New Hampshire
By Eric Ostermeier on April 8, 2013
Nearly 40 percent of New Hampshire U.S. Senators in state history have been educated in Massachusetts and more than one in six were born in the Bay State.
By Eric Ostermeier on November 7, 2012
Democratic pick-ups by Carol Shea-Porter and Ann Kuster in the Granite State's two U.S. House districts gives New Hampshire the nation's first ever all-female D.C. delegation.
By Eric Ostermeier on November 1, 2012
A dozen media outlets still yield 10 different battleground state maps less than a week from Election Day, with an average of nine states and 114 electoral votes hanging in the balance.
By Eric Ostermeier on June 18, 2012
Democrats and Republicans in New Hampshire, Indiana, Minnesota, and Idaho have fielded candidates in each of the last 100+ U.S. House races in their respective states.
By Eric Ostermeier on January 11, 2012
The Texas governor receives less support in the Granite State than many forgotten presidential candidates.
By Eric Ostermeier on January 8, 2012
The GOP frontrunner doubles up on Paul, Gingrich, and Huntsman and triples the speaking time of Perry.
By Eric Ostermeier on December 14, 2011
Paul's support is up 100 percent in Iowa and 50 percent in the Granite State from his '08 campaign peaks.
By Eric Ostermeier on August 26, 2011
Paul's Top 4 states in large donor per capita individual contributions are identical in 2012 from his 2008 presidential bid.
By Eric Ostermeier on July 19, 2011
None of Minnesota's 134 U.S. Representatives or 39 Senators were born in the Granite State.
By Eric Ostermeier on June 15, 2011
Mitt Romney landed the most jabs at Obama among the seven candidates; Herman Cain and Ron Paul, meanwhile, pulled the most punches.
By Eric Ostermeier on June 14, 2011
Romney spoke for 11 minutes and 21 seconds with five other candidates clocking in at less than 9 minutes and 40 seconds; Pawlenty came in second with 10:51.
By Eric Ostermeier on April 9, 2010
Women are still proportionally underrepresented in 48 states, with 19 states and 22 percent of the nation's population without a female U.S. Senator or Representative
By Eric Ostermeier on March 15, 2010
Wyoming, New Hampshire and Iowa lead the nation for the most competitive U.S. House races since 2002; Massachusetts, Alabama, Arkansas, and New York the least competitive
By Eric Ostermeier on January 10, 2008
In addition to the media, pollsters have been on the defensive during the last two days trying to offer explanations for missing out in a big way on Hillary Clinton's victory in New Hampshire on Tuesday night. One such pollster, American Research Group (ARG), has offered an interesting spin on...
By Eric Ostermeier on January 9, 2008
The media had to throw out their script Tuesday night as the Democratic election returns came in during the New Hampshire primary. The print media who wrote Hillary Clinton's obituary that morning and the broadcast media who spent the hours preceding the election results asking, "What happened to Hillary?" have...
By Eric Ostermeier on January 8, 2008
Smart Politics will continue to monitor and update the official New Hampshire primary results tonight. These are raw vote numbers provided by reported precincts, not a scientific random sample: 7:02 p.m. Democrats (11 percent reporting) Clinton = 38% Obama = 36% Edwards = 17% Richardson = 4% Kucinich = 2%...
By Eric Ostermeier on January 8, 2008
Smart Politics will be blogging live tonight at 7 p.m. CST when the polls close in New Hampshire. Smart Politics will report up-to-the minute election returns as well as provide analysis of not only the results but also the media coverage of today's political festivities....
By Eric Ostermeier on January 7, 2008
Twenty-three polls of New Hampshire voters by 10 polling organizations have been released since the Iowa caucuses last Thursday evening (including eight this morning). What can we glean from these surveys? While Barack Obama has noticed a significant bounce from his Iowa victory that appears to have him poised to...
By Eric Ostermeier on December 3, 2007
An Associated Press / Pew Research Center poll of likely voters in three early primary states finds Hillary Clinton leading Barack Obama by substantial margins in New Hampshire and South Carolina, but by just 5 points in Iowa. John Edwards registered in double digits in each state, but trailed Clinton...
By Eric Ostermeier on June 6, 2007
Ten Republican presidential candidates debated at St. Anselm College in Manchester, New Hampshire on Tuesday night in their third debate this campaign season. As a follow-up to our previous Smart Politics entry, the Republicans departed starkly from their Democratic counterparts, who debated at St. Anselm on Sunday night, on the...
