U.S. Senate
By Eric Ostermeier on November 8, 2012
Republican nominee Dan Bongino wins just over 25 percent of the vote - the lowest ever mark for either major party across 35 U.S. Senate contests in state history.
By Eric Ostermeier on November 5, 2012
Early expectations of a Republican takeover of the nation's upper legislative chamber may have lost steam, but close races still abound.
By Eric Ostermeier on October 31, 2012
Kurt Bills is running 22 points behind his party's presidential nominee in Minnesota according to a new Star Tribune poll - on pace to eclipse the worst-ever mark of -17 points since the DFL merger in 1944.
By Eric Ostermeier on October 19, 2012
Kurt Bills' poll numbers show him with the second lowest support of any GOP U.S. Senate nominee since 1944 and third lowest since direct elections began 100 years ago.
By Eric Ostermeier on October 15, 2012
Libertarian hopefuls in Michigan and Missouri are on pace to notch the best ever showing for a non-major party U.S. Senate candidate in their respective states.
By Eric Ostermeier on October 3, 2012
More than 85 senators maintain official U.S. Senate Twitter accounts with John McCain touting the most followers; Marco Rubio has the most followers among senators with non-governmental Twitter accounts.
By Eric Ostermeier on October 1, 2012
A new poll shows the businessman and independent on pace for a record setting performance for a non-major party candidate in a Maryland U.S. Senate contest.
By Eric Ostermeier on September 18, 2012
A champion of the 'great compromise,' Minnesota's GOP U.S. Senate nominee is open to tax increases and vows, "I don't care if I have to have a verbal or physical confrontation with Grover Norquist."
By Eric Ostermeier on September 11, 2012
The victory margin in only 1 of 37 Missouri U.S. Senate races has been narrower than the vote received by the leading third place candidate.
By Eric Ostermeier on September 4, 2012
Connecticut, Michigan, Nevada, Virginia, and Wisconsin are five of 18 states never to split their ticket by voting for a Democratic presidential nominee and a Republican U.S. Senate candidate in the same cycle.
By Eric Ostermeier on August 28, 2012
After November, Democrats in the five-state Upper Midwest region could control less than half of the 10 U.S. Senate seats for only the 4th time in 50 Years.
By Eric Ostermeier on August 15, 2012
The former governor's 3.1-point win over Eric Hovde is the sixth closest in party history out of 37 contests.
By Eric Ostermeier on August 9, 2012
Including GOPers Jim Talent (2002) and Roy Blunt (2010), just 5 Missouri U.S. House members have been elected to the Senate since 1914; nearly three times as many have failed.
By Eric Ostermeier on August 6, 2012
Only three of the 35 Republican primaries for the U.S. Senate have been decided by less than 10 points in state history with the average margin of victory at more than 50 points.
By Eric Ostermeier on August 1, 2012
Only the 1972 Democratic runoff between former Senator Ralph Yarborough and Barefoot Sanders had a smaller drop in turnout of the 11 such U.S. Senate runoffs conducted since 1950
By Eric Ostermeier on July 31, 2012
The nine week gap between the primary and runoff elections is the longest for any U.S. Senate run-off in Texas history.
By Eric Ostermeier on July 30, 2012
Two are retiring and at least one incumbent is vulnerable, but several strong female candidates may help offset these losses for a record of 19+ women in the U.S. Senate in January 2013.
By Eric Ostermeier on July 26, 2012
Nearly one-third of the members of Congress who made the list prior to the last election cycle eventually lost their seat, lost a race for higher office, retired, or resigned in scandal.
By Eric Ostermeier on July 19, 2012
As of mid-day Thursday, no other U.S. Senator has issued a press release defending Huma Abedin after the senior senator from Arizona's impassioned remarks in the chamber Wednesday.
By Eric Ostermeier on July 11, 2012
With new polls released this week showing uncertainty at the top of the leader board in the Wisconsin GOP U.S. Senate race, the four-candidate field of Tommy Thompson, Eric Hovde, Mark Neumann, and Jeff Fitzgerald is likely to produce not only a plurality winner next month, but possibly all four...
