Five of the six candidates for United States Senator in today’s primary election have run statewide before: Frank Lautenberg for the Senate in 1982, 1988, 1994, and 2002; Rob Andrews for Governor in the 1997 primary; Donald Cresitello in the 1982 U.S. Senate primary; Dick Zimmer for the Senate in 1996; and Murray Sabrin for Governor in 1997 (as the Libertarian candidate) and for GOP U.S. Senate nomination in 2000.