MA Senate - Special Election Results thread

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First precincts are up on boston.com.

At last. The map now appears on the main page too.

Anyway Brown leads by just 5 points now.

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Brown leads by just 3 now.

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Coakley from Obama:

Ashland: -31.14%

Holland town: -36.75%

Monroe town (tiny): -33.09%

Middleton: -31.28%

Oxford: -39.52%

These are not sustainable numbers.  The only caveat is that we have nothing from the Boston metro yet.  They are consistent with a win of 5% to 10%, maybe a tick more.

What was Obama's percentage win in Mass as a whole, which we subtract from these numbers to get a projected margin in this race?

Obama won Massachusetts 62 to 36.

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Brown back to a 5 point lead.

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Currently Brown has 43% in Boston.

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Currently Brown has 43% in Boston.

That must be Republican areas.

Name one.

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Coakley won 57% in her hometown of Medford, in suburban Boston. Brown got 42%.

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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.

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Brown declared the winner....

http://www.boston.com/news/special/politics/2010/senate/results.html

Note the green checkmark.

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Yahoo has it going for Brown.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_massachusetts_senate

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From Yahoo...

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Despite Scott Brown's victory, I don't think so.

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Scott Brown won his hometown of Wrentham 73 to 27 (!).

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Thanks, I am surprised at the amount of districts Brown 'carried'. Could the GOP realistically gain a house seat in Mass?

I doubt it, at least as the representatives stand now.

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Here are Boston's precinct results, so cinyc can finish the CD data for MA-8 and MA-9.

Wow, Brown only got 3.98% in Ward 14.
What's up with this area?

Brown improved on McCain's 1.76% in Ward 14.  It's the most Democrat-leaning ward in Boston.  I think it's North Dorchester and Mattapan. 

The white population in North Dorchester has been in decline for decades.  Mattapan is heavily African American.

I thought that Roxbury was the most Democratic part of Boston...then again it is right next door to Dorchester and Mattapan.