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History Gives Luther Strange Long Odds in US Senate Primary Runoff
No appointed US Senator has ever won a primary runoff and only two incumbents who placed second in the initial primary have done so As Luther Strange and Roy Moore suit up for Election Day in Alabama...
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9th Time’s a Charm: Can Democrats Win Alabama’s US Senate Special Election?
Only five of 55 U.S. Senate partisan winning streaks of eight in a row have been halted in the subsequent contest during the direct election era When Roy Moore defeated establishment pick and incumbent...
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Doug Jones Victory Would Give Alabama Rare Split US Senate Delegation
The Yellowhammer State is tied with Kansas for the fewest years of sending lawmakers to the Senate from different political parties over the last century The prospects of Alabamans electing a Democrat...
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Democrats and Republicans Currently Have Record US Senate Winning Streaks in...
Only one region of the country is regularly seeing both parties win U.S. Senate seats in the vast majority of its states In a recent Smart Politics profile of Alabama’s forthcoming U.S. Senate special...
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Jones vs Moore Just 3rd US Senate Special Election Held in December
Thirty-one of 175 specials conducted since 1913 have been held outside of November with just 22 during odd-numbered years With Election Day in November now come and gone, only one high profile race...
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The Shortest-Serving U.S. Senators in Alabama History
Ten of the state’s 41 men and women who were sworn into the chamber served less than one year Barring a too-close-to-call nail biter, Alabamans will know who their 42nd U.S. Senator is by the end of...
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Eight Is Enough: Alabama Democrats Make the Record Books
Doug Jones’ victory marks just the sixth time out of 56 attempts that an eight-election partisan U.S. Senate winning streak has come to an end during the direct election era The win by Doug Jones over...
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Number of Plurality-Winning US Senators Nears Century-Long High
Doug Jones’ victory last month brings the total of senators elected to the chamber with a plurality of the vote to 14 – tied for the most in 95+ years Democrat Doug Jones’ victory over Roy Moore in...
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No 20-Year Club in the 116th Congress
Prior to Jeff Sessions’ departure in 2017, it had been 30+ years since the last time the chamber did not contain at least one state delegation whose members had served two decades together While...
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Partisan Gubernatorial Election Records Abound in 2018 Cycle
Democrats and Republicans in 18 states have now set or tied their longest gubernatorial winning streak in party history Heading into the 2018 cycle, Democrats and Republicans in 15 states were aiming...
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Doug Ducey Will Become 14th Governor to Appoint 2 US Senators Since 1913
Only three other governors have made more than one appointment to the chamber during the last 64 years Senator Jon Kyl’s decision to resign from the U.S. Senate at the end of the year means Arizona...
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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 US Representatives Will Win Senate Seats in 2020?
Fourteen have been elected to the senate during the last three cycles As is customarily the case each cycle, several sitting and former U.S. Representatives are lining up for a run at the nation’s...
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Bellwether States for Partisan Control of the US Senate
Seven states have elected U.S. Senators into the majority party of the subsequent Congress 70+ percent of the time over the last century, but no state has done so in each of its last four elections...
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States, States Everywhere But Nary a Bellwether in Sight
Wisconsin saw its streak backing the eventual Democratic presidential nominee in every primary since 1972 end when voters backed Bernie Sanders in 2016 From cycle to cycle – and 2020 is no exception –...
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