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Tonight features primary runoff elections in North Carolina, South Carolina, and Mississippi. There is also a primary in Utah, but thanks to their convention selection process that can select or weed out candidates (Bob Bennett was defeated in that process, for example), it has some similarities to a runoff election. Mississippi has very little going on, so the big events of the night are the GOP governor’s race in SC, the Dem Senate race in NC, and the GOP primary in UT. For a preview of the night’s races click here and you can find update election results at Politico.
Polls close at (all times Eastern):
SC – 7:00 pm
NC – 7:30 pm
MS – 8:00 pm (7 pm CT)
UT – 10:00 pm (8 pm MT)
7:00 – Polls now closed in South Carolina. It will still be awhile before we start getting real numbers though.
7:30 – Polls now closed in North Carolina. We also have the first very few results from SC. With less than 1% precincts reporting Nikki Haley 61 – Gresham Barrett 39.
7:45 – With 1% precincts reporting in NC the Senate Dem primary is Elaine Marshall 62 – Cal Cunningham 38.
8:00 – Polls closed in Mississippi now. With 6% of precincts reporting Haley holds a strong lead at 60-40. In the SC-01 race, Tim Scotts looks likely to be the first African American Republican member of Congress (in several years). With 8% reporting Scott 70.5 – Paul Thurmond 29.5
8:13 – As expected things are looking really good for Haley. 28% reporting she leads 64-36. On track to be the first female and Asian American governor of South Carolina. She should be the favorite in the general.
8:20 – Although it has not been called yet it looks like Republican Bob Inglis (SC-04) will be the last incumbent to be defeated in a primary. with 31% reporting it is Trey Gowdy 72 – Inglis 28. That seems like a pretty impossible deficit to overcome.
8:25 – Nikki Haley has just been declared winner of the South Carolina Republican primary. She is expect to be the favorite and November. Don’t be surprised if she quickly becomes a prominent face in the party as both a female of color and the governor of the one of the most important states in the 2012 Republican presidential primary calender.
8:30 – In North Carolina Elaine Marshall has just been declared win of the Democratic senate primary. She defeated the establishment back Cal Cunningham and had the endorsement of several grassroots progressive organizations. Marshall will take on incumbent Richard Burr in the general. Burr is the most vulnerable, if not the only potentially vulnerable, incumbent Republican senator right now. (I wonder who gets to anonymously call up Politico to yell about how the DSCC just flushed its donors money right down the toilet in North Carolina?)
8:40 – Its official incumbent Rep. Inglis (R SC-04) has just lost badly. Trey Gowdy has been declared the winner with 73-27 with 76% of precincts reporting.
8:45 – Republican Tim Scott has been declared the winner in SC-01. (The number of African American Republicans in Congress will likely skyrocket from zero to one after November.)
9:00 – National Republicans probably are breathing a sigh of relief. In NC-08 Harold Johnson won the Republican primary defeating the very strange Tom D’Annunzio.
9:05 – In NC-13 Bill Randall was declared the winner in the GOP primary.
9:27 – In a very close race Jeff Duncan has won the Republican primary in SC-03.
9:36 – Greg Dority has won the Republican primary in NC-12
9:46 – For what it is worth Bill Marcy has won the Republican primary in MS-02. He is a very big underdog in a very Democratic leaning district.
10:00 – Polls are now closed in Utah.
10:40 – Utah is very slow to report. We are at only 0.7% reporting statewide. Currently The Republican Senate primary is Mike Lee 54 – Tim Bridgewater 46.
11:15 – With 13% reporting it is Lee 51.5 – Bridgewater 48.5. In the Democratic primary in the 2nd district, with 10% reporting Jim Matheson is hold a strong lead over liberal activist Claudia Wright. Matheson 68-Wright 32
11:30 – Things are real close in the Republican senate primary. 30% reporting Lee 50.9 – Bridgewater 49.1
11:50 – Incumbent Democrat Matheson has been declared the winner in UT-02.
12:00 – With 50% reporting Lee holds on top his small edge Lee 51 – Bridgewater 49.
Mike Lee wins a narrow victory in Utah. He will likely be the next US senator from the state.
29 Comments
More Palin coming. jeez.
Being time zone challenged like I am, you might want to revise this…
thanks
De nada…! ;-)
Burr has only himself to blame. Had he chosen, you know, the Crazy-DeMint tack, he would be sitting pretty.
Well, we’ve got to take into consideration that North Carolina isn’t quite the lunatic asylum that South Carolina is…!
Hey Sarge how ya doing??
This seems appropriate to a horse race post.
Of geez, KO’s special comment recommends O keep McChrystal.
Go Elaine! She’s against the Afghanistan escalation, if you didn’t know. Great win for progressives there.
Just listened to Keith’s Special Comment… Talk about change of tactics on the General… Must see when it is up on youtube…
Responses to McC seem to contain a lot of uhs.
Rachel is also rationalizing McC. Whatta buncha crap.
but as KO said if he accepts his resignation and just put it in the drawer & tell him get back and make this work he would OWN McChrystal. We shall see..
As I had noted on Rayne’s thread…
Honestly, I think McChrystal should stay at the helm, as the old cliche goes; ‘Success has many Fathers, but, failure is an orphan’ He is the orphan…! This is his baby, he needs to be the face of the failed policy…!
Yup sarge….
Heading out to my daughter’s Birthday/Graduation party with all the salads and various paraphenalia…! ;-)
*sheesh* Wouldn’t ya know it that it just started raining…!
I bid ya’ll a fond adieu for the evening…! *g*
I am three-quarters with you on this. It is possible that keeping the General will not change the ‘doctrine’ one bit.
But the failed policy keeps getting our troops killed. McChrystal is incompetent. He must have kissed a lots of rings on the way up because his brilliance surely didn’t do it.
I’m of the opinion there really is not much you can do with Afghanistan regardless of strategy. It is the graveyard of empires for a reason.
Hope the rain doesn’t make a mess of your daughter’s Birthday/Graduation party. Please wish them the very best & happy B-Day… And a big congratulations to you Pops!!! Oh and Mom also..
I quite agree. I wish that McCrystal had not had all these surges and stuff. He should have told the troops to keep their heads down and wait for the exit plan. He just seems to enjoy this way too much for my taste. Obama, however, is the one to blame.
KO is a disgrace. It’s an embarrassment that he’s considered a liberal.
Uh-
That would be South Carolina, please don’t add us into the same paragraph. :)
I know, I know, we all look alike.
no those were two separate sentences polls closed in NC and we started to get the first results from SC at the same time.
This guy’s African American and he’s a REPUBLICAN? How crazy is he?
I suggest that Marshall not hold her breath for the DSCC money to come pouring in. Dumb shits.
PS, did you mean “establishment hack” or “establishment backed” above?
And could whoever calls Politico remind them to put Marshall’s win in the “f*cking r*tards” column as opposed to the “establishment Democrats” one?
Rep. Matheson was all over TV, highlighting his few good votes and issues for the low-information voters. Corporate cash can win elections for incumbents.
Claudia Wright ran a serious, honorable campaign. She was too polite to mention Matheson’s votes for USA PATRIOT, Iraq invasion, torture, warrantless surveillance, and suspending habeas corpus.
It’s even crazier. His Democratic opponent is African-American and one of the three questionable candidates from the SC Democratic primary. Regardless of who wins, and it likely to be Scott the Republican, the Charleston area of South Carolina will be represented in Congress by a conservative African-American. Sure will make the membership of the Congressional Black Caucus interesting.