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

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

Totally forgot about the primaries tonight (I was following them earlier at dinner but the returns were slow). Ernst really won big, which surprised me.

[RogueBeaver]

McDaniel should be speaking soon. Cochran's camp will have some announcements, no word yet whether Cochran himself will speak.

[Morning in Atlas]

Looking like Doug Ose will beat Birman in CA-7. Jury's still out on whether Dems advance in CA-25 and CA-31.

Preferably Gomez-Reyes beats Aguilar, but Gooch loses.

Ugh California...

Wait, it gets worse.

Two Republicans lead in the Comptroller's race.

[Never]

Never mind: McDaniel camp apparently reported them. 1823 McDaniel, 699 Cochran. The commish is a she, FWIW.

Can those be transferred over to AP/Politico/RCP or do we have to wait for the election commissioner to get up and report them to those organizations themselves?

If McDaniel's camp is telling the truth, the media should accept the results. The election commissioner can and should report the results, but they don't have to in order for the news to make it public.

[RogueBeaver]

AP has confirmed those results. Both camps now predicting a runoff.

[Citizen (The) Doctor]

Looking like Doug Ose will beat Birman in CA-7. Jury's still out on whether Dems advance in CA-25 and CA-31.

Preferably Gomez-Reyes beats Aguilar, but Gooch loses.

Ugh California...

Wait, it gets worse.

Two Republicans lead in the Comptroller's race.

Isn't Yee leading right now?

[Attorney General & PPT Dwarven Dragon]

96% now in MS, 49.5 to 49.0 with McDaniel ahead. 5 counties have partial results; Cochran is leading in 3 of them and McDaniel is leading in 2 of them. Nothing from Holmes, and so far Politico has not accepted the apparent Covingtong results.

[Never]

This seems to have gotten very close, probably a runoff.

@RogueBeaver, how soon do you think until we will know that a runoff is actually the case? Or have both campaigns already made this prediction public?

[Maxwell]

Zinke has pulled ahead of Stapleton. Zinke is probably the best chance the Democrats have, considering he may have broken campaign finance law.

[Never]

96% now in MS, 49.5 to 49.0 with McDaniel ahead. 5 counties have partial results; Cochran is leading in 3 of them and McDaniel is leading in 2 of them. Nothing from Holmes, and so far Politico has not accepted the apparent Covingtong results.

Holmes poll workers are saying that they will keep working all night if necessary to report the results.

[Attorney General & PPT Dwarven Dragon]

96% now in MS, 49.5 to 49.0 with McDaniel ahead. 5 counties have partial results; Cochran is leading in 3 of them and McDaniel is leading in 2 of them. Nothing from Holmes, and so far Politico has not accepted the apparent Covingtong results.

Holmes poll workers are saying that they will keep working all night if necessary to report the results.

What's taking them so long? Polls closed four and a half hours ago...

[cinyc]

Holmes poll workers are saying that they will keep working all night if necessary to report the results.

I doubt it will affect the results much.  There were only 553 votes there in the 2012 Republican Presidential Primaries.  Even if there are 1,000 votes this time, that's not enough for either person to avoid a runoff.

[ElectionsGuy]

Just from looking at the California house races so far, it looks like most of them will have a republican and a democrat in the general. Only a few uber D districts in the Bay area or LA area have two democrats leading. Interestingly, in CA-25 two republicans are leading in a potentially competitive seat. The same for the Controller statewide race. Can this be another CA-31 mistake on democrats part for republicans to escape a competitive partisan race?

Brad Zaun is looking to be the winner for IA-3 R primary.

The MT-AL house seat is still up in the air on the republican side (mainly between Zinke and Stapleton)

And on MS, it looks like, sadly, Cochran will McDaniel will fight it out for three more weeks.

I'm done for the night.

[Never]

This is counting Covington:
AOSHQDD has McDaniel ahead, they are declaring a runoff!!!!

[SPC]

Just from looking at the California house races so far, it looks like most of them will have a republican and a democrat in the general. Only a few uber D districts in the Bay area or LA area have two democrats leading. Interestingly, in CA-25 two republicans are leading in a potentially competitive seat. The same for the Controller statewide race. Can this be another CA-31 mistake on democrats part for republicans to escape a competitive partisan race?

Brad Zaun is looking to be the winner for IA-3 R primary.

The MT-AL house seat is still up in the air on the republican side (mainly between Zinke and Stapleton)

And on MS, it looks like, sadly, Cochran will McDaniel will fight it out for three more weeks.

I'm done for the night.

Looks like there's a chance that happens again in CA-31.

[Never]

With the checkmark beside McDaniel, AOSHQDD has him at 49.67% of the vote, and Cochran with 48.77%.

[Attorney General & PPT Dwarven Dragon]

Politico just reported the democratic votes from Covington. We'll see if they report the republican votes as well.

[Never]

In a recap from Iowa, Ernst basically swept all but two counties, and has held steady with 55-57% of the vote, massively overperforming the primary polls done in that state.

[Attorney General & PPT Dwarven Dragon]

Covington is in! McDaniel 1823, Cochran 698, Carey 43.

98% statewide, 49.6 to 48.8.

[7,052,770]

In the future, maybe the MS GOP won't certify jokes like Carey. Thanks to him, Mississippi taxpayers must fund another statewide election.

[Never]

It probably won't take to long for other outlets to predict a runoff in Mississippi. 

In the future, maybe the MS GOP won't certify jokes like Carey. Thanks to him, Mississippi taxpayers must fund another statewide election.

Good point.

[Attorney General & PPT Dwarven Dragon]

Nobody is calling anything yet, but it looks good for a runoff. Cochran is winning in Jefferson, Warren, and Hinds county. Cochran is ahead in Rankin county, but it's very close and 68% of the vote is already in. Holmes still out but shouldn't be much of an influence on anything. Everything else is in.

[GaussLaw]

Could Thad win the runoff?

[Never]

Rumor from has it that the last 4 precincts from Hinds won't come in until later in the morning.

The rest of the results from Hinds county are probably not enough to swing things, but then again, I didn't really expect this election in Mississippi to be as close as it ended up.

[Citizen (The) Doctor]

Nobody is calling anything yet, but it looks good for a runoff. Cochran is winning in Jefferson, Warren, and Hinds county. Cochran is ahead in Rankin county, but it's very close and 68% of the vote is already in. Holmes still out but shouldn't be much of an influence on anything. Everything else is in.

McDaniel is ahead according to Politico with 68 percent in from Rankin.