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Last night, there were 44 House primaries, 4 Senate primaries, and 7 gubernatorial primaries.  You can track them -- in fact, every race in the country, every 2010 midterm -- on our non-partisan, publicly-editable wiki project: RaceTracker.  Click through for links to each individual race and a helpful one-sentence summary of exactly where things stand after last night.

Last week, for more than an hour on national television, President Obama and members of Congress were engaged in an unscripted, off-the-cuff debate about the policy issues that affect us. A new coalition -- Demand Question Time -- wants to make this a regular feature of our democracy.

Not surprisingly, the vote over Obama's $3.6 trillion budget (H. Con. Res. 85) tonight was a deeply partisan affair. Not a single Republican voted in favor. Republicans have been very good this session of Congress with holding their party together in opposition to the Presidents' most significant measures. The Democrats, on the other hand, always tend to lose some votes to the other side. On Obama's budget, a full 20 Democrats votes with the Republicans against Obama's budget