Tonight we're liveblogging the Wisconsin recall elections as well as primaries in six states: California, Iowa, Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico and South Dakota. Click here for our guide to all the key primaries, and stick with us as we cover all of tonight's interesting races. Results: Calif. | Iowa | Montana | New Jersey | New Mexico | S. Dakota | Wisconsin
8:26 PM PT (Steve Singiser): California is starting to post some absentees and early numbers outside of Los Angeles County. The biggest surprise, among absentees, is that Eric Swalwell is up a couple of points on Pete Stark. Twitter, however, is reporting Stark is up 45-35. In other races, Jared Huffman is lapping the field early in CA-02, with a 25+ point lead over everyone else. Also, in a must-watch race in November, Dan Lungren has an early 52-42 lead over Ami Bera. Obviously, however, this is not a presidential election turnout, so direct translations may be of little value.
8:38 PM PT (David Jarman): The main event in California is probably the Senate race, where there are approximately eleventy-million candidates running in the Golden State's brand-new Top 2 primary. The AP has already called slot #1 for Dianne Feinstein, who's getting 51% so far. No call on slot #2, but it's looking like it won't be Orly Taitz, in a four-way tie for fourth place at 3%. Instead, it'll probably be Elizabeth Emken, who's the preferred candidate of the state GOP establishment, who's second at 12%, followed by fellow GOPer Dan Hughes at 6. No Dem running to the left of Feinstein is peaking above 2%.
8:39 PM PT (David Jarman): Here's an exciting race, though, in CA-52. Dems Lori Saldana and Scott Peters are neck-and-neck for the #2 slot (the #1 slot goes to Republican incumbent Brian Bilbray). It's Bilbray at 42, and Peters and Saldana each at 22 in this newly Dem-leaning San Diego seat; that's with 13% reporting.
8:42 PM PT (David Jarman): In CA-02's primary, as expected, Dem Jared Huffman is in first place, at 41. Random GOPer Dan Roberts is in 2nd though at 15, followed closely by Dem Normon Solomon, who seemed the likeliest 2nd place finisher (in this dark-blue district) at 12 and Dem Stacey Lawson at 9.
8:46 PM PT (David Jarman): A couple districts where the top 2 is pretty much already set, but there are questions about whether or not it'll be competitive in November. Dems are doing pretty well in both of them so far: John Garamendi's at 58% in CA-03 (to 19 for probable GOP opponent Kim Vann), and Jerry McNerney's at 54% in CA-09 (to 30 for likely GOP opponent Ricky Gill).
8:48 PM PT (David Jarman): One of the big races in California is the San Diego mayoral race. It looks like Democratic Rep. Bob Filner, retiring from the U.S. House after several decades, will advance to the top 2, along with Republican city councilor Carl DeMaio; they're at 33 (for DeMaio) and 28 (for Filner), with 23 for Nathan Fletcher, the one-time-Republican rising star turned moderate independent. That's a relief, where we won't be faced with a R-on-R general election in the state's second largest city.
8:49 PM PT: IA-01 Dem Rep. Bruce Braley now knows his November opponent: It'll be a redux of 2010, as Ben Lange narrowly beat Rod Blum, 53-47.
8:51 PM PT: And next door in IA-02 (R), John Archer handily defeats Dan Dolan. Archer will face Dem Rep. Dave Loebsack in the fall.
8:51 PM PT (David Jarman): In the other place where we've been sweating the possibility of a Real R vs. Fake I/Stealth R battle in November... in the Dem-leaning CA-26... it looks like we may be able to avert that possibility too. It's Republican state Sen. Tony Strickland at 45 (as expected), Dem state Asm. Julia Brownley at 26, and indie Ventura Co. Commissioner Linda "Rocky Road" Parks at 19, with none of the other Dems breaking out of the single digits. That's with 37% reporting.
9:01 PM PT: The count in NM-01 D has been mega-slow. We're now finally up to 40% reporting, though the needle hasn't budged. Michelle Lujan Grisham is at 41, Eric Griego 36, and Marty Chavez 23.
9:01 PM PT (jeffmd): In the Central Valley, GOPer David Valadao has a strong 57% against two Dems in CA-21. Incumbent Dem Jim Costa could have ran here and given Team Blue a better shot, but he instead fled north to CA-16...where he's getting an underwhelming 43% (though another Dem is pulling 11%).
9:07 PM PT (jeffmd): Racine County's dumped its 3rd batch of votes, setting Dem John Lehman 2.27% ahead of his 2010 pace. He needs 2.55%. Nothing reporting yet from the City of Racine, a normally Democratic but low-turnout stronghold.
9:10 PM PT (Steve Singiser): A quick update on the two major ballot propositions in California: the Term Limit proposition (allowing for 12 years to be spent in a given chamber) is passing in a laugher: 66-34. The cigarette tax (Proposition 29), which was targeted by over $40 million of tobacco lobby cash for negative ads, is leading, but barely (51-49).
9:14 PM PT: Get some more liveblog on here.
9:26 PM PT (Steve Singiser): AP confirms the somewhat obvious in the Shberman Showdown in CA-30'it will be Sherman v. Berman, part deux, in November. Sherman currently leads round one by a 39-34 margin.
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