Tonight, we're liveblogging primary election results in Indiana North Carolina, West Virginia, and Wisconsin. For our handy guide to all of the key races, click here. Results: Indiana | North Carolina | West Virginia | Wisconsin
4:08 PM PT (James L): With 9% in statewide (and all polls in Indiana now closed), Mourdock holds a 61-39 lead on Lugar.
4:10 PM PT (James L): A quick note about IN-02 (D): The AP currently has frontrunner Brendan Mullen losing to Dan "Some Dude" Morrison, but please note that this is just a handful of precincts. More importantly, the results from St. Joseph County, which the AP has not yet reported, are a lot better for Mullen.
4:16 PM PT (Kaili Joy Gray): We interrupt this regularly scheduled liveblog to announce the AP has called Indiana for Mitt Romney. You may now go back to not caring'along with the rest of the country.
4:19 PM PT (James L): Ex-Rep. Dave McIntosh now leads the IN-05 (R) primary by 39-29 over Marion Mayor Wayne Seybold with 3% reporting. And, heh, attorney John Lugar (no relation) is clocking in at a distant fifth with 3% of the vote. Bad night to have that name, dude!
4:22 PM PT (James L): In case you were worried, the AP now has Brendan Mullen ahead by 58-42 in IN-02 (D), and Scott Reske up by 74-26 in IN-05 (D).
4:25 PM PT (James L): Well, I guess that's all she wrote for Dick Lugar. Media outlets are busy calling his time of death:
BREAKING: Richard Mourdock wins Indiana Senate primary, defeating veteran incumbent Richard Lugar -@NBCNews #INsen' @ethanklapper via TweetDeck
4:26 PM PT: NBC is calling the IN-Sen GOP primary for Richard Mourdock. Try to act surprised.
4:28 PM PT: In the IN-05 GOP primary, Marion mayor Wayne Seybold has legged out to a 41-29 lead over ex-Rep. David McIntosh, but note that the majority of precincts reporting so far are from Grant County, where the town of Marion is based. (Don't get mixed up with Marion County, which is where the city of Indianapolis is based.) Most of Grant has reported, though, and there are a lot of precincts left to come.
4:33 PM PT: I just got an email in my inbox from the DSCC comparing Richard Mourdock to Ken Buck, who upset the kinda-establishment-favored Jane Norton in the 2010 Colorado GOP primary and may have helped Dem Sen. Michael Bennet hold on to his seat. But both Buck and Norton were very flawed and it was hard to choose between the two of them. More to the point, why not compare Mourdock to someone better known, like Sharron Angle or Christine O'Donnell?
4:33 PM PT: Polls have now closed in North Carolina.
4:37 PM PT: In IN-09 (D), Shelli Yoder leader Robert Winningham 41-30 with 16% reporting. IN IN-08 (R), Larry Buchson seems to have fended off Kristi Risk, 60-40 with 39% reporting. In IN-08 (D), Dave Crooks (the establishment choice) seems to have a safe lead with 63% of the vote and 37% reporting.
4:40 PM PT: In IN-06 (R), Luke Messer has a sizable 42-25 lead over Travis Hankins with 44% reporting.
4:38 PM PT: In IN-05 (R), David McIntosh has retaken the lead over Wayne Seybold, 35-31 with 17% reporting. Susan Brooks is back at 22%. As I suspected, Seybold's brief early lead was due to votes coming in from his home county, and most of those have now been counted.
4:41 PM PT: In IN-05 (D), establishment pick Scott Reske is up 69-31 over Tony Long with 17% reporting. And the establishment choice in IN-02 (D), Brendan Mullen, is up 56-44 over Dan Morrison with 26% reporting.
4:44 PM PT: In (mostly early) voting in North Carolina, Amendment 1 (which would ban same-sex marriages and civil unions) is passing by about 10 points.
4:51 PM PT (Kaili Joy Gray): There's more liveblogging here.
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