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Wisconsin’s election for Superintendent of Public Instruction was the most competitive race for the office since 1909 smartpolitics.lib.umn.edu/2025/04/02/wis…

A little perspective! We made history! The closest race in over 115 years! 🎉 smartpolitics.lib.umn.edu/2025/04/02/wis…

Mike Duggan in 2026 - just 3 out of 186 non-major party Michigan gubernatorial candidates have won 10+ percent since 1835. Two of those three were elected GOP officeholders at the time. tinyurl.com/yburtbdx

21 states hosted a competitive partisan statewide election (single digit MoV) in 2024; 40 states have hosted at least one competitive statewide election since 2018 tinyurl.com/4z3vr99f

Only one state has not held a partisan statewide election decided by single digits this century (Utah) tinyurl.com/4z3vr99f

Sitting or former Minnesota U.S. Representatives have won U.S. Senate seats in just four of 23 attempts smartpolitics.lib.umn.edu/2025/04/30/ang…

In the direct election era, ex- or sitting Minnesota US Reps have won US Senate seats in 1924 (Thomas Schall, 2nd attempt), 1936 (Ernest Lundeen, 4th attempt), 1958 (Eugene McCarthy), and 1994 (Rod Grams) smartpolitics.lib.umn.edu/2025/04/30/ang…

Maine’s Angus King III would actually be the 3rd Angus to serve as U.S. Governor smartpolitics.lib.umn.edu/2025/05/06/the…

Jeff Colyer tries to make history: ex-Kansas governors have failed in all nine attempts to return to the state’s highest elected post #KSgov tinyurl.com/3hcvzkyw

Ex-governors have subsequently appeared 9 times on a Kansas gubernatorial primary or general election ballot – and lost each time. Jeff Colyer poised to make a 10th attempt for ex-guvs in 2026. smartpolitics.lib.umn.edu/2025/05/14/jef…

John Cornyn has drawn nearly half of all primary challengers to Texas GOP U.S. Senators in state history tinyurl.com/6py4bt5j

Since 1978, Iowa Republicans have won 37 statewide executive offices and Democrats have won 33 smartpolitics.lib.umn.edu/2025/06/05/wil…

Between 1890 and 1974, Iowa Republicans swept all non-legislative statewide offices in 40 cycles, Democrats swept in five, and just five had split-ticket voting smartpolitics.lib.umn.edu/2025/06/05/wil…

Four incumbents could set state gubernatorial service records after 2026 smartpolitics.lib.umn.edu/2025/06/11/fou…

1 in 7 U.S. House elections in Iowa history have had a retread losing major party nominee on the general election ballot tinyurl.com/yjar98da

Nebraska could become the 1st state without a Democratic candidate on a U.S. Senate ballot in back-to-back cycles smartpolitics.lib.umn.edu/2025/07/11/wil…

A review of basketball players, owners, broadcasters, coaches, and referees who have made bids for state or federal office from Minnesota tinyurl.com/2p8yy3ny

The third episode of Running Mates is out. This is my podcast with Dakota Town Hall's @MurdocJ, in which we talk through the history of every US Presidential Election. You can find links to every episode here. sodakgovs.com/2025/07/03/new…

SOME PERSONAL NEWS: My biography of Harry Reid is available for pre-order and on sale Jan. 20! Exciting news for a project I started more than four years ago on the most powerful official in NV history and one of the more influential DC leaders ever. simonandschuster.com/books/The-Game…

Only one sitting or former North Carolina governor has been elected to the U.S. Senate during the last 70 years tinyurl.com/53nrpx7v