Outside the Beltway

Purity for profit on display.

The likelihood of any action on gun control in 2014 is extremely limited

Is Mike Huckabee about to re-enter politics in a big way?

The 10th anniversary of McCain-Feingold teaches a lesson we should already have learned.

TIME says Cuccinelli vs. McAuliffe is “The Dirtiest, Nastiest, Low-Down Campaign In America.”

The Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether limits on contributions to political candidates is Constitutional.

The Republican Party needs more than outreach to Hispanics to become a viable national party again.

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

It’s looking less likely that the GOP will be able to gain control of the Senate.

As the final stretch of the campaign begins in earnest, Mitt Romney faces a very difficult task.

Mitt Romney is showing signs that the negative attacks from the Obama camp are getting to him.

While the Supreme Court’s decision in Citizens United has been blamed for the massive increase in money in this year’s campaign, it really wasn’t the culprit.

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

Far from being deterimental, there is a case to be made that SuperPACs have actually expended democracy during this election cycle.

Despite how it many have seemed in January, Ron Paul’s 2012 Presidential effort is ending just about the same way his 2008 effort did.

Billionaires have been free to donate as much money as they want to activist groups since the dawn of the Republic.

An odd meme’s developing that Mitt Romney’s campaign is in financial trouble.

The Obama Campaign is being criticized for agreeing to play the SuperPAC game like everyone else does.

Virtually everything Stephen Colbert is doing was legal before Citizens United.

Once again, the punditocracy is bemoaning the rise of so-called “negative campaigning.”

Mitt Romney made a suggestion about how to fix our campaign finance system. It’s a good idea.

Mitt Romney’s rivals scored a few hits on him last night, but nothing that’s likely to make a difference.

Are America’s political parties become irrelevant?

Will 2012 be the Republican version of the 2008 race between President Obama and Hillary Clinton?

The Obama campaign is stressing that 98 percent of its donations were from little guys contributing $250 or less. But 40 percent of the money came from a handful of major donors.

The Stephen Colbert Super PAC that began as a satire has now been blessed by the real FEC. What exactly this means is not yet clear.

Stephen Colbert has been running an ongoing shtick in which he’s trying to start a political action committee, gets letters from his Viacom bosses poo-pooing the idea, and then inviting his lawyer on to explain ways to get around these concerns.