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South Dakota Edges Minnesota for Largest Population Growth Rate in Midwest

By Eric Ostermeier on December 22, 2010
South Dakota ends a string of three consecutive decades in which Minnesota led the 12-state region in rate of growth

South Dakota Continues Record Unemployment Streak, Despite Uptick to 4.5 Percent

By Eric Ostermeier on December 16, 2010
The Mount Rushmore State has now gone more than 27 years without eclipsing the 5 percent jobless mark - best in the nation

Upper Midwestern Republicans Reach Five-Decade High in State House Seats

By Eric Ostermeier on December 10, 2010
After the 2010 election, GOP holds 311 of 497 lower chamber seats in IA, MN, ND, SD, and WI (62.2 percent) - the highest level since 1968 election (68.0 percent)

Republican Dominance over Upper Midwestern Governorships through the Years

By Eric Ostermeier on November 30, 2010
Republicans have controlled the governor's mansions of IA, MN, ND, SD, and WI for over 72 percent of the time since 1846

Did an Independent Turn South Dakota's 2010 U.S. House Race?

By Eric Ostermeier on November 14, 2010
B.Thomas Marking turns in the best performance by a South Dakota U.S. House independent or third party candidate in 80 years

South Dakota Democratic State Senate Delegation Slashed to 44-Year Low

By Eric Ostermeier on November 5, 2010
Democratic delegation to State Senate cut by more than half on Tuesday

Smart Politics Projections: South Dakota U.S. House

By Eric Ostermeier on November 1, 2010
Congresswoman Herseth Sandlin has no padding at the top of the ticket

Smart Politics Projections: South Dakota House

By Eric Ostermeier on November 1, 2010
Republicans to flirt with 50-seat mark once again in lower chamber

Smart Politics Projections: South Dakota State Senate

By Eric Ostermeier on November 1, 2010
Strong Republican presence at top of the ticket to boost GOP advantage in State Senate

Election Profile: South Dakota's At-Large Congressional Seat

By Eric Ostermeier on October 29, 2010
Democrats won the first seven at-large races, and 11 of 15 overall, since the number of South Dakota's representatives dropped from two to one in 1982

Minnesota Unemployment Numbers and Trends at a Glance

By Eric Ostermeier on August 24, 2010
Gopher State job data trend lines generally favorable compared to the nation and the Upper Midwest region

Loss by Herseth Sandlin in 2010 South Dakota US House Race Would Be Historic

By Eric Ostermeier on August 16, 2010
Defeat of four-term Democratic Congresswoman would mark biggest fall since statehood for a South Dakota U.S. House incumbent in back-to-back contested elections

Can the DFL Win Minnesota's Governorship in the Face of a GOP Sweep of its Upper Midwestern Neighbors?

By Eric Ostermeier on August 2, 2010
Democrats have won gubernatorial elections in Minnesota only four times since statehood without also holding one of its neighboring four states; last time was 1954

Will the GOP Sweep North and South Dakota's U.S. House Seats?

By Eric Ostermeier on April 26, 2010
Republicans have never carried both single-member at-large districts in the same election cycle; Democrats have won 25 of 29 U.S. House contests in the Dakotas since 1982

Will Margaret Anderson Kelliher Break the Upper Midwestern Glass Ceiling?

By Eric Ostermeier on April 25, 2010
Just 17 women have appeared on the gubernatorial ballot in 257 elections across Minnesota, Iowa, South Dakota, and Wisconsin; only 2 from major political parties

Democratic Party Failure to Field Candidate in South Dakota U.S. Senate Race Is Historic

By Eric Ostermeier on April 15, 2010
The South Dakota Democratic Party's plunge from 49 percent of the vote in 2004 to falling off the ballot in 2010 is the greatest in the nation since the end of WWII

Can the GOP Sweep All Four Upper Midwestern Gubernatorial Contests in November?

By Eric Ostermeier on January 11, 2010
Republicans have swept nearly half the gubernatorial election cycles in the region over the past 100 years, including 1990 and 1994

Housing Foreclosure Rate Up 56 Percent in Minnesota from One Year Ago

By Eric Ostermeier on December 22, 2009
Gopher State jumps from 26th highest foreclosure rate in nation to 18th highest over the last 12 months

Democratic Gubernatorial Drought in Minnesota Is 3rd Longest in the Nation

By Eric Ostermeier on December 17, 2009
Politically schizophrenic Gopher State's 23-year dry spell without a DFL gubernatorial victory trails only GOP strongholds of South Dakota and Utah for longest in the U.S.

Minnesota and South Dakota Unemployment Rates Rise; Wisconsin Remains Flat

By Eric Ostermeier on November 20, 2009
Unemployment in Minnesota has increased 35.7 percent from one year ago

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Political Crumbs

Governor vs. Governor vs. Governor

May 16, 2012

The last election cycle saw five ex-governors attempt to win back their old jobs, with success stories in California (Jerry Brown), Iowa (Terry Branstad), and Oregon (John Kitzhaber). But in 1904, the State of Wisconsin saw three governors on the general election ballot: two-term Republican incumbent Robert La Follette, former two-term Democratic Governor William Peck (elected in 1890 and 1892), and former two-term Republican Governor Edward Scofield (elected in 1896 and 1898). La Follette - with Teddy Roosevelt at the top of the ticket winning the presidency - cruised to an 11.3-point victory over Peck with 50.5 percent of the vote. Scofield ran a distant fourth on the National Republican ticket with just 2.7 percent - also losing to Social Democrat William Arnold who received 5.5 percent, but beating Prohibition and Socialist Labor candidates.


A Vote for No One

May 9, 2012

More than 50,000 North Carolina residents who voted in the Tuesday's Republican presidential primary opted for 'no preference' on their ballot, or 5.2 percent. That marks the second highest percentage of those who have done so in the 40 years of the modern primary era, behind the 9.8 percent who indicated no preference during George H.W. Bush's rout over Pat Buchanan in the state twenty years ago in 1992. In 2008, 4.0 percent were likewise noncommittal, with 1.7 percent voting no preference in 2000, 3.8 percent in 1996, 1.0 percent in 1988, 2.7 percent in 1980, and 1.7 percent in 1976.


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