Today's Election Night Scorecard

[brooklynite]

Vermont (closes 7 PM EDT)
* Will Independent/socialist Congressman Bernie Sanders, easily expected to win Senator Jim Jeffords seat in November, also win the Dem nomination?

DC (closes 8 PM EDT)
* Which of seven Democratic candidates - including Council Predsident Linda Cropp, Council members Vincent Orange and Adrian Fenty, and Business leaders Michael Brown and Marie Johns - will succeed retiring Mayor Williams?

New York (closes 9 PM EDT)
* How embarrasingly large will Attorney General Eliot Spitzer's win be over nassau County Exec Tom Suozzi?
* How many protest votes will anti-war activist John Tasini get vs Senator Hillary Clinton?
* (CD 11) Which candidate in a four-way tie will win the primary to succeed retiring Congressman Major Owens - son Chris Owens, State Senator Carl Andrews, Councilman David Yassky or Councilwoman Yvette Clarke?
* (CD 19) Who will Democrats pick to run against Congresswoman Sue Kelly - Attorney Judy Aydelott or Orleans bandmember John Hall?

Rhode Island (closes 9 PM EDT)
* Will Club for Growth candidate Steve Laffley defeat Senator Lincoln Chaffee, risking a Democratic pickup?

Minnesota (closes 9 PM EDT)
* (CD 5) Who will Dems pick as a replacement for retiring Congresman Martin Sabo - Muslim State Rep Keith Ellison, former State Sen Ember Reichgott Junge or former Sabo Chief of Staff Mike Erlandson?

Arizona (closes 10 PM EDT)
* (CD 8) In a Republican seat labeled as a "tossup", how will social conservative Randy Graff do against NRCC selected candidate Steve Huffman?

Maryland (closes 9 PM EDT)
* Will Dems pick Congressman Ben Cardin or former NAACP President Kweisi Mfume to run against Rep Lt Gov Steele for the seat of retiring Senator Paul Sarbanes?
* Will former Governor and current State Controller William Donald Schaefer be put out to pasture?
* (CD 4) Will progressive challenger Donna Edwards, armed with the Washington Post endorsement, knock out Dem Congressman Al Wynn?

Wisconsin (closes 9 PM EDT)
* Will Attorney General Peg Lautenschlager get renominated after pleading guilty to DUI charges last year?

Other primaries: Delaware, New Hampshire

[redqueen]

1. Goooooooo Laffley !

:bounce:

[Sydnie]

2. Kick

Keeping this alive for later tonight!

[KyndCulture]

3. Real interested to see what NYer do...

with the Tasini votes.


I'd like to add, the Gov. race in Minnesota - how many liberal votes will Becky Lourey get against the more convervative endorsed DFLer Mike Hatch.

[jwirr]

6. She got mine and my daughters this morning.

[Freddie Stubbs]

7. Her win will be larger than Spitzer's "embarrasingly large" win

[KyndCulture]

8. It would be another Jesse Ventura moment for MN.

Agreed it would be big if she pulls this off.

[goodhue]

10. I voted for Becky

But I'll be surprised if she breaks 25%. She has a bright future as a statewide candidate. Maybe the DFL will get it right in four years. Alas I don't see Hatch beating T-Paw this November.

I'm on pins and needles waiting for Minneapolis progressives to deliver for Keith Ellison, who has always stood up for us. Erlandson and Reichgott Junge, not so much. More here on why Keith must win . . .

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=160x20768

[AX10]

4. Is Bernie Sanders on the Democratic ticket too?

[brooklynite]

5. According to Politics 1...

this is a crafty strategy to block the Dem line (Sanders declines the nominatation and the Dems don't replace him), to get Bernie as many votes as possible in November.

[cascadiance]

12. If Vermont has rules like California Bernie would have to "register"

... as a Democrat or a write-in in order to get votes counted.

Just writing in someone else's name in California doesn't count unless that person is a "registered" write-in candidate. Don't know if Vermont's like that too, but if it is, even if Bernie gets a majority of votes, they wouldn't be counted if he hadn't registered as a write-in, if they have rules like California.

[brooklynite]

13. Here's how they explain it...

Self-proclaimed socialist Congressman Bernie Sanders (Independent) is a near lock to win the Green Mountain State's open US Senate seat in November. On Tuesday he is expected to win the Democratic nomination -- something he doesn't want -- over four Democrats who actually want to be the Dem nominee. The State Democratic Party and the DSCC are both backing Sanders, who promised to caucus with the Senate Democrats if he wins. To help Sanders in November, they convinced him to run in the primary, just so he can renounce the nomination after winning it. That means there will be no Democrat on the ballot against him in the general election.

http://politics1.com/

[DeepModem Mom]

9. Thank you!

[EFerrari]

11. Really! Thank you! What a great summary.

:kick:

[goodhue]

14. kick for results