Voters cast ballots Tuesday in primary elections in Florida, Arizona and Vermont. Highlights: ___ TOP OF THE TICKET Democrats in Florida went with a former Republican as their nominee for governor. Well-funded Republican-turned-Democrat Charlie Crist was favored in his race against former state Sen. Nan Rich. Crist, who was Florida’s governor from 2007 until 2011, […] Read More → 
Five things to know about Thursday’s primary elections and other ballot issues in Tennessee: ___ 1. RACES TO WATCH The U.S. Senate primary has brought some of the sharpest duels. Tea party-backed candidate Joe Carr is seeking to upset Republican Sen. Lamar Alexander, who appears to have a clear edge but certainly cannot ignore the […] Read More → 
Highlights from Tuesday’s primary elections in Missouri, Kansas, Michigan and Washington. ___ TOP OF THE TICKET The Republican primary in Kansas topped election headlines Tuesday, as Republican Sen. Pat Roberts sought his party’s nomination against radiologist Milton Wolf. Roberts held a double-digit lead in early returns. Roberts, seeking a fourth term in the Senate, questioned […] Read More → 
Battling for political survival, six-term Sen. Thad Cochran led tea party favorite Chris McDaniel Tuesday night in a bruising, costly Mississippi primary runoff that exposed deep divisions within the Republican Party. With 92 percent of precincts reporting, Cochran led with 51 percent to McDaniel’s 49 percent. The veteran lawmaker and his allies had highlighted his […] Read More → 
A tea party officer and two others representing the challenger in a Senate primary became trapped in a courthouse in the middle of the night, hours after officials had gone home from counting votes, authorities said. Janis Lane, Scott Brewster and Rob Chambers were locked inside the Hinds County Courthouse more than an hour after […] Read More → 
New laws requiring voters to present photo identification at the polls were enforced in two Southern primaries on Tuesday, but with mixed results. In Alabama, there were few hitches, but a razor-tight U.S. Senate race in Mississippi could hinge on provisional ballots, some of them cast as a result of a new voter ID law. […] Read More → 
Michael Schaus Organizing for America (or ACORN) must have some boots on the ground in Crimea, Ukraine. In the typical fashion of third world banana republics, Soviet style dictatorships, and liberal American cities, Crimea voted yesterday to join the Russian Federation with stunning voter-turnout. How stunning? Well, in Sevastopol, the turnout was roughly 123 percent […] Read More →