West Virginia GOP Seeks Rare Unseating of Democratic US Senator in 2018
Joe Manchin is attempting to win the 21st consecutive U.S. Senate reelection bid by a Mountain State Democrat Earlier this week two-term Republican Congressman Evan Jenkins of West Virginia’s 3rd...
View ArticleWill 2018 Produce Any New All-GOP Congressional Delegations?
The Republican Party’s hold on every congressional seat could increase from nine to 12 states after the 2018 cycle Despite the fear of a potential anti-Trump backlash at the polls in 17 months,...
View ArticleHow Many Trump States Will Back Democratic US Senate Nominees in 2018?
The 10 Trump states with Democratic incumbents have voted for senate nominees from the opposing party of the sitting president 62 percent of the time over the last 50 years Less than a year and a half...
View ArticleWhere Are All the Senate Bids by GOP US Representatives?
Only one of the 73 Republican U.S. House members from Trump states with Democratic US Senators on the 2018 ballot has mounted a challenge With 23 Democratic U.S. Senators up for reelection in 2018,...
View ArticleYawners: 9 States Without a Close US Senate Race in 30+ Years
Maryland’s last close Senate election took place during Nixon’s first midterm with four other states also not hosting a competitive contest since the 1970s Earlier this month, Smart Politics profiled...
View ArticleA Brief Look at State Executive Officials without Partisan Allies
John Perdue of West Virginia joins a half-dozen other officeholders who are currently surrounded by state executive officials from the opposing political party When Governor Jim Justice announced he...
View ArticleJoe Manchin Turns in 3rd Weakest US Senate Renomination Bid In West Virginia...
It had been 78 years since an incumbent from either party garnered less support in a Mountain State U.S. Senate primary All eyes were on the Republican U.S. Senate primary in West Virginia Tuesday...
View ArticleDon Blankenship’s 3rd Party US Senate Campaign Would Shatter West Virginia...
Non-major party candidates have left the faintest of footprints in Mountain State U.S. Senate races over the decades Former energy mogul Don Blankenship hinted that his 2018 U.S. Senate campaign was...
View ArticleLibertarian Gubernatorial Nominees Set Record Highs in Four States
The nation’s third largest party continues to make bigger footprints in multiple statewide races Smart Politics recently profiled the record-setting performances Libertarians and other third party...
View Article117th Congress Will Have Fewest Split US Senate Delegations in History
The chamber will see a record low in the direct election era, even if each party wins a seat in Georgia The unseating of three incumbents in the 2020 U.S. Senate elections may or may not have impacted...
View ArticleGeorgia Democrats Eye US Senate Electoral Rarity
Only two times in U.S. Senate history have both incumbents from the same state been unseated in the same cycle Smart Politics has previously written about the nearly five-dozen cases in which both U.S....
View ArticleThe Quick Rebound: A Brief History of Defeated US Senators Elected in the...
Since 1914, less than a dozen U.S. Senators have been unseated and subsequently elected back to the chamber two years later Georgia Republican David Perdue’s journey from U.S. Senator, to losing...
View ArticleA Brief History of Ex-Governor US Senate Delegations
There have been three-dozen pairs of ex-governor U.S. Senate delegations during the direct election era, including two in the 117th Congress Republicans have so far seen five U.S. Senators up for...
View ArticleDean Heller Attempts Rarity With Gubernatorial Bid
Since 1900, only seven defeated U.S. Senators subsequently won the governorship of their state Earlier this summer, Smart Politics profiled the expected gubernatorial candidacy of Dean Heller detailing...
View ArticleRepublicans Seek Rare Back-to-Back US Senate Wins in Three States in 2024
GOP wins in Montana, West Virginia, or Wisconsin would give the party rare wins in two consecutive elections to the nation’s upper legislative chamber Republicans are salivating at the number of...
View ArticleWill Joe Manchin Run for Governor Again?
Only two ex-governors have attempted a comeback in state history Just as the door to elected statewide office for Democrats in West Virginia seemed to be shut and sealed, reports came out last week...
View ArticleHow Many Low Water Marks Will West Virginia Democrats Reach in 2024?
The 2020 cycle saw the party turn in century-plus worst showings for six statewide offices The steep and swift decline of the Democratic Party in West Virginia rivals perhaps that of any other state in...
View ArticleIn How Many States Will Harris Fail to Win 30 Percent of the Vote?
Democratic futility in statewide presidential elections has outpaced that by the GOP by more than four to one across the nation’s 50 states since 1964 In the 2020 election, Joe Biden not only increased...
View ArticleHow Many US Senate Seats Will Flip in November?
The 2024 cycle could become just the third in history with partisan control changing in just one state With challenging parties within striking distance of winning several U.S. Senate seats this cycle,...
View ArticleTrump Breaks Republican Presidential Nominee Records in Three States
Trump also won the largest percentage of the vote by any party’s presidential nominee in two of these states While the final vote tallies will not be certified for a few weeks, it appears Donald...
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