New York's 1998 Democratic Senate primary was supposed to be brutal.

Lamont ran against Senator Joe Lieberman in the 2006 August Democratic Senate primaries.

It was a rare moment in the Senate Democratic primary in New York: a disagreement among the candidates on an issue.

In today's Senate primaries, Ms. Feinstein, a 60-year-old moderate liberal, faced no major opponent in the Democratic contest.

As with the Senate primaries, those races seem to be already over.

Admissions that the White House intentionally sought to manipulate the outcome of Democratic Senate primaries strike at the heart of our democracy.

Six serious women contenders have now won major party nominations; a dozen others are running in Senate primaries elsewhere.

Mr. Sharpton generated strong support among black New Yorkers in the Democratic Senate primaries in both 1994 and 1992.

Hoping to avoid a divisive convention, the state Democratic leaders decided early in the year not to endorse candidates in the Senate primaries.

Mr. Lott was particularly exercised over the White House practice of picking its preferred candidates in some Republican Senate primaries.