MA Maps

As promised, here is the county map from last night for Mr. Brown's victory (52-47):

For comparison, here is the map of Mr. Obama's win over Mr. McCain in 2008 (62-36):

For additional comparison, a hair over 3 million votes were cast in the 2008 election with Mr. Obama getting 1.9 million of them. Mr. McCain got 1.1 million. Last night, 2.25 million votes were cast with Mr. Brown getting 1.17 million of them. This is a turnout drop-off of about 25%, which isn't bad for a special election in January. Still, it's something to consider when doing the post-mordem. I'll try to tackle that later today.

One more thing. How’s this for an Oh Shit! moment? In last night’s election, Mr. Brown won independents 73-25.