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LiveBlog for Wednesday, May 9, 2012

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• Comedian Carlos Alazraqui joins us in the Los Angeles Bureau at 9am ET / 6am PT to hang with us and talk about the news of the day

Graeme Zielinski, communications director for the Wisconsin Democratic Party, calls in at 9:30am ET / 6:30am PT to talk about the results of yesterday’s primaries to defeat Gov. Walker

Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D-OH) calls in at 10:30am ET / 7:30am PT to talk about the budget and the GOP’s non-stop obstructionism

• A majority of North Carolina voters on Tuesday approved a controversial amendment that will write a ban on same-sex marriage as well as civil unions for both gay and straight couples into the state Constitution.

• Sen. Richard Lugar – the longest-serving senator in Indiana history – has lost his Republican Senate primary on Tuesday to state Treasurer and Tea Party darling Richard Mourdock.

• Democratic Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett defeated three other Dems and is set to face Wisconsin Republican Gov. Scott Walker in next month’s recall election that has become a nationally watched battle over union rights.

• An insider who worked with the United States and an allied security service to thwart an al-Qaida bomb plot hatched in Yemen was the man picked to carry out the suicide attack on a U.S.-bound airliner. He’d been working for Western intelligence from day one.