Posts by Dr. Eric Ostermeier
The Most Recent Major Party Presidential Candidates in All 50 States
All but four states have fielded at least one major party candidate for the White House during the modern primary era.
Read MoreWill Wisconsin Make History With Another 2024 Presidential Nail-Biter?
No state’s popular vote winner has been decided by less than a percentage point in three straight cycles during the two-party era.
Read MoreWill Tony Evers Govern Into the 2030s?
The Democratic governor is just the second in the state to win election at the age of 70+.
Read MoreFlorida Sets Modern GOP Record with Three Presidential Hopefuls
Though the massive 2020 Democratic field raised the bar for the number of same-state candidates.
Read MoreDoug Burgum and a Brief History of North Dakota Presidential Candidates
Burgum is the first candidate to launch a bonafide major party White House campaign from the Peace Garden State.
Read MoreHow Big Will the 2024 GOP Presidential Field Get?
More Republican candidates will have launched bids by the end of the first week of June than in any previous election cycle in party history.
Read MoreHow Late Will Biden Challengers Enter the Democratic Field?
Prior to 2024, only one of the non-fringe candidates to launch campaigns against their party’s president in the modern primary era did so prior to July in the year before the election.
Read MoreBeshear Sets Record: Kentucky Gubernatorial Primary By the Numbers
The Democrat received the largest support in a contested gubernatorial primary in state history.
Read MoreTim Scott and Presidential Candidates with Two First Names
Three candidates with two ‘first names’ have been elected to the White House over the last half-century.
Read MoreWill Libertarians Continue to Make Inroads in 2024?
Nearly all metrics show support for Libertarian gubernatorial candidates is currently at an all-time high.
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