MA Senate - Special Election Results thread

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Nobody is declaring it.

How do you propose they declare a race like this without exit polls?

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Coakley's pollster (Lake, according to Fox) blaming the White House; White House blaming Coakley.

Just love circular firing squad before the result is announced.

I don't know what Coakley's people think Obama was supposed to do differently. She's the one that squandered a 15 point lead in a week. Obama and the national party's numbers stayed pretty constant throughout the same period, so it's clear that it's largely her fault.

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Coakley's pollster (Lake, according to Fox) blaming the White House; White House blaming Coakley.

Just love circular firing squad before the result is announced.

I don't know what Coakley's people think Obama was supposed to do differently. She's the one that squandered a 15 point lead in a week. Obama and the national party's numbers stayed pretty constant throughout the same period, so it's clear that it's largely her fault.

Too soft on Wall Street; not enough attention to Main Street.  I'm just reporting, not commenting.

Even if that's so, the national situation has not changed in the past two weeks or so, while her poll numbers have. She was winning by a healthy margin even when Obama was "too soft on Wall Street; not enough attention to Main Street."

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4% Reporting

Brown: 30,579 (52%)
Coakley: 27,551 (47%)

marthamentum!

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Is Boston Globe working for anybody right now?

It's being kind of slow and I'm having to manually update it.

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Western Mass is going heavily for Coakley

No one lives in western Mass. unfortunately.

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Democrats better start "finding" some votes in Boston.

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

Of course he won't.

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

"Thank you! Thank you! I appreciate that you've decided to greet me with boos instead of cheers and applause.

About two months ago, I set out on a journey. A journey to get myself elected Senator of one of the bluest states in the country for life. From the very beginning we faced obstacles: winning the primary by only about 20%; starting with an insurmountable lead over a sacrificial lamb of a candidate. But I knew in my heart of hearts that my over-paid consultants and I could, if we worked together, surmount these challenges and lose Ted Kennedy's seat by 7 points."

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Hopefully this will be a wake-up call to complacent Democrats.

That's the one silver-lining. Maybe now they'll stop dicking around and start passing legislation. I'm not holding my breath though.

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Democrats still seem not to get what's going on.

Republicans don't either, of course (at least not what I see), but Scott Brown is benefitting from Democrats in this particular situation.

Just IMO.

go on...

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Folks - take a second to study those Clinton-Obama 2008 numbers and this election and tell me what you see....  I know Al already sees it.

Democrats had better pay attention. 

Um... working class Bay Staters hate a black?

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I thought Brown's speech was hilarious. He offered his daughters to the public as well. I imagine he was still a bit in shock that he actually won.

Hot.