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

[Joe Republic]

This might be a stupid question, but could one hypothetically get on both parties primary ballots, for whatever bizarre reason?

Depends on the rules in each state.  The most recent example I can give you is Rep. Peter Welch (D-VT), who also won the Republican nomination in 2008 through write-ins.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

This might be a stupid question, but could one hypothetically get on both parties primary ballots, for whatever bizarre reason?

Yes, but you'd need to be an idiot to try that in South Carolina.  We don't allow write-in votes in primaries, so you'd need to file in both primaries paying double the usual filing fee.  Worse, under our sore loser law, if you lost either primary, you'd be blocked from running in November, even if you won the other party's nomination.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Anyway, while in theory, the automatic recount could change things, It looks like the SCGOP Lt. Gov runoff will be between Henry McMaster and Pat McKinney as I really doubt there are 250 votes that could be found to close the gap between Pat McKinney and Mike Campbell.

[Tender Branson]

June 24 results:

Colorado

FL-19

Maryland

Mississippi

New York

Oklahoma

South Carolina

Utah

[Tender Branson]

My predictions:

CO: 34% Beauprez, 31% Tancredo, 24% Gessler, 11% Kopp

MD-D: 52% Brown, 30% Gansler, 15% Mizeur, 3% Others
MD-R: 68% Hogan, 32% Others

[ElectionsGuy]

MS Senate Runoff Prediction:

McDaniel - 53%
Cochran - 47%

[Senator Spiral]

CO-Gov:

Tancredo - 35%
Beauprez - 33%
Gessler - 23%
Kopp - 9%

MS-Sen (Runoff):

McDaniel - 52%
Cochran - 48%

[King]

I didn't bother to comment on this but New Mexico really needs to start doing runoff elections.

King is that bad?

He's just an uninspiring Martha Coakley type with a ceiling of support. This is I think the fourth or fifth time he's run for Governor/Senator, each time he gets his base 35-40% to Udall/Richardson/Denish 60-65%. This time the field was split and his usual support was enough to win it.

He would not have won a runoff.

[NHLiberal]

I didn't bother to comment on this but New Mexico really needs to start doing runoff elections.

King is that bad?

He's just an uninspiring Martha Coakley type with a ceiling of support. This is I think the fourth or fifth time he's run for Governor/Senator, each time he gets his base 35-40% to Udall/Richardson/Denish 60-65%. This time the field was split and his usual support was enough to win it.

He would not have won a runoff.

King should seriously be running in NM-2. Pearce is a nightmare

On a side note, Gary King has never lost a Democratic primary before. He has never run for US Senate and this is his first go for Governor. The only election he has ever lost was for US House in 04.

[TX Conservative Dem]

Anyone got new exit polling in the Democratic primary for Maryland Governor 2014 ?

[Tender Branson]

Anyone got new exit polling in the Democratic primary for Maryland Governor 2014 ?

https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=193644.msg4191563#msg4191563

[Maxwell]

I didn't bother to comment on this but New Mexico really needs to start doing runoff elections.

King is that bad?

He's just an uninspiring Martha Coakley type with a ceiling of support. This is I think the fourth or fifth time he's run for Governor/Senator, each time he gets his base 35-40% to Udall/Richardson/Denish 60-65%. This time the field was split and his usual support was enough to win it.

He would not have won a runoff.

King should seriously be running in NM-2. Pearce is a nightmare

On a side note, Gary King has never lost a Democratic primary before. He has never run for US Senate and this is his first go for Governor. The only election he has ever lost was for US House in 04.

That's actually not true.

http://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=29608

[NHLiberal]

I didn't bother to comment on this but New Mexico really needs to start doing runoff elections.

King is that bad?

He's just an uninspiring Martha Coakley type with a ceiling of support. This is I think the fourth or fifth time he's run for Governor/Senator, each time he gets his base 35-40% to Udall/Richardson/Denish 60-65%. This time the field was split and his usual support was enough to win it.

He would not have won a runoff.

King should seriously be running in NM-2. Pearce is a nightmare

On a side note, Gary King has never lost a Democratic primary before. He has never run for US Senate and this is his first go for Governor. The only election he has ever lost was for US House in 04.

That's actually not true.

http://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=29608

Ah, ok, so I didn't go far back enough - he lost the 1998 Democratic primary for Governor. I just wanted to point out that King has never run for Senate and has never lost anything to Udall, Richardson, or Denish, so what King was saying didn't really make any sense...

[King]

No he has.  He rarely makes it past exploratory stages though.

He's tried for a long time to be elected to a major office and has failed. He already failed against Pearce, too.

Trust me, Gary King is a terrible candidate loved more by party officials than voters.

[Thomas D]

Just voted. No waiting at all.

[Maxwell]

Henry McMaster looks like he will be the South Carolina Lieutenant Governor, he currently leads Campbell 2-1.

[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.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

As expected, voting was light today and I noticed they didn't bother to set up as many machines as before.  My sister voted shortly after noon, and she was the first person to vote in the Democratic runoff in her precinct.  Considering her precinct was 134-6 Rep-Dem in the primary two weeks ago, that's not too surprising.  My own precinct wasn't quite as lopsided 419-26 or 6% Dem as opposed to 4% Dem.

Henry McMaster looks like he will be the South Carolina Lieutenant Governor, he currently leads Campbell 2-1.

Comparing the results for the two counties already in, Oconee and Edgefield, it's clear McMaster has won, as expected.

[Suburbia]

Michael Steele should have ran for governor in Maryland; he may have garnered more national interest in this election, but Brown is likely to be the next Maryland governor barring huge GOP turnout in Maryland in November.

[Miles]

MD Gov (D) called from Brown.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

I don't know why AP is being so slow on the GOP SC Supt. of Ed. runoff.  Spearman has a solid lead and has won some counties today that Atwater won in the primary.

[ElectionsGuy]

CO Governor still pretty close

Beauprez - 30%
Tancredo - 27%
Gessler - 24%
Kopp - 19%

[Miles]

Tancredo is conceding.

[Miles]

MD-AG: Frosh up 15 on Cardin with 20%.

[Never]

AOSHQDD calls CO-Gov for Beauprez.