The September Primaries - Part 1

This month there will be five primary elections on September 9:  Delaware, Massachusettes, New Hampshire, New York, and Rhode Island.  All are congressional primaries except for New York which is only a state primary as New York held it's congressional primary in June.

Today, we will look at New Hampshire's Primary. NH has a mixed primary system. This means that, "Unaffiliated voters may vote in the primary, but in order to do so, they have to choose a party before voting. This changes their status from unaffiliated to affiliated with that party, unless they fill out a card to return to undeclared status."
http://ballotpedia.org/United_States_House_of_Representatives_elections_in_New_Hampshire,_2014

Both of the Congressional seats are held by Democrats. Carol Shea-Porter and Ann McLane Custer are currently the Representatives from New Hampshire. Neither one has a Democratic opponent in the Primary.
On the Republican side, there are four candidates in each district running in the primary.

In the Governor's race, the incumbent, Maggie Hassan (D), has two primary opponents. There are also four candidates in the Republican primary to run for Governor in the November 4th election.

Ballotpedia has information on the state legislature races here:  http://ballotpedia.org/New_Hampshire_State_Senate_elections,_2014
http://ballotpedia.org/New_Hampshire_House_of_Representatives_elections,_2014

In New York, the September 9th primary is for state offices only. Their Congressional primary was held earlier.

The Delaware primary will set the slate for the November 4th election for both houses of Congress, the state houses, and three of the state executives. Delaware has a strictly closed primary system. Incumbent Senator Chris Coons (D) has no opponent in the Democratic primary. There are two Republican candidates running for the nomination for senate. The winner will face Coons in November.

Delaware has one at-large congressional district and the incumbent, John C. Carney, Jr. (D) is running unopposed in the Democratic primary. He will have three opponents in the November election.

You can read more about Delaware's 2014 elections here: http://ballotpedia.org/Delaware_elections,_2014

If you live in one of these five states, please get out on Tuesday and vote for Democrats.

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