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Results: AL, MS, HI
6:42 PM PT (David Nir): In AL-06 (R), Rep. Spencer Bachus is up 59-26 over state Sen. Scott Beason with 10% reporting. According to a local news reporter, Beason's hometown of Gardendale (in Jefferson County) came in for Bachus. If so, it's hard to see Bachus losing.
6:42 PM PT (Jed Lewison): On CNN, Candy Crowley goes way out on a limb and says the Newt Gingrich "has to win something" in order to have a shot at the nomination. Well, yeah. Of course he does.
6:42 PM PT: As we've been noting, Drudge proclaimed earlier that Mitt Romney would win Mississippi tonight. As of this post, Romney is coming in third. Hoping that holds!
6:43 PM PT (David Nir): In AL-05 (R), Rep. Mo Brooks is predictably crushing ex-Rep. Parker Griffith, 71-29 with 7% reporting. I don't know what Griffith was thinking, but he spent over half a mil of his own money on this hopeless quest.
6:51 PM PT (David Jarman): In MS-04, freshman GOP Rep. Steven Palazzo has won his primary, according to the AP. He's at 71%. No one was really expecting him to lose since he was up against not one but two different Some Dudes, though he had some stink lines coming off him going into the election due to alleged ethical improprieties and poor relations with the local GOP establishment.
6:53 PM PT (David Nir): NBC is projecting Rick Santorum has won the Alabama GOP primary.
6:53 PM PT:
And the GOP will go to humiliate they guy they're going to nominate for at least a few more weeks.
— @LOLGOP via TweetDeck
6:56 PM PT (David Jarman): One other House GOP primary we're keeping half an eye on is AL-01, where long-timer Jo Bonner is up against Dean Young, whose long-shot candidacy got an inexplicable financial boost from the Campaign for Primary Accountability (the same mystery PAC that helped kick out Jean Schmidt last week). Looks like CPA won't be claiming another scalp tonight, though, as Bonner's up 63-26 with 9% reporting.
6:58 PM PT (Steve Singiser): More pain for Romney, this time in Mississippi. With 57 percent of precincts now in, Newt Gingrich has surged a bit. What was a mere 200 vote lead over Mitt Romney is now a 2045 vote lead. Santorum still holds a lead of about 2000 votes over Gingrich.
7:00 PM PT (Kaili Joy Gray): New thread here.