Posts by Dr. Eric Ostermeier
The Historically Undersized Pennsylvania Democratic US House Delegation
The 2012 cycle yielded the lowest number and percentage of major party Pennsylvania U.S. House members from the state’s winning presidential candidate since the birth of the two-party system in 1828.
Read MoreSmart Politics Google Reader Subscribers: Transition Reminder
A reminder to those readers of Smart Politics’ reports who subscribe through RSS via Google Reader: as per Google’s announcement in March, Google Reader will be retired on Monday, July 1st and you will need to transition to a new…
Read MoreHow Many Republicans Will Run for Minnesota’s 6th CD in 2014?
Less than 5 percent of the 208 Minnesota Republican U.S. House primaries over the last 50 years have fielded three or more candidates on the ballot (and only 7 percent of races without a GOP incumbent).
Read MoreTo Serve or Represent? Website Taglines of US Representatives
How do 435 men and women use linguistic snippets on their House websites to distinguish themselves and what they do?
Read MoreJim Abeler: Leading Off the Senate Roll Call Vote in 2015?
Only three U.S. Senators in history had a name earlier in the alphabet than the budding 2014 Republican Senate candidate; no Minnesotan has ever topped the chamber’s roll call list.
Read MoreThe 40 Percent Floor
Although Republicans have won 23 of 39 Indiana gubernatorial races since the first time a GOP candidate was on the ballot in 1860, Democrats have suffered few blow-out defeats during this span. In fact, the Democratic nominee has eclipsed the…
Read MoreMichaud Gearing Up to Battle Cutler, History in Maine Gubernatorial Bid
Only 1 in 3 ex- or sitting Maine U.S. Representatives to land on the gubernatorial general election ballot have been victorious.
Read MoreMeet the Three House Women Who Go by “Congressman”
Republicans Marsha Blackburn, Diane Black, and Cynthia Lummis are the lone holdouts from self-identifying as a “Congresswoman.”
Read MoreHow Much Money Will Bachmann Raise as a Non-Candidate?
Bachmann is still fundraising on her campaign website with a pitch that Democrats are “trying to defeat her” – even though she is retiring and won’t be on the ballot in 2014.
Read More2,445 US Representatives Who Served with John Dingell
From Watkins Abbitt to John Zwach, Dingell has worked alongside nearly 2,500 different elected men and women over the last 21,000 days in the nation’s lower legislative chamber.
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