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Arkansas

Bellwether States for Partisan Control of the US Senate

By Dr. Eric Ostermeier | January 21, 2020 | 3

Seven states have elected U.S. Senators into the majority party of the subsequent Congress 70+ percent of the time over the last century, but no state has done so in each of its last four elections.

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Arkansas Democrats Poised to Make History

By Dr. Eric Ostermeier | November 13, 2019 | 4

The 12-year gap between no GOP and Democratic Arkansas U.S. Senate nominees will be the shortest in the direct election era.

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Which States Have Never Elected Lieutenant Governors to the Governorship?

By Dr. Eric Ostermeier | May 17, 2019 | 5

Just six of the 43 states with stand-alone offices of lieutenant governor have yet to see a former or sitting lieutenant governor become governor at the ballot box.

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4 Gubernatorial Nominees Set State Party Records in 2018

By Dr. Eric Ostermeier | December 13, 2018 | 1

Winning candidates in four states – two Democrats and two Republicans – received the largest support recorded by their party in a race for governor since statehood.

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Partisan Gubernatorial Election Records Abound in 2018 Cycle

By Dr. Eric Ostermeier | December 7, 2018 | 4

Democrats and Republicans in 18 states have now set or tied their longest gubernatorial winning streak in party history.

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Largest Number of All-Democratic State Delegations Headed to Congress in 50+ Years

By Dr. Eric Ostermeier | November 25, 2018 | 1

Fourteen states will be represented by a single party on Capitol Hill – seven Democratic and seven Republican; one party controls all but one seat in 13 other states.

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Democrats and Republicans Currently Have Record US Senate Winning Streaks in 28 States

By Dr. Eric Ostermeier | November 20, 2017 | 0

Only one region of the country is regularly seeing both parties win U.S. Senate seats in the vast majority of its states.

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History Gives Luther Strange Long Odds in US Senate Primary Runoff

By Dr. Eric Ostermeier | September 25, 2017 | 3

No appointed US Senator has ever won a primary runoff and only two incumbents who placed second in the initial primary have done so.

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115th Congress Has Largest Number of Single-Party State Delegations Since 1950s

By Dr. Eric Ostermeier | January 3, 2017 | 7

Since the passage of the 17th Amendment all but seven states have been represented by a single party in the U.S. House and Senate for at least one Congress.

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Democrats Enduring Nightmarish Presidential Election Slide in 4 States

By Dr. Eric Ostermeier | November 30, 2016 | 2

For the first time in party history, Democrats have lost multiple states by increasingly larger margins in five consecutive presidential elections.

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