CQ Politics’ Viewer’s Guide to Today’s Congressional Primaries

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CQ Politics’ Viewer’s Guide to Today’s Congressional Primaries
By Greg Giroux and Bob Benenson, CQ Staff


While today’s contests for U.S. Senate and House seats have been overshadowed by the fact that it is a milestone day in the 2008 presidential campaign, the day could also be seen as the “Super Tuesday” of 2008’s congressional primaries.

Seven states are holding House primaries — Alabama, California, Iowa, Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico and South Dakota — with all but California also having Senate seats at stake.

That ties Tuesday with Sept. 9 for the date this year with the most states holding congressional primaries. The 83 districts in the seven states holding primaries Tuesday comprise nearly one-fifth of the entire House membership, with 53 of those districts in California alone.

With so much going on in so many different places, CQ Politics provides the following viewer’s guide to Tuesday’s congressional primary contests.

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