Chris Matthews lays into NY governor candidate Rick Lazio over his lurid TV ad attacking the ‘Cordoba House’/mosque project. Watch it.

Is Kendrick Meek’s primary win in Florida bad news for Charlie Crist?

Latest poll of the Louisiana Senate race: David Vitter 51%, Charlie Melancon 41%.

Former Vice President Dan Quayle’s son Ben pulled it out and won the Republican nomination for the AZ-03 House seat, despite that whole nightclub reviews sordidness.

Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski is trailing her Republican primary opponent Joe Miller 51.5% to 48.6% with 84% of precincts reporting. The raw vote spread is a bit less than 3,000 votes.

Reports out of Alaska indicate that the final result may not be known until next month, as absentee ballots trickle in.

Miller’s viability, such as it was, seemed to come from a single source: the endorsement of former Gov. Sarah Palin. But as late as yesterday, Republican and Democratic observers expected Murkowski to trounce Miller.

John McCain cruises to victory over J.D. Hayworth in Arizona’s Republican Senate primary.

Alas, it’s looking like Allen Boyd is going to hold on and beat Al Lawson in the FL-2 Dem primary. But, man, it was awfully close. More big news is what now appears to be the almost certain win of Rick Scott over longtime Republican officeholder Bill McCollum. Unconfirmed reports have McCollum preparing a concession.

Late Update: Or not. McCollumites now saying their go won’t be conceding. And AP calls it for Boyd.

Later Update: McCollum’s campaign is saying there’s no clear winner and we’ll have to wait for the morning — which may be a coded way of saying he’s coming out for marijuana legalization, or perhaps just that all the folks in his campaign are smoking some right now.

Even Later Update: AP says put away the bong guys, calls it for Rick Scott.

Remember Allen Boyd, the big and really the only big pro-Social Security phase-out Dem from back in 2005? Looks like he may have some trouble on his hands tonight. With 73% of the vote in in the Dem primary in FL-2, it’s Boyd 51%, Al Lawson 49%.

Late Update: Now it’s at 78% with the same margin. The remaining precincts outstanding don’t give a clear read on what remains.

Latter Update: Now 80%, same margin.

Holding out Hope Update: Sigh, 84% in and it moves to Boyd by 4.

Not Looking Good Update: 90% and Boyd’s 4 point margin is looking pretty solid.

The latest numbers show it pretty much neck and neck on the GOP side in the Florida Gov primary. And our Eric Kleefeld notes that most of votes from his old district in Orange County are already in. So he could be in for a long night. At the moment it’s a 3 point margin for Rick Scott with about half the vote in. So definitely still very much up in the air.

The biggest chunk of outstanding votes are in the big urban areas in the South of the state — Broward, Palm Beach, Miami-Dade, etc. Those are normally the Democratic strongholds in statewide races. But of course this is the Republican primary. So not immediately clear to me who that favors.

Late Update: Now at 9:09 PM we’re 53% of the vote in and Scott has a 4 point margin.

The AP is projecting Rep. Kendrick Meek will be the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in Florida, defeating billionaire Jeff Greene.

That sets up the three-way Meek, Charlie Crist, Marco Rubio general election. Here’s the TPM Poll Average on that no-longer-hypothetical matchup: Read More