Patrick Ottenhoff is an analyst for New Media Strategies and a former staff writer for the National Journal Group. He also writes a blog called The Electoral Map, which covers the intersection of politics and geography. Ottenhoff is a native of Virginia, and graduated from Union College in Schenectady, N.Y.

Blog Entries by Patrick Ottenhoff

Super Tuesday Rundown: The Southern States

Posted February 4, 2008 | 11:24 PM (EST)


For the first time in modern American political history, there will be a nationwide primary on Tuesday, February 5. Many of 24 states that moved their primaries to earlier dates did so with the hopes of getting the kind of attention that the candidates and national media give to Iowa,...

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Super Tuesday Rundown: Northeastern and Midwestern States

Posted February 3, 2008 | 09:41 PM (EST)


For the first time in modern American political history, there will be a nationwide primary on Tuesday, February 5. Many of 23 states that moved their primaries to earlier dates did so with the hopes of getting the kind of attention that the candidates and national media give to Iowa,...

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