Archive for February 2022
Jim Inhofe’s US Senate Tenure By the Numbers
Inhofe is one of six current members of the chamber to have notched record-setting service from their state.
Read MoreNation’s Largest U.S. House Special Election Drought to End in Minnesota
Minnesota has held 176 elections for the nation’s lower legislative chamber since its last special – most in the nation.
Read MoreRemembering The Earliest of Birds
On this day four years ago, Maryland Democratic U.S. Representative John Delaney was already 205 days deep into his 2020 presidential campaign – by far the earliest campaign launch by a bona fide major party candidate during the primary era. Delaney announced his campaign on July 28, 2017 – some 1,194 days prior to the…
Read MoreOhio U.S. Senate Primaries By the Numbers
The 2022 GOP primary is poised for its first competitive race in more than half a century and first winner shy of 40 percent in 60 years.
Read MoreDivided We Stand? Minnesota Eyes Two More Years of Divided Government After 2022
Minnesota has had unified partisan control of the governorship and legislature for just two of the last 31+ years.
Read MoreParty Like It’s 2008?
New York Democrats’ gerrymander of its forthcoming 26 congressional districts puts the party in a strong position to carry 22 of them this November, or 84.6 percent. If executed at the ballot box, that would give New York its second-largest Democratic U.S. House delegation in state history following the election of 2008 when Democrats won…
Read MorePhoto Finish in the Badger State?
Wisconsin businessman Kevin Nicholson’s entrance into the Republican gubernatorial nomination race against former Lieutenant Governor Rebecca Kleefisch raises the prospect of the GOP holding its first competitive primary election for the office in more than 75 years. The last GOP primary to be decided by single digits was in 1946 when two-term incumbent Walter Goodland…
Read MoreMinnesota Republicans Eye Party’s Largest Gubernatorial Primary Field in 2022
More than 10 candidates are campaigning for the Republican nomination – how many will file after the nominating convention?
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