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Will Wisconsin Follow Iowa’s Trump Surge?
The two Midwestern states have voted in unison in presidential elections nearly 90 percent of the time The tightening of the presidential race over the last month has seen Donald Trump take the lead in...
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Record Number of GOP US Senate Nominees Could Get Elected in States Won by...
Republicans would break a party record if eight U.S. Senate nominees are elected from states voting Democratic for president Smart Politics has written extensively over the years on split-ticket voting...
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Joe Miller Shatters Libertarian US Senate Record While 8 Others Set New State...
The nation’s third largest political party notched by far its most successful election cycle in races to the nation’s upper legislative chamber While Alaska’s Joe Miller came up short for a third time...
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Jeff Sessions, Richard Shelby and the Longest-Serving US Senate Delegation...
The Alabama duo served alongside one another for the 27th longest stretch in the chamber’s history After the U.S. Senate confirmed Alabama Republican Jeff Sessions to be the nation’s next Attorney...
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Iowa GOP Seeks Clean Sweep of Congressional Delegation for 1st Time Since 1954
It has been more than 60 years since the last time Republicans held all U.S. House and Senate seats in the Hawkeye State The 2016 cycle was a banner year for the Republican Party in Iowa – seeing its...
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The Top 50 Longest Serving Governors in US History (Updated)
Jerry Brown is poised to end up #3 on the all-time list of statehood gubernatorial service Four years ago Smart Politics sifted through the tenures of the thousands of men and women to serve as...
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Chuck Grassley: Win One for the…Grim Reaper?
One in six former Iowa U.S. Senators died in office – although none in 80+ years Among the pitches Chuck Grassley made last week as to why Iowans should vote for Republican Kim Reynolds in next month’s...
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Iowa Democrats Make Run At History in 2018 Congressional Races
A Democratic sweep of all four congressional districts would leave Iowans without a GOP member in its U.S. House delegation for the first time since the mid-1850s The decade has not been kind to Iowa...
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Axne Records Rare Plurality Win in Iowa US House Race
The 3rd CD member-elect is just the sixth candidate to win without the support of a majority of voters in the state out of more than 250 U.S. House elections since 1940 While Iowa Democrats did not...
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Three Midwestern States Host Most Competitive Gubernatorial Elections in More...
Iowa, South Dakota, and Wisconsin each had unusually close races for governor this cycle As expected, multiple gubernatorial seats in the Midwest flipped to the Democrats during the 2018 midterms with...
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Steve King Could Become 1st Iowa US Rep to Lose Renomination Bid Since 1940s
Iowa U.S. Representatives have won each of their last 196 renomination bids since the 1950 cycle Many Democrats have long wished Steve King would be unseated from his Western Iowa congressional...
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King’s Candidacy Could Lead Iowa to an Electoral First in 2020
Iowa may be represented by different political parties in its 117th Congress U.S. House and U.S. Senate delegations for the first time in state history Steve King doubled-down this past week in the...
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Loebsack to Quietly Exit US House
Over the last half-century, only five of Iowa’s 25 exiting U.S. Representatives did not seek reelection or another elected office Seven-term Democratic U.S. House member Dave Loebsack announced he...
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Iowa GOP Seeks 1st Unseating of Freshman US Rep in More Than a Half-Century
Iowa freshmen U.S. Representatives have won their last 22 reelection bids since 1968 Former Iowa U.S. Representative David Young officially announced earlier this week that he would vie to take back...
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How Many States Will Split Their Presidential and US Senate Vote in 2020?
The 2016 cycle was the first in history in which no state saw its voters split its ticket for these two offices One of the most unusual facets of the 2016 election is that it marked the first time in...
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How Many Midwestern States Does the 2020 Democratic Nominee Need to Carry to...
Democratic nominees have won the White House in every cycle since the formation of the Republican Party in which they carried at least half of the region’s states Only six states flipped their partisan...
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