The 2014 primary season ends (Sept. 9: DE, MA, NH, NY, RI)

[LeBron]

With 6% in, Ricketts leads Bruning 30-27 with Foley in 3rd at 19% and McCoy at 17%. Bruning is the endorsed candidate in this race from term-limited Governor Heineman, but Rickett has the cash advantage from his wealthy father. Ricketts lost a Senate race in 2006 to Ben Nelson and Bruning lost the primary in 2012. Bruning is also the same "Stand Your Ground" Attorney General who filed a lawsuit against the ACA and has views on abortion that make Rick Berg seem reasonable. Still, I'm hoping Bruning takes out the self-funder.

In the Treasurer race, Don Stenberg (R), is coasting to re-election against Costello who works as treasurer of Douglas County. This is a massive sign that the storms really did hurt Costello here.

Secretary of State John Gale (R) goes unopposed in his primary to no surprise.

In the Attorney General race, Doug Peterson (R), a Lincoln lawyer (not the NFL guy) leads the field with 31% of the vote to replace Bruning. Dems haven't held this seat since Truman was President, so Democrats obviously have no chance at the open seat.

And the Auditor race seems to be going the way of State Senator Charlie Janssen (R) who originally was in the Governor race this year.

[LeBron]

Parker Griffith, the same Democrat who stole a bunch of Pelosi's money in his 2008 House race and was reinstated into the same party after leaving it for Republicans and has a 95% ACU rating, unfortunately will be the AL Democratic Party's nominee against Gov. Bentley who's projected to beat his two GOP challengers easily, 88-6-5. Kevin Bass, the other Democrat, had a good performance to say the least though, losing 61-39.

In South Dakota, Gov. Daugaard (R), a popular and uncontroversial GOP Governor, beats his primary challenger easily 82-18 with 44% in. It looks like State Rep. Susan Wismer will be the Democratic nominee leading 56-44, but that hasn't been called yet. Either way, a safe R seat.

And Gary King now leads with 33% of the vote with a small double digit lead over Rael and Webber, but only 12% is reporting. If King does get the nomination, then it will probably just be a matter of name ID and I would imagine a lot of Democrats will stay at home because of King in November.

[LeBron]

Mississippi Senate (Runoff)
Chris McDaniel - 58%
Thad Cochran - 42%

Maryland Governor:
Democratic Primary
Anthony Brown - 54%
Doug Gansler - 33%
Heather Mizeur - 11%
Other - 2%

Republican Primary
Larry Hogan - 48%
David Craig - 25%
Charles Lollar - 17%
Ron George - 7%
Other - 2%


Colorado Governor
Republican Primary
Tom Tancredo - 38%
Bob Beauprez - 29%
Scott Gessler - 20%
Mike Kopp - 13%

Oklahoma Governor
Republican Primary
Mary Fallin - 86%
Chad Moody - 11%
Dax Ewbank - 3% (Love that name xD)

Oklahoma Senate (S)
Republican Primary
*James Lankford - 48%
*T.W. Shannon - 41%
Randy Brogdon - 8%
Other - 3%

Democratic Primary
Constance Johnson - 44%
Jim Rogers - 38%
Patrick Hayes - 18%

Oklahoma Senate (G)
Republican Primary
Jim Inhofe - 79%
Erick Wyatt - 9%
Rob Moye - 5%
D. Jean McBride-Samuels - 4%
Evelyn Rogers - 3%


- McDaniel I think should be able to pull out a double digit win over Cochran.

- Brown has all of the establishment support behind him in the state, has name ID, has a record to go off of in O'Malley's successful administration (especially with social issues) and should be able to win fairly easily over the anti-O'Malley candidate and the progressive, Emily's List candidate.

- The CO Dem establishment wisely pulled a McCaskill and ran "negative" ads against Tancredo calling him the true conservative, so he should pull it out over Beauprez, hopefully.

- With the cases of Inhofe and Fallin, we're not the only ones who hate them, so there will be defectees, but their candidates are all perennials and don't stand a chance at knocking either off. Lankford/Shannon and Johnson/Rogers I believe go to a runoff - Johnson got some late support apparently, so I could be wrong.

[LeBron]

Tennessee's Democratic primary has a bunch of no names for Governor, though surprisingly, a guy by the name of Charles Brown is leading elected county official John McKarney 39-29 in the early returns. The TN Democratic Party is really in a wreck if they really do get a perennial candidate as their nominee tonight, but at least his name is the same as Peanuts lol.

But man do the Republicans have a decision tonight! They're choosing between their incumbent, relatively moderate Republican Governor, a wildlife artist lol, former raccoon owner Mark "Coonrippy" Brown and singer Basil Marceaux.com who will "do his issues" if elected. Tough decision.

[LeBron]

Well, this sucks. Haslam's winning with about 90% of the vote and is already the projected winner. Coonrippy's only getting 6% to Marceaux's 2%. Marceaux was supposed to clean house.