Presidency
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 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 April 30, 2012
Obama lifted Wisconsin's motto, so which state mottos and slogans might the Republican candidates have picked for their campaigns?
By Eric Ostermeier on April 30, 2012
Nine states currently hold an 11-cycle streak backing the Republican nominee but cannot tie Vermont's record until the Election of 2072.
By Eric Ostermeier on April 27, 2012
Only Utah gives more money per capita to Republican presidential candidates and only Utah and Texas have a greater GOP field vs. Obama fundraising disparity.
By Eric Ostermeier on April 24, 2012
The Texas Congressman makes large donor fundraising gains in a dozen states on the presumptive GOP nominee in Q1 2012.
By Eric Ostermeier on April 19, 2012
A Barack Obama victory in Minnesota in 2012 will give the Gopher State the longest all-time Democratic winning streak in presidential elections outside of the south at 10 in a row.
By Eric Ostermeier on April 16, 2012
The Hilary Rosen skirmish has propelled broadcast reports on Ann Romney to double those on the First Lady in April.
By Eric Ostermeier on April 11, 2012
Santorum's presidential campaign lasted two months longer than Tim Pawlenty's and Rick Perry's combined.
By Eric Ostermeier on April 10, 2012
World leaders, political movements, ethnic groups, and individual Americans have been singled out as being 'stupid' by U.S. Presidents over the last 170 years.
By Eric Ostermeier on April 4, 2012
The Romney-Santorum battle rivals the Stassen-MacArthur-Dewey contest in 1948 for the most competitive cycle in the primary's 100-year history; voter turnout soars more than 90 percent from 2008.
By Eric Ostermeier on April 3, 2012
Santorum has won more than double the number of counties as the rest of the GOP field combined with Romney tallying less than one-quarter.
By Eric Ostermeier on April 2, 2012
Republican primary and caucus victors have reached the 50 percent mark just six times in 29 contests in the 2012 cycle, down from 10 at this stage in 2008.
By Eric Ostermeier on March 30, 2012
If he remains in the race, Santorum will end up with the third or fourth most states ever won by a failed presidential candidate .
By Eric Ostermeier on March 28, 2012
The Badger and Prairie States have voted for the same Republican presidential candidate for 11 consecutive election cycles, with a victory margin differential usually within single digits between the two states
By Eric Ostermeier on March 27, 2012
Only Teddy Roosevelt had more children who were under 18 years of age upon taking office - one more than a potential Rick Santorum presidency
By Eric Ostermeier on March 23, 2012
None of the five Badger State US House members have formally backed a candidate with the Midwest at a regional low rate of 36 percent.
