MA Senate - Special Election Results thread

[JerryBrown2010]

Results so far...

(R) Brown 52%
(D) Coakley 47%

with 46% in

CNN said that the western state has mostly come in they still have to get more from the western part of the state.

[Hash]

Call the flipping race, dammit!

Hopefully Obama wakes up and smells the coffee and hopefully the Democrats get competent, for a change.

You might as well hope that Obama buys you a pony. It's about as likely.

True. Carlos Lacerda was more likely to support Vargas than Obama-Democrats are of being competent.

[Sam Spade]

Ok, now I am getting convinced. Brown seems to be pulling it.

Though, an interesting sideline: have you noticed the Western part of the state?

Yes - it's called the Berkshires.  Fascinating class voting patterns but pretty Democratic (even with Coakley)

[Hash]

Why is western Massachusetts so liberal and Democratic again?

[RIP Robert H Bork]

There are a LOT of Brown towns that haven't even begun to report.  I mean, my god, the most Republican part of the most Republican county is still out.

What are you referring to specifically for those of us who don't have a map of MA memorized?

I guess somewhere in Plymouth County.

[cinyc]

56% in:

[J. J.]

Ok, that's cool, but inferring that from the precinct results is stupid and anecdotal turnout reports suck.  I'm 19 and I've watched politics long enough to know that.

I'm relaying a report on Black turnout.  

Boston 37% in, C at 60.7%.  There are additional reports of lower turnout there.

[cinyc]

[Ebowed]

anyone got a link to county results so far?

[Holmes]

ACORN SHOULD'VE WORKED HARDER

[auburntiger]

WOW! I cannot believe what I'm seeing/hearing on the news

[East Coast Republican]

I came by for the election.

What are the moderators gonna do?  Are they going to censor and ban me?!

[Hash]

NYT is great with results again: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/01/19/us/politics/massachusetts-election-map.html

[M]

Waltham for Brown!!!

[Hash]

Dean: "There's no way of saying from Burlington, VT" (talking of results from Boston).

Yes, there is. There's a way of saying that from Kotlas, Russia.

[muon2]

Ok, now I am getting convinced. Brown seems to be pulling it.

Though, an interesting sideline: have you noticed the Western part of the state?

Yes - it's called the Berkshires.  Fascinating class voting patterns but pretty Democratic (even with Coakley)

Remember, it's immediately south of VT, with similar demographics.

[You kip if you want to...]

Howard Dean: "Scott Brown isn't going to vote how Massachusetts voters want." (paraphrased)

[Lief 🗽]

Howard Dean: "Scott Brown isn't going to vote how Massachusetts voters want." (paraphrased)

Of course he won't.

[Sam Spade]

WOW! I cannot believe what I'm seeing/hearing on the news

Have you been asleep for the past couple of weeks?

[East Coast Republican]

You think Democrats wouldve learned by now to stop taking advice from Howard Dean

[Barnes]

Howard Dean: "Scott Brown isn't going to vote how Massachusetts voters want." (paraphrased)

Of course he won't.

I don't think that was ever in question.

[You kip if you want to...]

Howard Dean: "Scott Brown isn't going to vote how Massachusetts voters want." (paraphrased)

Of course he won't.

Exactly, which is why this will be an incredibly easy pick-up in 2012... as long as the candidate doesn't go on vacation.

[Torie]

Other than Belmont which I know Brown is short of his pvi by 3%, how many other towns is Brown short in?  He is ahead of his PVI in  Boston at the moment by 3%, with about half the vote in.  Does a 7% Brown margin sound reasonable, assuming marginally lighter turnout in Dem areas?

[Tender Branson]

Brown is on course to beat McCain slightly in total number of votes, while Coakley gets only 1/2 of Obama's.

[Meeker]

How the hell do you write a concession speech for a night like this?