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

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Besides the GOP primary for governor, there is another interesting thing to watch. In the 13th district former Miss America Erika Harold is taking on the republican incumbent. Anyone know her chances there?

She's raised f**k-all and hasn't come close in any poll I've seen.

The Democratic primary for IL-13 is much more interesting and close, but I'd give Ann Callis the edge.

There's also a competitive GOP primary in IL-11 as several candidates compete to see who gets to get slaughtered by Bill Foster come November.

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Supposedly a bit of D crossover votes for Dillard. I'm guessing that they think Quinn is going to lose anyway, so why not get the most liberal Republican?

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8% in

Truax is leading Oberweis in the Senate primary. 52-48

Rauner - 47
Dillard - 36
Brady - 12
Rutherford - 5

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Tom Cross is leading Bob Grogan in the Republican Treasurer primary, 56-44

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15%

Quinn - 79
Hardiman - 21

Rauner - 49
Dillard - 35
Brady - 12
Rutherford - 5

Cross - 58
Grogan - 42

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In the HD-39 Dem primary, State Rep. Toni Berrios is loosing to challenger Will Guzzardi 45 to 55 with 23% in.



For those that don't know, the race is being chacterized as a referendum on Rahm Emmanuel. Berrios is a big supporter of Rahm's education policies, specifically school vouchers. Guzzardi is running as an anti-machine, pro-teacher candidate.

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GOV:
38% in

Rauner - 45%
Dillard - 35%
Brady - 13%
Rutherford - 6%


Treasurer:
38% in

Cross - 59%
Grogan - 41%



HD-39
65% in

Will Guzzardi - 60%
Toni Berrios - 40%

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Another Democratic State Rep. facing a challenge from his left partially over education, Christian Mitchell of HD-26, is leading 53-47 over progressive activist Jay Travis.



In HD-81, Ron Sandack (R-Incumbent), who voted in favor of gay marriage in 2013, is losing to social conservative Keith Matune 47-53.

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HD-39, 67% of precincts reporting

Guzzardi - 60%
Berrios (I) - 40%


Barrios is reportedly preparing to concede.

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Sandack is still loosing in HD-81, 48-52, with 10% of the vote in. It's not just the early votes now.

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47% in for HD-81, Sandack is behind by 13 votes, a 50-50 split percentage-wise.

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Barring something unexpected, Dillard is likely to lose by 3.5% based on current projections.



Also, AP has called HD-39 for Guzzardi. The Chicago Machine is expansive and powerful, but it does have it's losses every now and again.

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HD-81
Keith R. Matune   50.6%
Ron Sandack       49.4%
84% Reporting

The Tea Party may have their next confirmed kill in the extinction of the moderates.

It's a shame that it gives Moderate R's one more reason not to support gay marriage. Although I think we're done with the major legislative battles for that issue for the time being.

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The primary has been called for Bruce Rauner. 40-37-15-7

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The only Ohio primary that's somewhat notable is that David Joyce held off Tea Party candidate Matt Lynch in the OH-14 Republican Primary. Lynch probably would have had more difficulty in the general election than Joyce, who has one of the most moderate voting records of any Republican in Congress, and fits the views of his district well.

That was actually a pretty weak showing by Joyce considering his opponent.

Him and Rodney Davis both had weak showing mainly because it was their first primary election since taking office, and are basically incumbents in name only unless/until they win in November.

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I'm surprised the NE-GOP didn't throw Ricketts under a bus after his landslide defeat in 2006.

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Wow, Ace of Spades is already projecting Patrick for LG.

I'm glad the far-right ass I sympathize with beat the far-right ass who I dislike on a personal level.

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I thought Carter was supposed to be a rising star? Did she lose for any real reason or was it just because she looks like a Democrat?

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The second Republican is narrowly in second place for CA Controller now. Democratic turnout was poor, and that's very bad with the stupid top two system. It really needs to be repealed.

Current numbers.

John A. Pérez
(Party Preference: DEM)
665,109   
21.6%
Betty T. Yee
(Party Preference: DEM)
660,103   
21.4%
David Evans
(Party Preference: REP)
666,252   
21.6%

How many ballots are left to count?

About a million.

http://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/statewide-elections/2014-primary/unprocessed-ballots-report.pdf

Hopefully since LA (Perez territory) makes up the largest portion of uncounted ballots, they will come in strong for him. Or is that wishful thinking?

The late votes have always been consistently D-leaning. They drive up D numbers more often than they drive up R numbers.