There are lots of helpful primary-election summaries out there, via GBH, Herald, Globe etc. But none as piercingly non-objective as Hub Blog’s ‘Six primaries to watch.’ So here goes, before next Tuesday’s progressive/socialist onslaught possibly pushes Massachusetts from deep-blue state to loony left territory.

Wu’s Trump dominance strategy – Like the big guy in the White House, Mayor Wu wants to use the primaries to establish her dominance, punishing perceived intraparty enemies and serving notice to others to stay in line. So she’s going after two Dem state Senators — Will Brownsberger and Nick Collins – who had the nerve to oppose her property-tax plans on Beacon Hill. … I do get a kick out of Brownsberger’s opponent, Eric ‘Thanks Dad’ Lander, who’s trying to out progressive a progressive while tapping into his dad’s network of capitalist friends for funds, as the Globe reports. … GBH has more on the race. And the Herald has more on the Collins-Latoya Gayle race, which hasn’t been as exciting as I had once hoped and expected.

Rollins comeback? – Hub Blog initially put the odds of ethically challenged Rachael Rollins winning back her Suffolk DA seat at 50-50. But I’ve since revised her odds down to 30-70, due to the signature snafu and other missteps that may yet land her in more legal problems. … Still, she can win this one against incumbent Kevin Hayden, who has to be one of the more boring candidates around. But he did get sufficiently nasty the other week, as the Herald reports.

The Big Dud: Markey vs. Moulton — Let’s face it: The Markey-Moulton race for U.S. Senate has been a disappointing dud, a big yawn with little to no umph or controversy. (Sorry, the iPad crack barely counts as a gaffe.) As previously noted, Seth Moulton needs a mini polls-are-wrong miracle to win on Tuesday. If he doesn’t pull it off, he has mostly himself to blame. He made a good case for voting against the geriatric Ed Markey, but he never gave voters a good reason to vote for him, as Charlotte Alter wrote in a sort of pre-primary advance postmortem at the Times.

Another Neal opponent mysteriously tripped up – The 1^stCongressonal Dem primary race was barely on the Hub Blog radar until the NY Post (yes, the Post) came out with a well-timed DUI hit piece on Rep. Richard Neal’s latest to-his-left opponent, Jeromie Whalen, who’s now crying foul. And then all of a sudden the race has gotten interesting. … Btw: Neal’s campaign said it had nothing to do with the DUI leak. You see, a Post reporter just happened to be visiting the Osceola County, Florida, courthouse when he noticed that a case file that was supposed to be sealed wasn’t sealed and so …I still give Whalen a decent chance of knocking off Neal. It’s just one of those years.

Oldie vs Newbie– Here’s another Congressional race pitting a long-time Dem incumbent, this time Steve Lynch, against a hungry young one, Patrick Roach. And it’s another of those races where an upset is possible, theoretically, considering all that’s happened this year in Dem primaries around the country. My hunch on a winner (and centrist preference): Lynch.

Misc. races – I guess I’m supposed to be excited about the open Seth Moulton 6^th Congressional seat that six candidates are now vying to fill. But I’m not excited. Sorry. Still, the contest bears watching, with two DSA types lurking in the crowd and hoping for a surprise win that could land them some brief national attention. … Meanwhile, the Mass. GOP gubernatorial primary has been quiet, if only because Mike Minogue has long thought to have locked up the nomination, based on polls and his big party convention win. But it would be nice to see Brian Shortsleeve do well. We need contested primaries, not coronations, and Shortsleeve deserves credit for sticking it out to the end. Shortsleeve is also admirably more moderate than Minogue, something the Globe pointed out in its recent endorsement of Shortsleeve.