Iowa
By Eric Ostermeier on May 6, 2013
Idaho has not hosted a special election to the House in its 122 years since statehood; Delaware last held one during the McKinley administration with Utah and New Hampshire during the Hoover years.
By Eric Ostermeier on April 10, 2013
One active governor tops the list, while another will crack the Top 10 by the end of his term; two current west coast governors will climb onto the list later this year .
By Eric Ostermeier on April 5, 2013
Thirty-seven governors in U.S. history were elected into office at least five times but only 10 served in the 20th or 21st Centuries; four members of the Club are alive today.
By Eric Ostermeier on February 21, 2013
The five U.S. Senators who have announced their retirement during the 113th Congress are 10 years older on average than any 'retiring class' from the chamber over the last five decades.
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 8, 2013
One state delegation has more experience in the Senate than 37 other U.S. Senators combined.
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.
By Eric Ostermeier on November 5, 2012
More than a half-dozen contests in the five-state region could be decided by single digits.
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 September 28, 2012
Republicans have won at least one U.S. House seat from the Hawkeye State since 1856.
By Eric Ostermeier on September 12, 2012
The Gopher State has been polled in the presidential race at one-sixth the rate in 2012 compared to this stage of the 2008 cycle.
By Eric Ostermeier on September 10, 2012
The selection of Paul Ryan as GOP VP nominee moves the needle on Wisconsin but few other states in the presidential race according to a dozen media outlets.
By Eric Ostermeier on August 28, 2012
After November, Democrats in the five-state Upper Midwest region could control less than half of the 10 U.S. Senate seats for only the 4th time in 50 Years.
By Eric Ostermeier on June 20, 2012
When Iowa Republican Chuck Grassley won reelection for a sixth term in November 2010 he and his fellow Iowa U.S. Senator, Democratic Tom Harkin, were 11th on the all-time list for the longest-serving delegation members serving together to the nation's upper legislative chamber. After the first 17+ months of the...
By Eric Ostermeier on June 12, 2012
Democrats would have to win 64 percent of the House races they are contesting - something the party has achieved only once since 1992.
By Eric Ostermeier on April 23, 2012
Boswell has endured the bumpiest ride back to the U.S. House of the 135 representatives with 15+ years of uninterrupted service.
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 February 17, 2012
Five states have yet to elect a woman to Congress including two in the Upper Midwest.
By Eric Ostermeier on January 4, 2012
The Minnesota congresswoman sets a trio of unwelcome records after her poor showing in Iowa Tuesday.
By Eric Ostermeier on January 3, 2012
Santorum could be the only presidential candidate to win the Iowa caucuses and no other state; the current low mark is held by Tom Harkin in 1992 with just two states.
