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How Late Will Biden Challengers Enter the Democratic Field?

Tim Scott and Presidential Candidates with Two First Names

Will Libertarians Continue to Make Inroads in 2024?

Southern States Poised to Have Fewest Democratic Governors Since Reconstruction

Should Presidential Candidates Announce Early Or Late?

Will Women US Senators Run the Table in 2024?

Kentucky

Beshear Sets Record: Kentucky Gubernatorial Primary By the Numbers

By Dr. Eric Ostermeier | May 17, 2023 | 3

The Democrat received the largest support in a contested gubernatorial primary in state history.

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Southern States Poised to Have Fewest Democratic Governors Since Reconstruction

By Dr. Eric Ostermeier | April 28, 2023 | 4

The party has never held fewer than two governorships in the South outside of the Civil War and Reconstruction.

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Kentucky Republicans Poised for Record Gubernatorial Primary Field

By Dr. Eric Ostermeier | December 19, 2022 | 9

Twice as many candidates have already filed as the number of contenders in the most congested Kentucky GOP gubernatorial primary in party history.

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On Shaky Gubernatorial Ground?

By Dr. Eric Ostermeier | September 28, 2021 | 4

Three sitting governors were victorious with the lowest percentage of the vote in their state in more than 80 years.

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A Brief History of Six-Term US Senators

By Dr. Eric Ostermeier | March 1, 2021 | 2

More than 40 U.S. Senators have won election to six or more terms in the history of the nation’s upper legislative chamber including six serving in the 117th Congress.

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The Quick Rebound: A Brief History of Defeated US Senators Elected in the Next Cycle

By Dr. Eric Ostermeier | February 22, 2021 | 4

Since 1914, less than a dozen U.S. Senators have been unseated and subsequently elected back to the chamber two years later.

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Georgia Democrats Eye US Senate Electoral Rarity

By Dr. Eric Ostermeier | December 6, 2020 | 0

Only two times in U.S. Senate history have both incumbents from the same state been unseated in the same cycle.

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Libertarians, Third Parties Set Multiple Records in 2020 US Senate Elections

By Dr. Eric Ostermeier | November 22, 2020 | 2

Nine third party or independent candidates made the record books in U.S. Senate elections across the nation.

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Record Number of US Senate Candidates On 2020 Kentucky Primary Ballot

By Dr. Eric Ostermeier | June 24, 2020 | 0

18 total candidates and seven challengers taking on an incumbent – both state records.

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Beshear Wins 2nd Closest Gubernatorial Election in Kentucky History

By Dr. Eric Ostermeier | November 6, 2019 | 0

Beshear is the first governor of Kentucky to win without a majority in more than 100 years.

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