Presidency
By Eric Ostermeier on June 25, 2012
The U.S. Supreme Court's net confidence rating during Barack Obama's presidency is at an all-time low since Gallup's measurement began in the early 1970s.
By Eric Ostermeier on June 22, 2012
With seven months left in his term, the president holds the fourth lowest departure rate of cabinet department heads out of 23 administrations since FDR.
By Eric Ostermeier on June 19, 2012
Talk about bellwethers: Ohio's vote for the winning presidential candidate has deviated from the national vote an average of just 2.2 points since 1900 and only 1.3 points since 1964.
By Eric Ostermeier on June 7, 2012
While all eyes were on Wisconsin this week, Mitt Romney turned in more sluggish performances in presidential primaries held on Tuesday. Despite effectively sealing the nomination nearly two months ago, Romney failed to crack the 70 percent mark in two more states: South Dakota (66.0 percent) and Montana (68.4 percent)....
By Eric Ostermeier on May 25, 2012
The Badger State has voted for the same party in presidential and U.S. Senate races in 14 of 16 cycles over the last century.
By Eric Ostermeier on May 24, 2012
Romney has carried just three out of 43 states this cycle with 70+ percent of the vote, compared to an average of more than 15 states by previous presumptive GOP nominees.
By Eric Ostermeier on May 14, 2012
Only seven states have had more than half of their presidential election contests decided by single digits over the last 100 years: Missouri, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Ohio, New Hampshire, Delaware, and Oregon.
By Eric Ostermeier on May 11, 2012
Buoyed by key primary battles down the ballot and a gay marriage ban initiative, Indiana and North Carolina notch the 3rd and 4th biggest increases in GOP presidential primary turnout from 2008.
By Eric Ostermeier on May 9, 2012
More than 50,000 North Carolina residents who voted in the Tuesday's Republican presidential primary opted for 'no preference' on their ballot, or 5.2 percent. That marks the second highest percentage of those who have done so in the 40 years of the modern primary era, behind the 9.8 percent who...
By Eric Ostermeier on May 9, 2012
Romney is the only presumptive Republican presidential nominee to fail to win two-thirds of the vote in the Hoosier State over the last 56 years.
By Eric Ostermeier on May 7, 2012
Tuesday's primaries are three of the nine contests in the 2008 and 2012 cycles held when the presumptive GOP nominee and Ron Paul were the only active candidates left in the race.
By Eric Ostermeier on May 4, 2012
The electoral vote count for the 30 states surveyed in May 2004 was identical to the general election; in 2008, the Election Day vote generated a swing of 176 votes among the 36 states surveyed that May.
By Eric Ostermeier on April 30, 2012
Obama lifted Wisconsin's motto, so which state mottos and slogans might the Republican candidates have picked for their campaigns?
By Eric Ostermeier on April 30, 2012
Nine states currently hold an 11-cycle streak backing the Republican nominee but cannot tie Vermont's record until the Election of 2072.
By Eric Ostermeier on April 27, 2012
Only Utah gives more money per capita to Republican presidential candidates and only Utah and Texas have a greater GOP field vs. Obama fundraising disparity.
By Eric Ostermeier on April 24, 2012
The Texas Congressman makes large donor fundraising gains in a dozen states on the presumptive GOP nominee in Q1 2012.
By Eric Ostermeier on April 19, 2012
A Barack Obama victory in Minnesota in 2012 will give the Gopher State the longest all-time Democratic winning streak in presidential elections outside of the south at 10 in a row.
By Eric Ostermeier on April 16, 2012
The Hilary Rosen skirmish has propelled broadcast reports on Ann Romney to double those on the First Lady in April.
By Eric Ostermeier on April 11, 2012
Santorum's presidential campaign lasted two months longer than Tim Pawlenty's and Rick Perry's combined.
By Eric Ostermeier on April 10, 2012
World leaders, political movements, ethnic groups, and individual Americans have been singled out as being 'stupid' by U.S. Presidents over the last 170 years.
