Tuesday, January 19, 2010

MA Special Election

1:00 PM Early word is that turnout in the city is light (7%) but turnout in the suburbs of Boston and surrounding areas is very heavy. This bodes very well for Mr. Brown.

1:20 PM Coakley GOTV folks are getting rebuffed. Not good for her.

1:30 PM Wall Street Journal is reporting that due to the quickness of the Brown surge, the standard exit polling firms did not put their people in place in time. As such, there will be no exit polls for the race.

1:55 PM Got to love Ed Schultz /s

2:05 PM Rasmussen has announced that he will have exit polls. Expect his site to crash soon.

2:15 PM Interesting report. Apparently the NRSC and RNC actually knows how to learn.

2:30 PM Oops. You just can't trust media folks when you rig an election.

2:35 PM Intrade pushing Brown over 80 now.

3:15 PM One bookie is already paying off for Mr. Brown. Sucks to be him if he's wrong.

8:00 PM Polls closed. With no exit polls, it'll be a while before results come in.

9:22 PM Coakley concedes with 75% of the vote counted and it's 53-46 Brown.

9:30 PM Difficult to get more info right now. Just about all conservative sites are crashing due to traffic volume. CNN is stuck on Larry King (talking about Haiti), Fox is only talking to ex-Republicans, and I refuse to watch Rachel Maddow and the Democrat blame game. Should be better when CNN goes back to regular programing at 10. (52-47, 87% reporting)

9:45 PM The worst part of Larry King is that there is no chance to use the special CNN board.

9:56 PM Coakley giving her concession speech.

10:00 PM Boston.com has the map of the counties as they shook out. A couple of days ago, I screencaped the map of Mr. Obama's victory over Mr. McCain. Comparing the two is interesting.

10:15 PM Off to bed. We'll go over this corpse tomorrow (52-47 with 96% in).

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