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Mississippi to Hold Its First Ever Competitive GOP Presidential Primary
The state’s most competitive race has been a 34-point blow-out since its first Republican presidential primary in 1980 Whether or not the two Republican primaries in the deep south Tuesday will be as...
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Unusual Exits: 6 Members of Congress Killed by Accidental Gunshots
Hunting moose…hunting ducks…cleaning a shotgun…a half-dozen members of Congress learned too late about the importance of firearms safety This is the second in a series of reports on unusual deaths that...
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Going Green: Alabama’s Soon to Be Inexperienced US House Delegation
The Yellowhammer State is on a path to notch one of its least experienced U.S. House delegations over the last 100 years When the 114th Congress convenes in January 2015, at least two members of the...
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Status Quo in Uncompetitive Alabama 1st CD Special
Only one Democrat has won 40 percent of the vote in 25 Yellowhammer State 1st CD races since 1966 Republican Bradley Byrne’s ho-hum victory over Democrat Burton LeFlore Tuesday in Alabama’s 1st...
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Landslides Ahead: Major Parties Still Lack 2014 US Senate Candidates in 8 States
It has been 96 years since the last time a major party did not field a candidate in eight or more U.S. Senate races With just a shade over 300 days remaining until Election Day, and months less until...
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Democrats Fail to Field a US Senate Nominee for Just 26th Time in History
Failing to run a candidate in Alabama this cycle, Democrats now account for nine of the last 11 U.S. Senate elections since 2000 with only one major party candidate on the ballot It took quite a while...
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42 Members of Congress Who Were Born in Scotland
Twenty states have been represented in Congress by a Scottish-born U.S. Representative or U.S. Senator, including one Speaker of the House Scottish voters went to the polls Thursday to vote on a...
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Rock Bottom: Democrats Hit Multiple Low Water Marks in US Senate Elections
Ten of the 34 states with U.S. Senate races in 2014 found the Democratic Party endure one of its three worst performances in the direct election era Losing at least seven U.S. Senate seats in 2014 –...
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Which 16 States Have Never Been on Michelle Obama’s SOTU Guest List?
More than 135 guests have appeared with the First Lady since the president’s first SOTU speech in 2010, but none from 16 states When the State of the Union guest list for Michelle Obama was announced...
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Democrats Winning Governorships at Lowest Rate Since 1900
Not only are Democrats losing gubernatorial elections at a rate not seen in 100+ years, but the party’s nominees are losing badly As Democrats eye a potential pick up in Louisiana’s gubernatorial...
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The Dirty Dozen: 12 States Never to Appear on Michelle Obama’s SOTU Guest List
More than 160 guests have appeared with the First Lady since the president’s first State of the Union speech in 2010, but none from 12 states Barack Obama will give his seventh official State of the...
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A Party Divided? Republican US Senators Setting Record Lows in Primaries
GOP U.S. Senators continue to win renomination, but many state party records are falling with the worst ever showings by Republican incumbents With just a few Northeastern states yet to hold their...
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The Worst Statewide Performances by Winning Democratic Presidential Nominees
Even victorious Democratic nominees have a few rotten eggs on their electoral scorecards, with 10 failing to win even 30 percent of the vote across nearly three-dozen states Most poll-driven electoral...
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114th Congress Just 3rd in History to Have No Turnover in US Senate
Each of these three congresses have convened during the last 20 years If Jeff Sessions is confirmed by his colleagues to be the next U.S. Attorney General, the nation’s upper legislative chamber will...
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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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A Brief History of Alabama Governors Who Exited Office Early
Bentley’s tenure lasted just 10 days shy of Guy Hunt who was removed from office 24 years prior Alabama has elected four Republican governors since the end of Reconstruction – and now two of them have...
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Luther Strange and a Brief History of the Electoral Fate of Appointed US...
Only 56 percent of appointed U.S. Senators running to keep their seat have been victorious over the last half-century The number of Republican candidates lining up to challenge Luther Strange in...
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Will Luther Strange Lose Alabama’s GOP US Senate Nomination?
Only five out of 60 Republican appointed senators seeking to keep their seat over the last 100+ years lost their party’s nomination in the next election With 10 Republican candidates appearing on...
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Roy Moore: Age Is Just a Number
It’s been nearly 60 years since Americans have elected a freshman U.S. Senator as old as the Alabama septuagenarian With five weeks to go before Alabama’s Republican U.S. Senate primary runoff, former...
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Record Partisan Gubernatorial Winning Streaks On the Line in 2018
Record partisan winning streaks in races for governor can be extended, broken, or tied in 15 states holding elections in 2018 Just as Republicans hope to pick off several U.S. Senate seats in the...
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