Partisanship
Is Representative Ryan Winkler the DFL’s New Attack Dog?
Partisan attacks by Winkler against GOP have more than quadrupled in press releases from 1st to 2nd term in office
Read MoreRepublicans Outnumber Democrats in Minnesota for First Time Since 2005
Study of nearly 70 SurveyUSA polls finds GOP holding first party ID advantage since October 2005; percentage of Minnesotans identifying as Republicans at highest level ever recorded by polling organization
Read MoreHow Do Members of Congress Use the American Flag in Their Reelection Campaigns?
Republican U.S. Representatives are 36 percent more likely to incorporate the American flag on campaign websites than Democrats
Read MoreIs Barack Obama Ignoring Red State Americans?
President has delivered 8 times the number of remarks outside Washington, D.C. in states he carried in 2008 than states won by John McCain
Read MoreIs Pawlenty Endorsement of Hoffman in NY-23 Contest the Death Knell for Liberal Republicans?
Pawlenty criticizes Republican nominee as someone “Undeserving of wearing the Republican jersey.”
Read MoreRed States Have Higher Crime Rates Than Blue States
Red states across the nation have both higher violent and property crime rates than blue states, across several measures of partisanship
Read MoreRepublican Opposition to Sotomayor Marks Largest Supreme Court Confirmation Vote Dissent in GOP History
Last week’s vote in the U.S. Senate confirming Sonia Sotomayor as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court was noteworthy foremost, of course, for Sotomayor being the first Hispanic and third woman to serve on the Court. But the Senate…
Read MoreRepublican Party ID Matches Democrats for First Time in Minnesota Since October 2005
The latest monthly SurveyUSA poll finds more Gopher State residents identifying as Republicans than at any point in more than four years. The new poll, conducted July 17-19 of 600 adults statewide, also finds Republicans now match the Democrats…
Read MoreBachmann Voting Record Is 2nd Least Supportive of Obama in U.S. House
Last month a Smart Politics analysis of the most conservative members of the U.S. House (as determined by National Journal’s annual rankings) found Representative Michele Bachmann to have received the smallest margin of victory of the 44 most conservative Republicans…
Read MoreHow Blue Are the Blue Dog Democrats?
Congressional Quarterly’s vote study for the first half of 2009 is in the books, and finds that House Democrats overall supported Barack Obama 91.1 percent of the time in which the President stated his clear policy preference on legislation that…
Read More