Posts by Dr. Eric Ostermeier
Election Profile: Minnesota’s 6th Congressional District (2008)
Smart Politics is running a series of election profiles of all the Upper Midwestern U.S. Senate and U.S. House races leading up to the November 4th elections. The series will culminate with Smart Politics’ official projections. The twenty-second profile in…
Read MoreHumphrey Institute / MPR Poll: Bachmann Fighting for Political Life in MN-06
A new poll released today by the Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs and Minnesota Public Radio of Minnesota’s 6th Congressional District finds 1-term Republican incumbent Michele Bachmann in a dead head with DFL challenger Elwyn Tinklenberg. Bachmann trails Tinklenberg 45…
Read MoreDemocratic-Led Iowa U.S. House Delegation a Rarity
Iowa Democrats are poised to return to the U.S. House as the majority delegation in back-to-back elections for just the fourth time in the history of the Hawkeye State. If reelected, the state’s Democratic U.S. Representatives (Bruce Braley from the…
Read MoreMichele Bachmann Still Courting the National Media
Michele Bachmann, a cable television fixture this year with multiple appearances on Larry King Live, is hitting TV and radio programs hard to get her side of the Chris Matthews controversy across the airwaves, during which she questioned whether…
Read More“Landslide�? Indicators
Dozens of polls are now released each day on the presidential race, with the media focus largely being on whether or not John McCain is making any gains in the battleground states he needs to hold (namely, holding Florida, Ohio,…
Read More“Landslide” Indicators
Dozens of polls are now released each day on the presidential race, with the media focus largely being on whether or not John McCain is making any gains in the battleground states he needs to hold (namely, holding Florida, Ohio,…
Read MoreLive Blog: Norm Coleman on Energy Independence
11:55 a.m. In the sixth of a series of candidate forums sponsored by the Center for the Study of Politics and Governance at the University of Minnesota’s Humphrey Institute, Republican U.S. Senate candidate Norm Coleman is giving a speech entitled,…
Read MoreElection Profile: Minnesota’s 5th Congressional District (2008)
Smart Politics is running a series of election profiles of all the Upper Midwestern U.S. Senate and U.S. House races leading up to the November 4th elections. The series will culminate with Smart Politics’ official projections. The twenty-first profile in…
Read MoreLive Blog: Al Franken on the Economy
1:00 p.m. In the fifth of a series of candidate forums sponsored by the Center for the Study of Politics and Governance at the University of Minnesota’s Humphrey Institute, DFL U.S. Senate candidate Al Franken is giving a speech entitled,…
Read MoreCSPG Report: Voter Registration Declines in Many States
A new report released by the Center for the Study of Politics and Governance was released today that finds – contrary to press accounts of a surge in voter registration across the country – that a large number of states…
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