Posts by Dr. Eric Ostermeier
Iowa Republicans Surrender Record Number of State House Seats in 2014
Iowa Republicans failed to field candidates in a party record 32 State House districts this cycle – shattering the previous GOP high water mark by 39 percent.
Read MoreCan Democrats Knock Out Kasich in Ohio?
The 40 percent rate at which Ohio Democrats have won the governorship with a Democrat in the White House over the last century is good for third best in the Midwest – but it hasn’t happened since 1952.
Read MoreThe Shortest Tenures of Louisiana US Reps in History
Vance McAllister’s political half-life may be running out, but he won’t quite have the briefest stint in the U.S. House from the Pelican State – that would be Effingham Lawrence at just one day.
Read MoreVance McAllister: In His Own Words
If Rep. McAllister does not resign, his 2014 opponents will have a treasure trove of statements from the congressman saying one thing and doing another.
Read MoreTom Petri to Face Rare Republican Challenger in 2014
The fourth longest-serving U.S. Representative in Wisconsin history has faced only two primary challengers during his 17 previous reelection bids.
Read MoreWill Montana Split Its Congressional Ballot Again in 2014?
Only two of 27 states have split their vote for U.S. Senate and at-large U.S. House seats in a majority of elections over the last century: Montana (78 percent of the time) and South Dakota (60 percent).
Read MoreThe Quotable Jim Sensenbrenner
One of Capitol Hill’s most outspoken critics of the mass data collection undertaken by the last two presidential administrations shares his thoughts on fear-mongering, Edward Snowden, and the long winter of 2014.
Read MoreWhich States Are Bellwethers for Partisan Control of the US Senate?
Two states – Rhode Island and Nevada – have elected U.S. Senators into the majority party of the subsequent Congress 75+ percent of the time over the last 100 years; Virginia has done so in each of the last six elections.
Read MoreFinal Four Has Presidential Approval
By edging Michigan in the final seconds Sunday, the University of Kentucky guaranteed that one school in the Final Four this year would be located in a state that was not carried by President Barack Obama in 2012. (Connecticut, Florida,…
Read MoreWest Virginia, Utah Eye All-GOP US House Delegations in 2014
It has been more than 90 years since the last time Republicans had a monopoly on every U.S. House seat in the Mountain State.
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