National Politics
South Carolina Democrats End Party’s Largest US House Pick-Up Drought
After more than five-dozen failed attempts to flip a seat, Democrats won the most competitive election for the office in South Carolina in more than 125 years.
Read MoreGeorge HW Bush’s Longevity By the Numbers
The 41st president lived to be the oldest in U.S. history and almost cracked the Top 10 in years lived following his first appearance on a national ticket.
Read MoreLargest Number of All-Democratic State Delegations Headed to Congress in 50+ Years
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.
Read MoreFlorida 2018 and the Closest US Senate Races In the 50 States
The Scott vs Nelson contest broke a 30-year record for the most competitive election for the office in state history.
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 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.
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