Map of the Day: Obama All Alone in the Lone Star State?
Texas's multiple personalities welcome (or don't) the president More »
Patrick Ottenhoff has been writing The Electoral Map blog since 2007. A former staff writer for National Journal Group and project manager at New Media Strategies, he now attends Georgetown's McDonough School of Business. More
Texas's multiple personalities welcome (or don't) the president More »
Remembering how Californians -- and, by proxy, Americans -- came down on the gay marriage proposition More »
Sarah Palin's messaging to moms could erode the Democrats' base More »
What would an ethnically divided Middle East look like? More »
The geographic center of gravity for the new Tea Party Caucus is in Oklahoma -- significantly different from that of the House of Representatives at large More »
How campaigns would change if candidates had to work for individual votes More »
Illustrating the tribal, marginal nature of the violence in Afghanistan More »
The Virginia senator has a point when he says that not all White Anglo-Saxon Protestants are alike More »
A new study finds that West Coasters and Southerners are generally happier than Midwesterners and Northeasterners -- though everyone's happier on Friday nights More »
Even Hawaii is losing enthusiasm for its homegrown president. Joe Biden's Delaware, however, gave Obama a tiny boost More »
White voters in Georgia were less likely to vote for Obama if they lived in mostly black areas More »
The Washington Post maps the country's "top secret" states -- i.e., the ones that employ the most people for intelligence contracting projects More »
Wealth no longer translates to a Republican vote More »
Among the 17 nations who both practice the death penalty and ban gays from the military, the U.S. is accompanied by the likes of North Korea and Iran More »
Mapping the 37 most vulnerable districts for Democrats come November More »
Europe is divided between drinkers of wine, beer, and hard liquor More »
Our embarrassingly haphazard energy grid, and how to fix it More »
What if every state that has threatened to secede actually did? More »
What each region of the country was growing (and grilling) on the Fourth of July More »
The economy lost 125,000 jobs last month, but Moody's predicts a rise in private-sector jobs in 2011 More »
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