Primary Roundup New York Times (blog)
So here’s where we are tonight:
The three top Senate primaries have all been called. In Indiana, former Senator Dan Coats won the Republican primary, despite a strong challenge from Marlin Stutzman, a favorite of conservative Republicans like Senator Jim DeMint of South Carolina and Mike Huckabee.
The guns have already been drawn in this Senate contest for November. Democrats are intent on painting Mr. Coats as a Washington insider/lobbyist whose ties to the Hoosier state have long been broken. And Republicans are already aiming at the record of Representative Brad Ellsworth, the presumptive Democratic Senate nominee, aligning him with liberal positions on health care and President Obama’s agenda.
In Ohio, the contest was on the Democratic side, and to some extent, this race had been kind of sleepy between Lt. Gov. Lee Fisher and Jennifer Brunner, the secretary of state. Mr. Fisher won the race, but there’s a long, hard duel ahead for the seat to replace Senator George Voinovich, the Republican who’s retiring.
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