May 2011
By Eric Ostermeier on May 31, 2011
New York junior Senator jumps from #17 to #5 for cash on hand among 2012 U.S. Senate incumbents last quarter.
By Eric Ostermeier on May 30, 2011
Twins have just a .387 winning percentage in Memorial Day games since 1971
By Eric Ostermeier on May 27, 2011
Team Bachmann raises $257,000+ in 36 hours targeting Obama vs. $118,000 over 48 hours in October 2009's campaign targeting Pelosi and Reid
By Eric Ostermeier on May 26, 2011
15 percent of current U.S. Representatives (63 members) were first elected by special election including 20 percent of the current Democratic caucus
By Eric Ostermeier on May 25, 2011
Erroneous statements abound during coverage and analysis of NY-26 Tuesday evening
By Eric Ostermeier on May 24, 2011
Special elections have seen 9 of 37 seats change parties over the last 9+ years, or 24.3 percent of all races
By Eric Ostermeier on May 23, 2011
North Dakota's -8.3 percent monthly decline in unemployment from March to April is its largest drop over the past 35+ years
By Eric Ostermeier on May 23, 2011
In 2004, Club for Growth founder and then President Stephen Moore called T-Paw "Arnold Schwarzenegger of the Midwest"
By Eric Ostermeier on May 23, 2011
National chatter of a T-Paw presidential bid first began nearly seven years ago at the 2004 RNC
By Eric Ostermeier on May 20, 2011
Only North Dakota and Vermont have gone longer without a jobless rate uptick
By Eric Ostermeier on May 19, 2011
Palin tweeting 64 percent less frequently in 2011 compared to 2010
By Eric Ostermeier on May 18, 2011
No ex- (non-sitting) Wisconsin governor has ever been elected to a 1st term in the U.S. Senate
By Eric Ostermeier on May 17, 2011
Nearly one out of six Minnesota U.S. Representatives in history did not win their first congressional race
By Eric Ostermeier on May 15, 2011
Humphrey event examines the movement afoot that seeks to implement an electoral system with a direct, nationwide popular vote
By Eric Ostermeier on May 13, 2011
No U.S. Representative has won reelection in back-to-back cycles after moving to a new state in the history of the House
By Eric Ostermeier on May 12, 2011
Gingrich becomes just the 4th sitting or ex-House Speaker to run for president since 1900 and the first since World War II
By Eric Ostermeier on May 11, 2011
Only East Rutherford, New Jersey - home to New Meadowlands Stadium - has a smaller population than Arden Hills, Minnesota
By Eric Ostermeier on May 10, 2011
Only one sitting U.S. House member has won a Senate race from Indiana since popular vote elections were introduced: Dan Quayle
By Eric Ostermeier on May 9, 2011
A sitting U.S. Representative from Indiana has not won a gubernatorial election in 123 years
By Eric Ostermeier on May 6, 2011
Less than 25 percent of Republican U.S. House members give credit to Obama in press releases on the bin Laden kill; less than 3 percent of Democrats acknowledge Bush
By Eric Ostermeier on May 4, 2011
Minnesota voters have been presented with 213 constitutional amendments since 1858, approving 120 or 56.3 percent
By Eric Ostermeier on May 3, 2011
States won by Barack Obama in 2008 populate 21 of the Top 25 slots in per capita large donor out of state donations to Bachmann's 2012 campaign
By Eric Ostermeier on May 2, 2011
Ellison's relative Twitter silence on the killing of bin Laden is noteworthy insomuch as the congressman had tweeted 14 times over the weekend including six times on Sunday
By Eric Ostermeier on May 2, 2011
Only seven candidates from Nevada have run for the U.S. House as an independent since statehood; none have eclipsed 15 percent
