Posts by Dr. Eric Ostermeier
Will the GOP Sweep North and South Dakota’s U.S. House Seats?
Republicans have never carried both single-member at-large districts in the same election cycle; Democrats have won 25 of 29 U.S. House contests in the Dakotas since 1982
Read MoreWill Margaret Anderson Kelliher Break the Upper Midwestern Glass Ceiling?
Just 17 women have appeared on the gubernatorial ballot in 257 elections across Minnesota, Iowa, South Dakota, and Wisconsin; only 2 from major political parties
Read MoreHas Gerrymandering Lost Its Punch?
Current redistricting period has produced the closest relationship between votes received and seats won by party across the nation’s 435 U.S. House districts since the 1940s
Read MoreStill thinking about running for the U.S. Senate? You’re Too Late
No non-incumbent has won a U.S. Senate seat by announcing their candidacy this late in the election cycle; the average length of successful U.S. Senate campaigns since 2000 has been 447 days
Read MorePAC Money Comprises Only 5 Percent of Bachmann’s Q1 2010 Fundraising
Special interest PAC contributions fall for 4th consecutive quarter as percentage of Bachmann’s total fundraising
Read MoreIs the Democratic Party ‘Overrepresented’ in the U.S. House?
Democratic candidates have won 772 more U.S. House seats since 1942 than their cumulative ‘proportional vote share,’ or 23 seats per election cycle; +27 seats in 2008
Read MoreCan Minnesota Republicans Win a 4th U.S. House Seat in 2010?
Minnesota GOP has failed to net a U.S. House seat in 9 of 15 election cycles in which the Republican Party made gains nationally since 1944
Read MoreBachmann Sets New Benchmark in Minnesota Politics with Q1 2010 Fundraising Haul
Bachmann outraises Clark by 60 percent in Q1 2010; sets new Minnesota fundraising record for the 1st quarter of an election year
Read MoreDemocratic Party Failure to Field Candidate in South Dakota U.S. Senate Race Is Historic
The South Dakota Democratic Party’s plunge from 49 percent of the vote in 2004 to falling off the ballot in 2010 is the greatest in the nation since the end of WWII
Read MoreFormer FBI Special Agent Ali Soufan Speaks on Torture and the War on Terrorism at Humphrey Institute
“I know how it is to look evil in the face.”
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