Archive for April 2013
The Longest-Held Republican US Senate Seats
Kansas, Idaho, Utah, and Wyoming claim seven of the Top 10 spots on the list.
Read MoreAppointment for Defeat? Schatz Could Lose Hawaii Senate Seat
More than two-thirds of the 190 appointed U.S. Senators since 1913 have not been elected to their seat the next time it was on the ballot.
Read MoreGathering of the Presidents: Trivia Edition
Who was the last president to serve without any living ex-presidents? Who lived to see the most subsequent presidents? Who saw the most presidents die while in office?
Read MoreCT, IL, MN Gubernatorial Races: From 2010 Nail-Biters to 2014 Snoozers?
Since 1900, there have been 18 candidates elected governor by less than one percentage point who won reelection the next cycle by double-digits; could Dan Malloy, Mark Dayton, and Pat Quinn do the same in 2014?
Read MoreBaucus Retirement Opens Up 2nd Longest Democratic-Held Senate Seat
It has been 36,577 days (March 3, 1913) since the last time a Republican sat in Montana’s Class II U.S. Senate seat, behind only Louisiana’s Class II seat (47,534 days, March 3, 1883).
Read MoreWhat Are Mark Dayton’s True Reelection Odds?
Prognosticators list the Minnesota gubernatorial seat as ‘safe’ for the incumbent in 2014; history suggests the odds are just shy of that.
Read MoreOff the Radar? Chechnya Never Mentioned in Public by Obama
Bill Clinton and George W. Bush discussed the troubled region nearly 100 times over a 10-year period that saw two Chechen wars and high-profile terrorist acts that killed several hundred Russians.
Read MoreObama Has Mentioned Terrorism Nearly 1,500 Times as President
Although accused by some of being too gun-shy in using the term, the president has mentioned terrorism (and terror-derived words) an average of one time per day while in office.
Read MoreBachmann Fundraising Falls 61 Percent from 2011
Minnesota’s famous congresswoman sees her campaign receipts dip by over $1 million compared to the same three-month period during the previous election cycle.
Read MoreJoe Miller, You Will Be Challenged
Fifty-one Republican candidates have run in the 19 Alaska U.S. Senate primaries conducted since 1960.
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