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

[Adam Griffin]

I think Carr had a strong performance, considering he was outspent 5-1 and wasn't really thought of as a high quality candidate.

Good showing by Carr, I thought Alexander would do much better.

Yep, I was expecting something like 57-32. The fact that Carr broke 40 is astonishing, as well as his performance in Alexander's home turf in SE TN.

[Adam Griffin]

Once again Tennessee Dems have nominated the "wrong" candidate in a low information primary. Charles Brown did no campaigning, his Facebook page contains no information and misspells his first name.

There's ample evidence from just this cycle - let alone others - to prove that the TN Dem electorate is unarguably the stupidest electorate in the nation, even when compared to Dem parties in other states with just as much and more disorganization. I can't think of a time in the past 6 years when they haven't picked the wrong candidate.

Chrles V. "Charlie" Brown for Governor, with all 42 of his likes (the same percentage of the vote that he got)

[Adam Griffin]

It seems there are also a couple thousand absentee ballots left to count, so the Schatz-win is not so sure yet (but still very likely).

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http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/story/26235519/2014-primary-gov-abercrombie-ige-senate-results

Though looking at the turnout figures, it appears close to one-third of all registered voters came out and voted in the Democratic primary. With ~8,000 registered voters in these two precincts, we would have expected under normal conditions for there to be around 2,700 votes cast here.

On one hand, turnout here - even with the delay - could be down substantially due to the storm. On the other hand, it could go up due to both candidates making a final push. Something tells me the bulk of each will cancel the other out, giving us somewhere between 2,000-3,000 more votes at the end of it all.

AoSHQDD called it for Schatz and it makes sense. Hanabusa would need to get something like 70-95% of likely outstanding votes to pull off an upset.