Posts by Dr. Eric Ostermeier
It’s Been Awhile
When Tony Evers unseated Scott Walker in Wisconsin’s gubernatorial election last week, it set up just the fifth time in state history in which a Democratic governor will be in office when new legislative district lines are drawn following the decennial U.S. Census. Prior to Evers, Republicans sat in the governor’s office each of the…
Read MoreIlhan Omar Nearly Breaks Minnesota US House Electoral Record
Omar received the third largest percentage of the vote among the 140+ newly elected Gopher State U.S. Representatives since statehood.
Read MoreAxne Records Rare Plurality Win in Iowa US House Race
The 3rd CD member-elect is just the sixth candidate to win without the support of a majority of voters in the state out of more than 250 U.S. House elections since 1940.
Read MoreMinnesotans Make History in 2018 US House Elections
The 2018 cycle is the first time since statehood in which two political parties each flipped more than one congressional seat.
Read MoreNew Jersey GOP Endures Worst Cycle for US House Races in Party History
Only the Election of 1912 saw Republicans win as low a percentage of seats to the chamber since the founding of the party in the mid-1850s.
Read MoreMassachusetts Poised to Cast Historic Gubernatorial and US Senate Split Ticket Vote
The winning margins between the two parties in races for governor and U.S. Senate in 2018 may be the largest with a split ticket outcome in state history.
Read MoreFull House
For just the third time in more than 650 general and special elections, voters in an Iowa U.S. House race will have six choices on the general election ballot. The state’s 3rd CD finds Republican David Young challenged by Democratic businesswoman Cynthia Axne plus Libertarian Bryan Holder, Green nominee Paul Knupp, independent Joe Grandanette, and…
Read MoreIowa Democrats Make Run At History in 2018 Congressional Races
A Democratic sweep of all four congressional districts would leave Iowans without a GOP member in its U.S. House delegation for the first time since the mid-1850s.
Read MoreChuck Grassley: Win One for the…Grim Reaper?
One in six former Iowa U.S. Senators died in office – although none in 80+ years.
Read MoreThe Longest Partisan State Attorney General Streaks in the Nation
The impressive Democratic electoral winning streak in Minnesota is not even the fifth biggest for the party across the country.
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