If you didn't know there were primary elections tonight, well...I'm not sure what to say to you, other than this diary is not for you.
Lots of contested primaries, fun races to watch (if you're anything like me). As usual, the results link list:
Alabama
New Jersey, Republican
New Jersey, Democratic
CA-50, Runoff
Iowa
New Mexico
California, Other
Mississippi, courtesy of jorndorff
Montana, also courtesy of jorndorff
South Dakota
Polls close at 8pm Eastern/5pm Pacific in Alabama, New Jersey, and Mississippi.
9pm/6pm: New Mexico and South Dakota
10pm/7pm: Iowa and Montana
11pm/8pm: California.
More good stuff on the flip:
Alabama has a few interesting races, 2 for Governor - one on each side, and the Dem side race for Attorney General.
Dems, Gov: Lt Gov Lucy Baxley takes on former Gov. Don Siegelman, who wants his old job back. How inconvinient he's in the middle of a federal corruption trial; Baxley should win, but you never know...
Rep, Gov: 10 Commandments judge Roy Moore challenges incumbent Bob Riley. Riley will almost definitely win, he's still a wingnut, but he did raise taxes to balance the budget, showing maybe at least some fiscal sense.
Dems, AG: Racist Holocaust-denier Larry Darby takes on Mobile County DA John Tyson. Tyson had better win.
Mississippi has 1 interesting race, MS-02 on the Dem side. Bennie Thompson represents this African-American heavy district, the only one in MS. St Sen Chuck Espy (and nephew of Clinton SecAg Mike Espy) challenges him; I expect Thompson to win.
New Jersey has 2 interesting races, maybe. For Senate, Tom Kean Jr is expected to win for the Rs, but how well he does against a virtual unknown could signal how he will fare against incumbent Bob Menendez in the fall.
Speaking of Menendez...his seat, NJ-13, is up, but both guys are Dems. I don't know much about it, but both State Assembly Speaker Albio Sires and Perth Amboy mayor Joseph Vas seem like your typical NJ Dems. Kean and Menendez both just declared winners.
California has a bunch of competitive state races that Kos has talked about extensively, and living 3000 miles away, I couldn't possibly do them justice explaining it here. But there's Governor, Lt. Gov, and Attorney General, among others.
Also of interest here is the runoff between Busby and Bilbray(which you need to have been hiding under a rock not to know about) in CA-50. There's also CA-11, with the contest between Incumbent Richard Pombo, who was apparently traumatized by the environment as a child and is now intent on destroying it, and former US Rep Pete McCloskey. Also of (maybe) note is Marcy Winograd's challenge from the left to Rep Jane Harman in CA-36.
Iowa has an interesting Governor's race and crowded races on both sides for the seat of US Rep Jim Nussle(IA-01), who is running for Governor.
Governor's side for the Dems includes current Iowa SecState Chet Culver(son of a US Sen), current gov Tom Vilsack's favorite and former Clinton admin official Mike Blouin, and Ed Fallon. (The Rs have pretty much settled on Nussle.)
IA-01 is extremely crowded on both sides, with several candidates. I actually don't know much about this either, but the favorites seem to be trial lawyer Bruce Braley for the Dems and St. Rep Bill Dix or former Iowa GOP chair Bryan Kennedy.
Montana has Morrison v Tester. Chances are since you're here reading DKos, you're supporting Tester. As am I.
New Mexico doesn't have that many interesting races...Bill Richardson will cruise to a 2nd term for Governor, and both Att Gen Patsy Madrid and US Rep Heather Wilson are unopposed in the primaries in NM-01.
There's a 3-man field for the Reps to challenge Incumbent Senator Jeff Bingaman, who will win re-election anyway.
South Dakota, finally, has two Dems challenging Incumbent Gov. Mike Rounds, who recently signed the extremist abortion ban (and whose approval rating is bombing because of said signing.) One is a former State Rep, Jack Billion, and the other is Farmer union leader Bill Wiese.
Update:
Hey everybody: thanks for pushing this onto the rec'd list; I'll start putting up results in the table format(see the Nebraska/West Virginia thread from a few weeks ago), after I fix a few kinks in the program.