Outside the Beltway

Mike Huckabee is the latest Republican to tack up the banner against the so-called “elites.”

Charles Murray argues that the Tea Party is right to complain about out-of-touch elites.

Newsweek’s latest poll shows a boom in support for President Obama and the Democrats. It’s the only poll showing that, however.

The Tea Party movement doesn’t seem to have a coherent view on foreign policy. Which means that a Tea Party victory will just mean more of the same Republican neo-conservatism.

Tonight’s topics: The foreclosure mess, low GDP growth, and the world-wide Tea Party.

Voters head to the polls in thirteen days, and current indications are that they’ll be handing a big victory to the Republican Party.

Sarah Palin and the Tea Party aren’t as clueless as their detractors think.

Recklessness.

Tom Brokaw notices something peculiar about the campaign debates: Nobody’s talking about Iraq or Afghanistan.

Republicans greatly fear the government — when Democrats are in power. And vice versa.

Reason’s Meredith Bragg and Nick Gillespie have a pretty amusing rejoinder to the Obama administration’s attempts to smear the anonymous funding of television ads opposed to their agenda in a video titled “Who is Publius? or, Who’s Afraid of Anonymous Political Speech?”

The coalition of voters that propelled Barack Obama to an historic victory in 2008 is seemingly falling apart, and the President is reacting by blaming the voters.

If you’re looking for negative campaigning, personal insults, and all the other things that make American politics fun, look no further than Kentucky.

Sarah Palin is at the center of a divide within the GOP that could become larger even as the GOP comes closer to regaining control of Congress.

“Those who doubt that the failings of higher education in America have political consequences need only reflect on the quality of progressive commentary on the tea party movement.”

Jim Treacher has coined a new term, Oprahturfing, to describe wealthy celebrities funding attendance at political rallies. While clever, the concept of “Astroturfing” is being misused by both sides.

Last night’s one and only Nevada Senate Debate was an embarrassing affair all around, but it most likely sealed the electoral doom of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.

The Washington Post looks around and discovers that the Tea Party isn’t racist after all. Their bad, I guess.

Desperate Democrats demonize donors, facts be damned.

More bad news for Democrats as a new poll shows that voters are more likely to consider them extreme than Republicans.

Last night’s Delaware Senate debate was entertaining, but it’s unlikely to move the polls very much.

Harry Reid think it’s his Constitutional duty spend other people’s money and bring it home to Nevada. His constituents seem to have other ideas this year.

Are we facing a Sharia take-over?

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’s wife Virginia is under scrutiny ? Why ? Because she has a job.

Like Sarah Palin, Christine O’Donnell is no fan of the press.

Arnold Schwarzenegger predicts President Obama’s re-election. Historically, that’s the safe bet.

The Silent Majority Wants a Dictatorship Run by Thomas Friedman

Thomas Friedman engages in some early speculation about a serious third party presidential run. As usual, such speculation ignores the basic structures of American politics.

More on O’Donnell’s representation of her education in her own words.

Even with some key seats trending Democrat, Republicans are primed to take over both Houses of Congress come November 2.

Tonight’s topics: Democrats’ infighting, the continued Tea Party “takeover” of the GOP, the Obama administration’s following of its predecessor’s lead on executive power, and the degree to which America’s economic competition is fair.

Support for the Tea Party is at record levels but that movement does not have a coherent policy platform. Can the energy be harnessed to good use?

More than ever before in the past, Fox News Channel will be the exclusive medium through which many of the candidates for the 2012 Republican nomination communicate with the public. And that’s a problem.

Jack Conway is now only 2 points behind Tea Party favorite Rand Paul.

President Obama’s approval is at its lowest point to date, matching President Clinton’s in 1994. It’s 14 points higher than his predecessor’s.

Shepard Fairey, the artist behind the iconic HOPE poster, is disappointed with President Obama.

Tracking “freedom” and American defense spending provides some interesting insights.

The Republican “Pledge to America” is chock full of photographs of Real Americans. And they’re disproportionately old white people.