The three big races tonight are:
IN-Sen: Longtime incumbent Dick Lugar trying to win his party’s nomination in the GOP primary against Richard Mourdock.
WI-Gov: Democrats battling it out to face Gov. Scott Walker in a recall election.
NC-Gay Marriage: North Carolina voters deciding whether to enshrine only marriage between a man and a woman in the state constitution (a yes vote is anti-gay marriage).
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We’re tracking live results out of the Indiana Senate primary right here and as of 7:12 PM on the East Coast it’s not looking good for Dick Lugar. Definitely very earlier — 12% precincts reporting. But Mourdock is up by over 20 points.
If you’re in state, send us a note and let us know how things looked and felt on the ground today in Indiana.
Indiana now officially in play for Senate Democrats — but by no means a gimme.
Follow the live results of the vote on North Carolina’s anti-gay marriage constitutional amendment here.
It looks like North Carolina Amendment One will pass handily in North Carolina.
Much of metropolitan Wake County is already in, with other urban centers in Durham and Mecklenburg counties to come, but the margins at this point seem pretty insurmountable.
Live results here.
Big setback for the gay rights movement in North Carolina, where Amendment 1 is now projected to pass, and probably by a landslide.
Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett wins Wisconsin’s Democratic recall primary. He’ll face Scott Walker (again) next month, June 5th.
TPM Reader BI checks in from on the ground in Indiana …
Maybe surprisingly, there wasn’t a lot of drama around this race on either side. Lugar’s campaign seemed to just be going through the motions. Maybe partly because they haven’t had to run a competitive race since Lugar’s first win in 1976 (their attempt to build a ground game was pitiful), but I also got the feeling that Lugar’s heart wasn’t in the kind of charge he’d have to make to the right to stave off Mourdock.
Gay rights advocates tell TPM they will “look at all legal options and political options to overturn” North Carolina’s Amendment One.