all other conferences combined.