Posts by Dr. Eric Ostermeier
Iowa to Send Historically Unseasoned US House Delegation to 114th Congress
Iowans will send their least experienced delegation to the 114th Congress since the 1970s and fourth least experienced since the end of World War II.
Read MoreStatus Quo in Uncompetitive Alabama 1st CD Special
Only one Democrat has won 40 percent of the vote in 25 Yellowhammer State 1st CD races since 1966.
Read MoreThe Final Six: Which State Will Next Elect Its 1st Woman to the US House?
Six states have yet to elect a woman to the U.S. House of Representatives, but one is poised to be crossed off that list in 2014.
Read MoreSteve Stockman’s 12 Percent Solution
Only 4 of 31 Texas U.S. Senate candidacies by sitting or ex-U.S. Representatives have been successful in the direct election era.
Read MoreMassachusetts Republicans Lose 92nd Consecutive US House Race
Bay State Republicans have lost 92 contests in a row and picked off just 2 of 294 Democratic-held Massachusetts U.S. House seats since 1944.
Read MoreFive Percent and Rising
The victory by Massachusetts Democrat Katherine Clark in Tuesday’s 5th Congressional District special election marked the 32nd time a U.S. House seat was won by a woman in the Bay State. Since the first woman was elected to the chamber…
Read MoreKitzhaber Launches Bid to Become 2nd Longest-Serving Governor in History
If Oregon’s Democratic governor is reelected in 2014 and serves out the entirety of his fourth term, he will trail only Iowa’s Terry Branstad in all-time gubernatorial service since 1789.
Read More10 Quotes by President Obama about Nelson Mandela
The 44th president quoted or referred to the South African leader an average of once every 88 days in office before his death.
Read MoreCan Dayton Catch Lightning in a Bottle Twice?
Minnesotans have elected a Democratic governor with a Democrat in the White House in just four of 28 cycles since statehood – with none in their second term.
Read MorePollsters Ignoring Rick Perry’s 2016 ‘Campaign’
Only two of 13 GOP 2016 primary polls conducted since April have included the Texas governor’s name.
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