Archive for 2015
Slam Dunk: Will 36 Record Presidential Winning Streaks Continue in 2016?
Three-dozen states are currently in the midst of their longest Democratic or Republican presidential winning streaks.
Read MorePresidential Winning Streaks in Minnesota and Virginia
Meet the only two states that have backed both Republican and Democratic presidential nominees in at least 10 consecutive cycles since statehood (though in different eras).
Read MorePresidents’ Day Special: It’s A Good Time to Be An Ex-President
The nation has had four living ex-presidents for the last six-plus years for just the second time in history; the current gap of eight-plus years in presidential deaths is the ninth longest on record.
Read MoreUndesirable Exits: Not All Long-Serving Governors Went Out On Their Own Terms
Forty percent of the longest-serving governors in U.S. history left office far short of a storybook ending.
Read MoreWhich States Are Likely to Split Their Presidential-US Senate Vote in 2016?
States have split their ballot only 29 percent of the time in presidential and U.S. Senate elections over the last century; 6% in NC, 11% in WI and 16% in IL (key 2016 battlegrounds).
Read MoreSix for Thirteen
Collin Peterson remarked last month that he is leaning to run for reelection to Minnesota’s 7th Congressional District in 2016. If he does and is victorious, he will creep even closer to the top of the list of the longest-serving…
Read MoreCould Scott Walker Become Wisconsin’s Strongest Presidential Candidate in History?
No Wisconsin presidential candidate has won more than two primaries or more than 41 delegates at a major party’s national convention.
Read MoreKitzhaber Resignation Would Make History in Oregon
No Oregon governor has ever exited office before the end of his term under a cloud of scandal.
Read MoreGoing Home? Joe Manchin Eyes Rare Electoral Feat in 2016
In 2016, West Virginia Democrat Joe Manchin may become just the sixth former governor in the last 100 years who then won a U.S. Senate seat only to return to his gubernatorial post.
Read MoreLindsey Graham and a Brief History of South Carolina Presidential Candidates
On more than a dozen attempts, South Carolinian presidential candidates have withdrawn before their party’s convention, failed to win their party’s nomination, or fallen short in the Electoral College vote.
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