Presidency
20 Presidential Tickets That Lost Both Home States
Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan are not alone in failing to carry their home states this election cycle, although theirs is the first such ticket in 40 years.
Read MoreMinnesota Becomes 1st State Outside South to Vote Democratic in 10 Straight Presidential Elections
Minnesota joins Virginia as the only states with 10+ consecutive cycle stretches backing Democratic and Republican presidential nominees in state history.
Read MoreRomney Suffers 2nd Worst Home State Loss in Presidential Election History
Only John Frémont in 1856 lost his home state by a larger margin than Romney out of 100+ major party presidential nominees on the ballot since the formation of the Democratic Party in 1828.
Read MoreProjections: 2012 Presidential Contest
All eyes on Virginia, Florida, New Hampshire, Ohio, Pennsylvania…you know the rest…
Read MoreWill Obama or Romney Break Any Records Tuesday?
Obama set the all-time Democratic presidential statewide victory margin marks in Delaware and Vermont (and D.C.) four years ago.
Read MoreFinal Battleground Maps: 114 Electoral Votes Up for Grabs
A dozen media outlets still yield 10 different battleground state maps less than a week from Election Day, with an average of nine states and 114 electoral votes hanging in the balance.
Read MoreWhich State Will Host the Most Closely Decided Presidential Race in 2012?
Since 1824, Kentucky and Maryland have each hosted the closest statewide presidential contests five times; Ohio last did so in back-to-back cycles in 1944 and 1948.
Read MoreLess than 1% of Voting Eligible Population Polled in Battleground States This Cycle
After more than 640 polls, 531,000 individuals have been surveyed this cycle about the Romney-Obama horserace across the 57.3 million voting eligible population of the 10 main battleground states.
Read MoreOn Presidents and Bayonets: A Historical Review
Ronald Reagan talked about bayonets more than twice as frequently as any other president; most presidential rhetoric casts the weapon as a symbol for tyranny and unjust force.
Read MoreGeorge McGovern’s Post Presidential Election Half-Life Was 3rd Longest in History
Only Strom Thurmond (1948, 54 years) and Alf Landon (1936, 50 years) lived longer after losing a presidential election.
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