January 2013
By Eric Ostermeier on January 31, 2013
If Scott Brown wins Massachusetts' U.S. Senate special election in June he will return to the chamber with the eighth shortest gap in service in history.
By Eric Ostermeier on January 30, 2013
West Virginia and Oregon have the oldest multi-member delegations to the House with Kansas and Arkansas the youngest.
By Eric Ostermeier on January 28, 2013
Sarah Palin uttered more than 189,000 words over 150 appearances on various FOX broadcasts during her three years as an analyst at the network, or $15.85 per word.
By Eric Ostermeier on January 24, 2013
Women have been elected to the U.S. House from western states at 2.5 times the rate as the rest of the country over the last century, with the region electing nearly 1/3 of all female-held seats with just 1/7 of all House seats.
By Eric Ostermeier on January 22, 2013
Eight U.S. House delegations boast an all homegrown membership, led by Iowa and Mississippi; five delegations come in at 25 percent or less including Virginia and Minnesota.
By Eric Ostermeier on January 17, 2013
The last time a former governor of the Palmetto State won a U.S. House contest was a decade before the Civil War (William Aiken).
By Eric Ostermeier on January 16, 2013
The favorite news outlet of conservatives ranks just ninth in presser questions in Obama's first term, getting to ask questions at only half the rate of the Big 3 broadcast networks.
By Eric Ostermeier on January 14, 2013
The party of retiring five-term U.S. Senators has held the seat 83 percent of the time in the next election since popular vote Senate contests began a century ago.
By Eric Ostermeier on January 11, 2013
One of your ancestors might have been represented by James Joyce, John Milton, Thomas Eliot, or John Dryden on Capitol Hill.
By Eric Ostermeier on January 10, 2013
Only one other governor has suffered a bigger decline in support in a reelection bid than Strickland in 2010 out of 40 such gubernatorial incumbents since the birth of the two-party system 180+ years ago.
By Eric Ostermeier on January 8, 2013
One state delegation has more experience in the Senate than 37 other U.S. Senators combined.
By Eric Ostermeier on January 7, 2013
It has been more than 50 years since a state has held three Senate elections in three consecutive years or four Senate contests over a five-year span.
By Eric Ostermeier on January 4, 2013
Will he or won't he? Until we know for sure, here is a profile of the nine U.S. Senators from the Gopher State who previously served in the nation's lower legislative chamber.
By Eric Ostermeier on January 2, 2013
At 28 years and counting, Iowa's U.S. Senate delegation has served longer than all but four other pairs and has notched the second-longest period among members of different parties.
