Wisconsin
By Eric Ostermeier on May 22, 2012
The last time Florida Republicans held both Senate seats was 1875; WI (1957), ND (1960), and NE (1976) could also see an end to a decades-long Democratic presence in its state delegations.
By Eric Ostermeier on May 18, 2012
Governors in the Badger State have kept their job in 34 of 46 contests since statehood, or 74 percent of the time.
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 10, 2012
Losing gubernatorial candidates have come back for rematches against victorious Republicans and beat them two times out of the six rematches in Wisconsin history.
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 17, 2012
Republicans have won 15 of 28 general election U.S. Senate contests after holding a contested primary and just 1 of 8 when uncontested.
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 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 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 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.
By Eric Ostermeier on February 7, 2012
Utah, Connecticut, and Texas lead the way in large donor per capita contributions to Republican presidential candidates with Wisconsin, Arkansas, and Indiana at the bottom.
By Eric Ostermeier on January 13, 2012
Only an acting governor and a governor who died on a Civil War relief expedition will have served fewer days in office than Walker.
By Eric Ostermeier on December 28, 2011
Wisconsin's John Byrnes won the last presidential contest for a sitting GOP U.S. House member 48 years ago; John Anderson came close in Massachusetts and Vermont in 1980.
By Eric Ostermeier on September 7, 2011
Baldwin vies to become the second woman to receive a major party nod in a Badger State U.S. Senate contest joining Republican Susan Engeleiter.
By Eric Ostermeier on August 10, 2011
Turnout across six recall elections Tuesday was just 40,000 votes shy of top of the ticket voting in 2010's gubernatorial race.
By Eric Ostermeier on August 9, 2011
Democrats have recorded cycle-to-cycle gains of three or more Badger State Senate seats just 10 times over the last 64 election cycles since the mid-1880s.
By Eric Ostermeier on July 15, 2011
More than a dozen states have never popularly elected a GOP Senator while voting for a Democratic presidential nominee in the same cycle; will any break with tradition in 2012?
By Eric Ostermeier on May 18, 2011
No ex- (non-sitting) Wisconsin governor has ever been elected to a 1st term in the U.S. Senate
By Eric Ostermeier on April 18, 2011
106-cycle span finds just one Supreme Court race closer than April's election in the Badger State
By Eric Ostermeier on April 11, 2011
Only six Wisconsin Supreme Court incumbents have been defeated in state history across more than 120 contests
