Archive for 2020
Indiana Democrats Hit Rock Bottom in 2020 Gubernatorial Race
The party set multiple unwanted records in this year’s election for governor.
Read MoreBiden Breaks Democratic Party Records in 4 States
The former VP also turned in the best showing by any Democratic nominee since LBJ in nine states.
Read MoreThe Glass Isn’t Even Half Full
Tina Smith’s reelection victory with 48.7 percent marked a nation-leading 12th time that Minnesotans elected a U.S. Senator with a plurality of the vote in the direct election era. Smith also became the fourth plurality-winning U.S. Senate nominee in Minnesota in the 21st Century following Mark Dayton in 2000 (48.8 percent), Norm Coleman in 2002…
Read MoreThe Biden Bump Out West
Alaska and Utah are two of the nine states where Republican presidential nominees have won 14 consecutive elections since 1968. Joe Biden, however, scored the best showing in these two Western states since Lyndon Johnson’s landslide victory there in 1964. In Alaska, Biden won 42.8 percent – slightly besting Hubert Humphrey’s 42.7 percent in 1968…
Read MoreHas Kansas Become a Bluer State Than Missouri?
For the first time in history, a Democratic nominee for president received a larger percentage of the vote in Kansas than in the Show-Me State.
Read MoreWisconsin Reigns As the Plurality King
The Badger State has the highest percentage of casting its Electoral College votes for a plurality winner of any state in the nation.
Read MoreGeorgia Democrats Eye US Senate Electoral Rarity
Only two times in U.S. Senate history have both incumbents from the same state been unseated in the same cycle.
Read MoreTwo-Thirds of States to Have Governor and US Senators from One Party
Democrats or Republicans controlled both offices in just 28 states following the 2014 election.
Read More117th Congress Will Have Fewest Split US Senate Delegations in History
The chamber will see a record low in the direct election era, even if each party wins a seat in Georgia.
Read MoreLibertarian Gubernatorial Nominees Set Record Highs in Four States
The nation’s third largest party continues to make bigger footprints in multiple statewide races.
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