Primary Results

The races that are of interest to me, and were at all competitive in Maryland are:

• Democratic primary for Congress in MD-4, where Donna Edwards, who took down the corrupt PG county machine politician Al Wynn last time is facing a challenge from the PG county machine:
• Results: Edwards sails to victory.
  
  
• Democratic primary for Baltimore County Executive, where I favor Joe Bartenfelder over Kevin Kamanetz, whose mission in life is to put cameras in every parking lot on the county.
• Results: Kamanetz wins, damn.
  
  
• Republican Primary for Governor: I dislike former Maryland Governor Bob "Bad Hair" Ehrlich, and his opponent, Brian Murphy, won't win, but it will be interesting to see just how much the fact that Sarah Palin endorsed him gets him votes:
• Results: Bobby didn't even break a sweat. Palin does not carry much weight here.
  
  
• I will note that Andrew duck won in the6^th Congressional district, so he will face Roscoe Bartlett for the 2^nd time in 4 years. He ran a creditable race in a very tough district in 2006. I met him, and he's a good guy, albeit he is a bit to the right of me. Also note that he is on Matthew Saroff's Act Blue Page.

Outside of the Free State, we have some interesting elections as well, mostly on the Republican side, looking at how well the teabaggers do:

• The biggest election is probably the primary in Delaware, where Christine O'Donnell, a teabagger who is so outrageous that Dick Armey's Freedomworks Teabagger AstroTurf org endorsed moderate Republican Mike Castle.
• Results: The teabagger nutjob won by what looks to be about 6%.
  
  
• In the New York Primaries, we have the always happless perennial loser Republican mainstay Rick Lazio running against the batsh%$ insane (he wants to put the unemployed in jail) Carl Paladino.
• Results: Paladino wins, and Lazio once again proves himself to be the Washington Generals of politics, and Andrew Cuomo is going to be the next governor unless he is found with a dead girl in his bed.
  
  
• And we have the Democratic Party primary in the 15^th district, where the scandal plagued Charles Rangel is being challenged by the grandson of the man he beat to become a Representative, Adam Clayton Powell IV.
• Results: Rangel wins, though he got barely 50% of the vote against his 5 opponents.
  
  
• We have the New Hampshire primary, where in the Republican Senate primary, you have Ovide Lamontagne, who was endorsed by the Manchester Union Leader and is considered more teabaggy versus Kelly Ayotte, who was endorsed by the Palin bot and is considered more mainstream (Yeah, NH is weird).
• Results: It appears that Ayotte has won, by something like 900 votes out of the over 100,000 cast.
  
  
• Also in New Hampshire, we have the primary in the 2^nd CD, where Blue Dog wannabee Katrina Swett is running against Act Blue fave from the Democratic wing of the Democratic Party, Ann Kuster
• Results: Kusters wins in a walk, which is a surprise, because Katrina Swett is political royalty in New Hampshire, being the daughter of Tom Lantos and the wife of former Congressman Dick Swett.
  
  
• The Washington DC Mayor's race, where the polls have the incumbent, Adrian Fenty behind Vincent Gray, largely because he is a complete jerk, he is generally considered to have done a good job, and because he has completely alienated the African American middle class in the city, largely because of his support of School Chancellor Michelle Rhee's policies, which are perceived as having engaged in, "a well-calculated strategy to weed out African Americans from positions in the public school management and classrooms," in order to pander to the influx of rich white families in the district.
• Results: Gray wins, and which probably means that Rhee is gone as well, if just because she was , "she abandoned the role of a politically impartial school administrator," by actively campaigning for Fenty.

I'll post the updates tomorrow,