Posts by Dr. Eric Ostermeier
Maryland US Representatives Eye Mikulski’s Senate Seat
Maryland U.S. Senators have paid their dues in the lower chamber at the fifth highest rate in the nation; a former U.S. Representative has held Mikulski’s seat for 107 of the last 130 years.
Read MoreJoe Sestak and Retread Pennsylvania US Senate Candidates By the Numbers
Only two failed U.S. Senate nominees from the Keystone State have sought a return to the chamber prior to Sestak – neither were victorious.
Read MoreWill Dan Coats Retire from the US Senate (Again)?
None of the eight Indiana U.S. Senators who served longer than Coats left the chamber on their own terms.
Read MoreStrickland Would Be Oldest True Freshman US Senator Popularly Elected to Full Term
Only a dozen U.S. Senators have been seated in the chamber for the first time at the age of 75+ years: nine were appointed, two were elected by state legislatures, and one won a special election.
Read MoreUniversity of Minnesota to Stop Using Race in Crime Alert Suspect Descriptions
The administration reverses course and now views a suspect’s race as “too general” of a descriptive characteristic to be useful to provide to its community; gender descriptions, however, will remain.
Read MoreRuss Feingold: An Unlikely Return to the Senate in 2016?
Only two defeated U.S. Senators have come back to win an election to the chamber since the mid-1950s.
Read MoreWould Mike Pence Be Jumping the Gun in White House Bid?
Abraham Lincoln was the last president to attempt and never win a majority of the vote in a statewide race prior to winning the White House.
Read MoreSlam 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.
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