October 2012
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 30, 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.
By Eric Ostermeier on October 29, 2012
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.
By Eric Ostermeier on October 26, 2012
The last time three Gopher State congressional races were decided by single digits was during the Republican Revolution.
By Eric Ostermeier on October 24, 2012
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.
By Eric Ostermeier on October 23, 2012
Only Strom Thurmond (1948, 54 years) and Alf Landon (1936, 50 years) lived longer after losing a presidential election.
By Eric Ostermeier on October 22, 2012
Iowa would become the 45th state in the nation to elect a woman to the U.S. House if Vilsack defeats Steve King in November.
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 18, 2012
The most basic branch of mathematics has been celebrated, indicted, and used as a political weapon by the presidency for nearly 150 years.
By Eric Ostermeier on October 17, 2012
Romney rattles off only four of his patented series of bullet-point answers at the Hofstra debate versus 10 in Denver.
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 11, 2012
Two-thirds of battleground state maps have changed over the past month, yielding 10 different maps across 12 different media outlets.
By Eric Ostermeier on October 10, 2012
The popular media outlet's political reporting is ripe with stories boasting compendiums of visuals in groupings of 5 and 10; BuzzFeed is also a fan of the numbers 6, 8, 11, and 15.
By Eric Ostermeier on October 7, 2012
Nixon, Reagan, Bush 41, and Obama all praised Sesame Street during their administrations, but only Clinton cited Muppets by name, rallying to Big Bird's defense during the 104th Congress.
By Eric Ostermeier on October 5, 2012
The president blinked at a rate of 71 times per minute while speaking during Wednesday's debate - 1,000 times more frequently than Romney (53 per minute).
By Eric Ostermeier on October 3, 2012
The president receives more than 4 minutes more face time than Romney during the first debate, or a 12 percent greater amount than the GOP nominee.
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.
