May 2012
By Eric Ostermeier on May 31, 2012
Only two independent candidates have ever won more than 1 percent of the vote across 73 Wisconsin gubernatorial elections since 1848; both of these candidates were former Republican officeholders.
By Eric Ostermeier on May 30, 2012
Tea Party candidates cut into Republican incumbents' victory margins by levels not seen in at least a generation.
By Eric Ostermeier on May 29, 2012
Nearly 40 percent of Lone Star State Democratic primaries for U.S. Senate have gone to a runoff since 1916 with the second place candidate winning in more than half of the runoff elections.
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 22, 2012
The last time Florida Republicans held both Senate seats was 1875; WI (1957), ND (1960), and NE (1976) could also see an end to a decades-long Democratic presence in its state delegations.
By Eric Ostermeier on May 21, 2012
The last time the labor force participation rate was this low in the Gopher State was July 1983.
By Eric Ostermeier on May 18, 2012
Governors in the Badger State have kept their job in 34 of 46 contests since statehood, or 74 percent of the time.
By Eric Ostermeier on May 16, 2012
Only Hugh Butler's 3.3-point victory in 1940 was more narrowly decided than the Cornhusker Republican Senate contest on Tuesday out of 37 contests since 1916.
By Eric Ostermeier on May 15, 2012
At a University of Minnesota event, Pawlenty discusses moderate Republicans, political compromise, and why Americans get the candidates they deserve.
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 10, 2012
Losing gubernatorial candidates have come back for rematches against victorious Republicans and beat them two times out of the six rematches in Wisconsin history.
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 May 2, 2012
Only one six-term U.S. Senator has lost his party's nomination out of two-dozen who completed their sixth term in the direct election era.
