Outside the Beltway

Obama has an advantage in what is likely to be one of the most important states in November’s election, but the race is far from over.

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

Yesterday, the campaign silly season got particularly silly.

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.

Rick Santorum won the night, but Mitt Romney continues to win the delegate hunt.

A poll commissioned by the Alabama Education Association shows Mitt Romney with a rather surprising 10 point lead in the Heart of Dixie.

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

Foster Friess, Rick Santorum’s money guy, probably shouldn’t be his media guy.

If the reaction at this year’s CPAC is any indication, Mitt Romney still has some work to do to seal up his party’s base.

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.”

Stephen Colbert’s super PAC, Americans for a Better Tomorrow, Tomorrow, has raised a little over a million dollars.

The truth about a Second Obama Term is that it likely wouldn’t be all that remarkable.

Last night, South Carolina was Gingrich Country.

Mitt Romney has stumbled this week, and may pay for it tomorrow, but he’s still the only candidate with a realistic chance to win the Republican nomination.

The race in South Carolina is going down to the wire.

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.

Things are tightening up among the Republican candidates in the Palmetto State.

Mitt Romney is taking heat for his role at Bain Capital. He shouldn’t.

Watching last night’s debate, you would have been surprised to learn that Mitt Romney has any real opponents in the Republican race.

Executive summary: She’s a kook unfit to serve as dog catcher, much less leader of the free world.

Grover Norquist has become the target of blame for problems that are far more deep than just one man.

Two candidates face a test tonight.

Another round of rumors is out claiming that Chris Christie is thinking about running for President.

The treasurer behind “Rick Parry with an ‘A’ for America” has left to work with Rick Perry

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.