Introduction; 1. A tale of two states; 2. Judicial elections then and now; 3. So what, do judicial elections matter?; 4. Contestation and competitiveness in state supreme court elections, 1946–2012; 5. Changes in supreme election campaigns, money, and advertising; 6. Patterns of partisanship in contested elections; 7. Patterns of partisanship in retention elections; 8. Judicial elections in a highly partisan world.