Outside the Beltway

Three swing state poll results should be raising some real concerns among Team Romney today.

Will winning a championship finally overshadown “The Decision” and erase the NBA’s best player’s reputation as a choke artist?

GQ has a great look back at the 1992 USA Olympic basketball team titled “The Dream Will Never Die: An Oral History of the Dream Team.”

The crack investigative team at BuzzFeed is living up to its name with a story headlined “Did President Obama Just Make A Blowjob Joke?”

While the news media is focused on sixteen battleground states, the professionals running the Obama and Romney campaigns are focused on a much narrower list.

The margin between Barack Obama and Mitt Romeny is razor-thin, and it’s likely to stay that way for quite some time.

How about we recognize that we do have ongoing and serious racial tension in this country rather than ignoring the issue most of the time and only deploying it when the game of politics is being played?

Some Marine women are going to Infantry Officers Course. Here’s how to make it work.

Time to prepare yourself for the incoming deluge of polling.

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

Republicans are finally starting to realize that they are in trouble with Hispanic voters.

Can Wall Street predict the outcome of Presidential elections? Not really.

Rising fuel prices are starting to hurt the President in the polls, but it’s unclear what that means for November.

A new poll shows the current level of GOP support in the Hispanic community.

A new poll shows just how badly the GOP is doing among Hispanic voters.

At least some of Mitt Romney”s investment money sits in offshore accounts in the Cayman Islands. Does it matter?

Not surprisingly, Rick Perry’s effort to get on Virginia’s primary ballot via litigation has failed

A comment on the commentariat.

A lesson in why the topline poll numbers are often only the beginning of the puzzle.

The Postal Service announced another round of service cutbacks today that are likely to just make the rapidity of its decline increase

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

Contrary to popular belief, college athletes graduate at a much higher rate than other students.

Everyone’s talking about jobs again. And it’s not a pretty picture.

Ronald Reagan’s chief economist has a radical plan for solving the housing crisis.

A complexity of social policy is the need for universality. This is why pure market models are incompatible with government action.

Beginning with “BREAKING: Witnesses reporting screams and gunfire heard inside Capitol building,” a series of tweets with the #CongressHostage hashtag have been decidedly unfunny.

President Obama would like to sell you something.

Rick Perry has faltered, and that has given Mitt Romney an opening.

Top Democrats are starting to voice public concerns about 2012.

Whether it’s a “Ponzi Scheme” or not, Social Security has serious systemic problems that must be addressed.

The Sarah Palin bloom seems to be off the rose.

With most of the public looking at the future and not seeing anything good, the President is suffering

Workers account for 80% of the Postal Service budget vs. 53% at UPS and 32% at FedEx.

How a six hour long dispute over scheduling demonstrates yet again that Barack Obama isn’t up for the fight.

Rick Perry is leading the GOP field in Iowa, but there are warning signs for Republicans as a whole if you look deeper.

Money isn’t the only benefit some receive for their work.

Watching the news and reading the op-eds makes it clear: America is doomed.

The agenda of the Tea Party movement doesn’t necessarily coincide with what voters say they want from Washington.

One year ago, Timothy Geithner said them things about the economy he probably wishes he could take back right now.

The two Minnesotans in the Presidential race are starting to trade barbs.

David Brooks is mad as hell and he’s not gonna take it anymore.