Outside the Beltway

The GOP is set to approve rules changes that will impact the 2016 primaries, and beyond. They’re a good start.

Mitt Romney continues to have serious problems getting people to like him.

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.

Mitt Romney’s intransigence over releasing more tax returns is politically stupid.

Several conservatives are touting a poll that purports to show a 22 point drop in support for Obama by Jewish voters in New York. Is it believable?

If not Hillary Clinton or Joe Biden, who might the Democrats have to choose from in 2016?

Was money the reason Scott Walker won on Tuesday? The available evidence says no.

Mitt Romney gained some ground in Swing State polling, but that just makes clear how narrow his path to 270 Electoral Votes actually is.

Republican politicians have largely avoided the topic of same-sex marriage since President Obama’s announcement. Why?

Will Twitter impact the 2012 elections? The evidence seems thin that it will.

Some Republicans see the light on same-sex marriage. Whether the party will listen is another question.

Rick Santorum is urging Mitt Romney to go all-in on opposition to same-sex marriage. Not surprisingly, this is bad advice.

A blog post lampooning black studies dissertations got a writer fired, setting off a controversy over the limits of free speech.

Republicans should have listened to Mitch Daniels, because he was right.

Despite their rhetoric, there would be few differences between a Romney Administration and an Obama Administration when it comes to foreign policy.

Get ready for a long, painful ordeal at the end of which we’re supposed to pick a President.

Fox, Rasmussen, and Gallup show Romney slightly ahead of Obama. I’m willing to call it a trend.

Thanks to a media that focuses obsessively on irrelevancies, we now have a permanent political silly season.

Republican Mitt Romney leads President Obama 46-44 in the latest Fox News poll of registered voters.

Further cementing his reputation as a sleaze bag, Newt Gingrich is now renting out the private information of his donors.

What would have happened if Sarah Palin had decided to run for the Republican nomination this year?

We may have Rick Santorum to deal with in 2016.

Now that Rick Santorum is out of the race, what happens to his delegates?

The Washington Post prematurely posted that Rick Santorum was dropping out of the race on its news wire and Bloomberg made the story viral while the Post was verifying its accuracy.

We won’t have Rick Santorum to kick around anymore.

OTB’s comment section as a microcosm of the American political landscape.

Republican leaders seem resigned to a second Obama term. Here’s why it’s no slam dunk.

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

The race is over, Rick Santorum just won’t admit it.