Primaries in AL, MS and NM, and the Blanche Lincoln-Bill Halter runoff in AR.
The only big thing that jumps out at me is GOV-AL-R. Roy Moore is trying again, and while I liked what he did on the Alabama Supreme Court, his act got really boring really quickly. So if he wins this primary, it will be sort of an upset. The two big contenders are Tim James, son of former Gov. Fob James, and Bradley Byrne, who was the statewide chancellor of the Alabama J.C. system. I don’t know enough about either one to have a preference. There is a chance that a black will win GOV-D, that being Artur Davis, who holds AL-7 in the U.S. House ATM. However, this Republican Primary is the election for all intents and purposes, according to credible polling.
Also from Alabama is that R-primary for Ag Commissioner. Hope Dale Peterson does well.
AL must have moved up its primary date. Used to be that it was in late July — The reason I know that is that the 2006 AL primaries took place during the Great St. Louis Power Outage of July 2006, and I found out about both Roy Moore and George Wallace Jr. losing their respective bids using my hand crank radio.
I haven’t seen any polling for the Lincoln-Halter runoff. But I have seen polling that the Republican nominee, who did get more than 50%, easily beats either in November.
