Outside the Beltway

Right now the situation in Florida is Advantage: Romney. But, will it last after tonight’s debate?

Have Americans divided themselves into what are becoming increasingly different cultures?

The speech did exactly what it was supposed to do: kick off Obama’s re-election campaign while disguised as a call for unity.

Last night, South Carolina was Gingrich Country.

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A Selection Of Speaker Gingrich’s Thoughts Over The Years

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

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

Republicans are rallying behind their eventual nominee.

After having so much influence in 2010, the Tea Party is finding itself adrift in the search for a Republican nominee in 2012.

If the Right clings to the belief that President Obama isn’t just wrong, but evil, it will likely end up handing the election to him.

A good night for Romney, a surprising showing for Ron Paul, and the first steps toward the end of the race for the Republican nomination.

Can anyone bring the primary debate schedule under control?

The former Utah governor will almost certainly never be the GOP nominee. But someone like him will be soon.

There seems to be very little stopping a big night for Mitt Romney next Tuesday.

The Republican candidates for President have apparently forgotten that this guy was their party’s nominee twice.

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

Yet another clue about what’s going on in the Hawkeye State.

Facing his own Tea Party challenge, Richard Lugar reminds Republicans of an uncomfortable truth.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has set the House GOP adrift.

Some Republicans are starting to realize just how badly the House GOP has messed up this time.

The House GOP doesn’t seem to have any idea what it’s doing right now.

Welcome technological change, or crony capitalism?

Not surprisingly, people who are politically involved tend to be the ones that politicians listen to.

Gingrich has some pretty radical ideas about separation of powers.

South Carolina governor Nikki Haley becomes the latest Tea Party darling to back Mitt Romney.

With Gingrich surging in the polls, the pundit class has gotten out the long knives.

The former Speaker has the biggest lead of any candidate thus far in the race for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination.

Newt Gingrich is leading the GOP field, but losing to President Obama, but Republican voters don’t seem to care.

Time Magazine has chosen “The Protester” as its Person Of The Year. Let the outrage ensue.

More in common than they might think.

Yesterday’s encounter between Jon Huntsman and Newt Gingrich was less than it could have been.

Newt Gingrich is looking really good in the Hawkeye State right now.

Gingrich is rising in the polls for reasons that help him in the primary race, but may hurt in a General Election.

Could Newt Gingrich really become the Republican nominee? Stranger things have happened.

Is the Cain Train finally running out of steam?

Expect plenty of GOP infighting if President Obama is re-elected next November.