Alabama and New Jersey Results Open Thread

Polls close in Alabama and New Jersey at 8pm Eastern.  We’ll use this thread to follow the results in a number of hot congressional primaries.

  • Alabama: AL-02 (D & R), AL-05 (R)

    Results: Associated Press | AL.com

  • New Jersey: NJ-Sen (D), NJ-03 (R), NJ-05 (D), NJ-07 (R)













    83% of Precincts Reporting
    Lautenberg 168,890 62%
    Andrews 87,248 32%

    Results: Associated Press | NJ.com

    11:55PM (David): The AP says there will indeed be a run-off between Wayne Parker and Cheryl Guthrie. There must be plenty of teeth-gnashing at Parker headquarters – he took 49%, just a hair shy of avoiding the run-off outright. Guthrie, meawhile, is far back at 18%. But she’s been waging a very negative campaign lately, which hopefully will continue – and soften up the eventual winner even further for Dem Parker Griffith in the fall. The run-off is July 15th.

    10:48PM (David): AL-02 will go to a run-off between Love and Smith. In AL-05, Parker is hovering at 48% with 93% of the votes counted. If he can’t clear 50%, he’ll face Guthrie in a run-off.

    10:39PM: Chris Myers just won NJ-03 and Leonard Lance won NJ-07 according to the AP.

    10:22PM: The AP is calling NJ-05 for Dennis Shulman!

    10:11PM: The AP is calling NJ-Sen for Frank Lautenberg!

    9:43PM: The AP is calling AL-02 for Bobby Bright.

    9:33PM: Whoops — I can’t believe we forgot about NJ-05 (D). Rabbi Dennis Shulman is leading Camille Abate by 57-34 with 34% reporting.

    9:19PM: Some tidbits from Alabama — Bobby Bright is crushing in AL-02 so far, while Jay Love is the early leader on the GOP side. However, Love’s base is in Montgomery, so we should see Smith surge when the Wiregrass region is counted.

    9:10PM: Lautenberg is cruising so far. Jack Kelly, the weaker of the two NJ-03 GOP front runners, has a 45-30-25 lead over Justin Murphy and the stronger Chris Myers with 29% reporting. With 8% reporting in NJ-07, Leonard Lance has a 60-19 lead over Kate Whitman.  

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    4. NJ U.S. Senate – Dem Primary

      23 of 6290 Precincts Reporting – 0%

      Name Party Votes Vote %

      Lautenberg, Frank (i) Dem 1,539 62%

      Andrews, Robert Dem 664 27%

      Cresitello, Donald Dem 264 11%

       

    6. without a doubt Lance is the better candidate. As a person who lives in Jersey I think that Whiteman would be the easier candidate to beat as he has more experience and high name recognition.  

    7. Bobbie Bright in a landslide and no republican anywhere near 50%, requiring a run-off.  I really like our chances with Bright this year.

    8. Couldn’t you have waited until you were like, 57, to run for this seat? By then, Frank would have retired or possibly deceased.

    9. A look at the county-by-counties (here: http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/f… really tells how much of a North Jersey/South Jersey split there is here.

      Andrews is getting 80% in Gloucester County, but only 22% in Essex County.

      Also, Kelly is leading in NJ-03 because all of the precincts so far have been Ocean County. When Camden and Burlington come in, Myers should surge.

    10. to piss off so many people? A 25 point loss is huge for an incumbent Mayor of a big city.

      Mayor – Atlantic City – Dem Primary

      18 of 26 Precincts Reporting – 69%

      Name Party Votes Vote %

      Langford, Lorenzo Dem 1,762 59%

      Evans, Scott (i) Dem 1,018 34%

      Cappella, Dominic Dem 200 7%  

    13. Bads news is that Republican turnout was far higher. Perhaps it was more hotly contested. Either way, they will have a runoff.

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    16. In AL-02 there will definately be a run-off.  In AL-05 the top repub is at 48%.  This is great news considering our candidates both won in landslides tonight and repubs will have to keep campaigning against one another.

      1. Lance is very well liked and respected in the western part of the district.  This will not be a cake walk either way, but Lance would probably be tougher to beat.  Though, he is kind of a soft touch, and would not run a particularly nasty campaign.  Not his style.  

        Whitman would fund raise well, but she is not as well respected, and her mother’s legacy has not left a soft spot in the hearts of many Jerseyeans.  

      1. interim mayor; he’s been filling the position since last fall when actual mayor Bob Levy went literally AWOL for several weeks and then resigned. The 3rd place candidate, Dominic Cappella, was city business manager and declared himself acting mayor during that time, saying Levy told him to be in charge before disappearing, but city council disputed that. I don’t know anything about Langford; he doesn’t seem to have any connection to the imbroglio. Anyway, it all sounds par for the course for AC.

    18. Lance is the GOP nominee in NJ-07 and Kelly looks to be the nominee in NJ-03.  Sound like good news for us in NJ-03 and bad news in NJ-07.  I’m still confident we’ll win both though.

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