It doesn’t appear Alan Jacquemotte is running for anything.  Formerly of the Natural Law party (maybe the last candidate for the party ever?)  and now a Republican.

I suppose he didn’t spell out when he was running here, but I did just assume he was running this year.  Oh well.  I had intended to poke in at around primary time.  The primary is on.  I don’t see him.  So it goes…

Michigan.  Or, for one of the fluke one party states where there’s nothing up in the Senate contest.  Pete Hoekstra is supposed to win against Clark Durant.  And then lose in November.  But be reasonably competitive in doing so.

Missouri’s Republican Senate race, on the other hand, is… fun?
 But in Missouri, FreedomWorks, the Express, and other influential conservative players find themselves on opposite sides of tomorrow’s contested Senate primary. FreedomWorks for America, the super PAC arm of conservative nonprofit FreedomWorks, has endorsed businessman John Brunner. The Tea Party Express, however, has thrown its support and $76,000 in outside spending behind former state treasurer Sarah Steelman, who recently claimed Sarah Palin’s endorsement. Meanwhile, a third candidate, Rep. Todd Akin (R-Mo.) has been endorsed by Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.), who heads the Congressional Tea Party Caucus.

Claire McCaskill, the Democratic incumbent, is probably the most vulnerable Democrat going into November.

Your Ron Paul “Lberty” candidates in all three state primary races.

Meanwhile, Washington is left watching to see… whether the Republican or the Democratic nominee will come in first.  It doesn’t matter, but the state needs to watch something.  Otherwise we’re down to the typical clown show lineup of perennials.  Please, everyone… vote for goodspaceguy.

Tennessee Democratic US Senate Primary vote percentage totals.

Mark Clayton 30 percent
Gary Gene Davis 15.4 percent
Park Overall 15.1 percent
Larry Crimm 11 percent
Dave Hancock 10.2 percent
Benjamin Roberts 10 percent
Thomas Owens 8.3 percent

The winner is… Mark Clayton.  He’s ran before.

Mark Clayton is the former vice president of the Public Advocate of The United States — the same deeply paranoid, gay-hating outfit that misappropriated a gay couple’s wedding photo for use in a political advertisement earlier this year, and last week published what was supposed to be a funny song about child-molesting gay scoutmasters.

These offenses against taste and sanity don’t begin to describe the full breadth and depth of Clayton’s weirdness, or the Public Advocate’s. Mother Jones has an instructive breakdown, which informs us that Clayton once believed the Chinese government had teamed with Google to destroy his political career; that Clayton has denounced Arnold Schwarzenegger as a sort of Austrian Manchurian candidate whose mission is to bring Nazi eugenics to America; and that Clayton’s deepest fears include the construction of a superhighway from Canada to Mexico, the completion of which would for some reason destroy the United States. […]
Elsewhere, he warns of an encroaching “godless new world order” and suggests that Americans who speak out against government policies could some day be placed in “a bone-crushing prison camp similar to the one Alexander Solzhenitsyn was sent or to one of FEMA’s prison camps.” (There are no FEMA prison camps.)

Apparently the state party had asked Park Overall to run.  She’s an actress, best known as a cast member of the sitcom Empty Ness from decades back.  The thought seemed to be that she would have thrown out an occasional one liner and had an amount of fun in her run up to a loss in November that would have made for some good occasional copy.  It’s instructive that the candidate considered to be her main opponent, as per actually spending some money on the thing, came in fourth.  Overall wasn’t that famous, and Mark Clayton was first on the ballot.  So he wins the primary.  And the Democratic Party in the state disowns his candidacy.

And… the problem for the party.  If you’re a Democrat running for the House in rural Tennessee and you see Barack Obama at the top of the ticket and Mark Clayton under him, you’re probably already thinking about calling it a day.

Texas US Senate Democratic Primary election run-off results.
Paul Sadler 63.1 percent
Grady Yarbrough  36.9 percent

At least the state party got their lackluster candidate in.  The county map totals would be worth a look.   I’ve covered Yarbrough’s campaign here:   Yarbrough is popularly believed to have gotten through off of his name, but there’s probably a bit of minority identity politics in there, and the map should show that I think.  Anyway… it is instructive that the Democratic Primary came down to the party establishment pick (reluctantly) versus whoever’s name popped out best… and that last time Yarbrough won he was a Republican where his name didn’t help any.

Mississippi.  He has a famous name.

Albert Gore, Jr.  At least here this old man aligns with party policies, and there’s not much reason anyone else would’ve won.   Let’s see the vote totals.

Albert Gore 56.8 percent
Roger Weiner 24.4 percent
Will Oatis 18.8 percent

Yeah, he probably won because of his name.  The party might have preferred the Afghanistan War veteran, but I doubt they worry too much.

Maine.  The Democrat that is dumped from the party.

There’s nothing wrong with Maine’s candidate.  May be too left for the state party’s liking, and her narrow victory exposed some geopolitical rifts with a gun-toting opponent who’d not step anywhere near Occupy crowds she’s willing to speak to.  But the matter with Cynthia Dill is that she has essentially been dumped by the party, who is running with the Independent Angus King.  It is an interesting situation, that will only lead to a bitter campaign by Cynthia Dill and random flounderings about the rise of the Charlie Crists of the world.

Wyoming.  One chance to avoid embarrassment.

Just to be sure it’s two perennials and an elected official somewhere.  The two dozen Democrats in this state — trust me:  you want Chesnut.   At least the neo-nazi that is running is in the Republican Primary — that saves the party from another case of the situation in Tennessee.  Just trying to warn your state party.

The Republican sacrificial lamb senate races follow a different dynamic.  There are no shortage of “rich men on an educational crusade to teach capitalism” or “Ron Paul Revolution” figures to fill the void of party shrugs.  The former follows the model in Delaware and the latter Minnesota.   Or there’s Rhode Island‘s example — we see that type of promotional purpose campaigning out there.
And yet we Still, there was talk that Orly Taitz could win the California primary in the new Top 2 jungle system, but she didn’t … I don’t know that that’s a shame in balancing the gnashing teeth qualities of party schadenfreude.  I note that the party invited Alan Keyes to run against Obama in 2004, and that someone like Ted Cruz is about to win an easy victory in Texas, so things are balanced away already anyway.

I will be watching to see how Vermont’s Senate primary turns out.  This is actually kinda interesting… it’s moderate of old school type against Tea Party conservative for the sake of taking on and losing badly to the one avowed Socialist in the Senate.  I want to see what Vermont is, and this election will show a bit of what Vermont is.

Tennessee apparently holds its primary elections today.  Here’s the biggy, the marquee race, and it is…  A race from Hell.
House of Representatives 6th District:  Freshman Republican Representative Diane Black is challenged by Lou Ann Zelenik, who lost to Black in a primary to represent the rural district two years ago by less than 300 votes.
The heart of the struggle is over the Islamic Center of Murfreesboro, about 30 miles south of Nashville, which has been controversial since construction began two years ago.
Zelenik, who vigorously opposed the mosque and warned of potential terrorist connections, said Black was not forceful enough in her opposition.
“I will work to stop the Islamization of our society, and do everything possible to prevent Sharia law from circumventing our laws and our Constitution,” Zelenik said.

Good old exciting Southern Fried politics of yore.

There’s apparently another “exciting” Republican primary with the 3rd district, but it’s difficult to figure out what it’s all about.  No “Establishment” versus “Tea Party”, it’s just a bunch of pols and political legacy family figures wanting a ladder on their political career so they can cash in as a lobbyist in a decade or two.  Looks like the incumbent will win.

And here’s the Democratic Primary front runner for US Senate
Actress Park Overall said the Democratic nomination campaign has been an eye-opening experience for a political neophyte.
“Why everyone is so careful with what they say is annoying. I don’t know if you can tell the truth anymore,” said Overall, who starred in the popular television series “Empty Nest” in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

Just don’t bother voting.

Time to look over Washington State’s primary voters guide.  Why?  Why not?
It’s pretty user-friendly, the online version.  I can just go down the list and graze.  And find… A Reform Candidate for Senator.

Will Baker.  As a direct result of Will’s community service, Will believes the number one issue in the 2012 U.S. Senate election should be the illegal and unethical election practices used by Washington Secretary of State Sam Reed.  Hm.  Interesting definition of community service.  Except then we get this:   I believe the number one issue in the 2012 U.S. Senate election should be impeaching President Barack Obama specifically for Obama’s decision to give America’s state of art military spy drone technology to Iran  … The man needs to prioritize.  What’s number one, what’s number two?

Glen (Stocky) R. Stockwell for a Republican.  I have taken “My Project Proposal” to Senator Cantwell for “nearly 3 years”. I believe without doubt I am the only person who has proclaimed “I know how to pay for this Project without any new Taxes and at the lowest Cost Per Acre”! “Aggressive Leadership is Needed Now to Change Our State’s Future Destiny” followed by immediate action!
“Thousands of Real Washington Jobs” and a “2 Billion Dollar State Construction Project”! What our State needs now is funding! Currently 1.7 Trillion is available in already Allocated for National Economic Development Stimulus Projects! Washington State 2013 Congressional leaders will have a historical opportunity to lead our Nation by completing the “Eighth Wonder of the World”. President Franklin Roosevelt’s “Columbia Basin Project”!
Kind of an over-sales job on this one?

I don’t see any moderately amusing Senate candidates.  So now let’s see the Republicans running against Doc Hastings in the 4th district.

 Jamie Wheeler is not a ladder climbing politician, but rather an American boldly exercising her Constitutional Right to run for office as the Founding Fathers had intended. She is Constitutionally Qualified
Sigh.  Yes.  You can run for office.

Mohammad H Said.  Yeah.  This isn’t going anywhere…
He is pro cannabis as an alternative medicine for patients who are qualified, particularly edible, not legalization or recreational  Hm.  I’d prefer my pro-cannabis to go all the way.
He is pro business to market products, training, technology to the Arab Spring countries, which are similar to our district’s climate, landscape, etc, as we helped some achieve democracy.
No clue what that means.

There is a Democrat, and I suppose that means she will probably be the one to make the primary round against Hastings.  And Mary Baechler is better than Gordon Allen Pross, I would say, though I imagine her campaign as essentially a promotional attempt for her Baby Jogger company.

It looks like Goodspaceguy is running again.  In the 7th district.  I say go for him so that we can bat him around for another few months until you re-elect McDermott.
To learn about my thrifty, recycling, orbital space colonization program, visit my second blog at http://colonizeorbitalspace.blogspot.com  With the mass-of-money we have already spent, we should already have our beginning, orbital space colonies, but we don’t because our leaders have not been educated in orbital space colonization.

… Looking down the list, I have one last question.  Is there a pension that goes with serving for a month in Congress?  Because there’s just a lot of people running for a special election to serve out a single month in the 1st Congressional district.  There are seven running for a whole term; eleven for a month term.  Only 3 of them are running for both.  Yeah, go with Ruth Morrison who charges head first.
As an hourly employee I have developed the skills to lead and plan. The future will have many challenges and respect for many cultures is a part of my life and our communities. For a month the privilege to severe, would be a great honor, I sincerely would appreciate your vote

Though I do have an affinity for the sheer galls of just tossing up a whole mass of platitudes.  So maybe Bob Champion can be your Champion?

I am running for this office because I believe in the future. I believe the future demands that we be brave enough to try something new. I believe the future requires that we change course, challenge the status quo, and seek discourse on the problems that unite us. By working together with a vision and a plan, that future is today’s reality.
We, the people, have a unique opportunity to voice our strong desire that the parties shun their partisan politics and demand that they work together. I know that by working together, we can accomplish great things. I know that by working together, we will lay the foundation for future generations to build upon.
Like Benjamin Franklin, I believe that words are worthless without demonstrated action. Congress needs to hear a voice that seeks to inspire change. As your voice, I will challenge each member to shed party politics. We must reach across the aisle, embrace each other, and resolve to work together. The future demands that we take that chance today. I urge you to take that chance and vote for me. I’ll get the job done.