Brown-Coakley election night thread
Well, the polls are closed. Now we wait. Here’s a thread where you can talk about it.
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Well, the polls are closed. Now we wait. Here’s a thread where you can talk about it.
Here’s a good county-by-county map that is being continuously updated.
http://www.boston.com/news/special/politics/2010/senate/results.html
That site is loading slowly. It’s probably getting hammered from all over the country.
A Talk-Radio Host (Conservative) called it for Brown based on statements out of the Coakley camp blaming the WH: http://michaelgraham.com/archives/brown-wins/
I was just reading this interesting article over at Reason Magazine Online.
http://reason.com/archives/2010/01/19/notes-from-the-massachusetts-s
Of note:
“At the Obama event on Sunday, the union guys were hard to spot (though a small contingent of “SEIU for Brown” supporters were camped in the middle of Huntington Avenue). Perhaps they were all inside the Obama revival tent, but the Brown contingent outside Northeastern was large, loud, and energized, while the Coakley sign carriers not only look drained of energy, they look defeated and depressed.”
SEIU for Brown? Holy Stniking Stalin on pogo stick!
I’m reminded of tthe Ghostbusters:
“Fire and brimstone coming down from the skies! Rivers and seas boiling! Forty years of darkness! Earthquakes, volcanoes. The dead rising from the grave! Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together… mass hysteria!”
Here’s another site reporting results. It’s at the top of the screen.
http://www.wrko.com/node
I’m listening to Mark Levin, and he just said that CNN has gone to Haiti coverage.
1/5 (20%) of vote in. Brown up 7 pts. No idea if City or Suburbs have repeorted etc.
Follow this guy: Wasserman.
rickl. Thanks for the WRKO link.
Globe jumps the gun in online map goof.
Lots of eagle eyes today.
30% in; Brown up 53=47.
Two commenters on O’Reilly, 1 Dem 1 Repub, both practiucally saying Brown will win.
Where the results are coming from (ordinarily Democrat? ordinarily Republican?) is what’s most important. I don’t see coverage on TV about that.
I am chillin’ the champagne!!!!
Neo: The link in my first comment has a county map, but is loading slowly. I don’t think it’s completely down, though.
That map of Massachusetts is somewhat better, but it’s not telling us if ordinarily Democratic counties are breaking for Brown. What I see there is what might be expected: Boston and the Berkshires are blue, the rest red.
Drudge has:
SCOTT BROWN (R) 52%
MARTHA COAKLEY (D) 47%
Wow, this is like Barney Frank winning in Mississippi. Unfreakingbelievable.
60% in. Brown 53-46
I’m keeping my fingers crossed for Scott Brown!
65% in, 53% Brown, Coakley 46%!
As Don Merideth used to sing, “Turn out the lights….”
Wahoo!
Pigs cleared for takeoff…
Pigs starting to get those wings warmed up.
Brown is ahead by almost 90,000 votes now. That’s going to be pretty hard to fudge.
70% in. Brown holding 7
Bring it home, Brown!
Smile, Dems gasping for air like a woman in the backseat of an sinking Oldsmobile.
Coakley concedes!!!!!
FOX NEWS: AP predicts BROWN victory!!!
Jim Geraghty on Hugh Hewitt. Done deal. Amazing!!
Occam’s Beard Says:
January 19th, 2010 at 9:15 pm
Pigs cleared for takeoff…
neo-neocon Says:
January 19th, 2010 at 9:15 pm
Pigs starting to get those wings warmed up.
Wow! Great minds really do think alike.
Obama agenda? Waterloo!
http://tinyurl.com/yzc56c8
Meanwhile, in Washington, Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid have had a rude awakening. Damn neighbors!
Done!! Won!!!
I am so excited!!
It’s Over. Brown wins
This is just the beginning….November awaits!!!!
I just heard someone on MSLSD say, “As Americans try to absorb the news that the Democrats have lost Ted Kennedy’s seat to the Republicans…”
At or about 5:30 PM, the Coakley campaign issued a press release alleging that Republicans were engaged in vote fraud and that ballots pre-marked for Scott Brown were handed out outside polling places
Coakley has hired Marc Elias…
took 8 mths to wrap up his last gig with franken.
anyone confirm this?
Please… Ted can take a long drive off a short pier.
Wait…. he did that already didnt he?
I was able to catch the Globe site at the beginning. AT 13% of the vote, turnout was 35% of that compared to 2008.
For those towns: 36% for McCain which is the same % for the whole state.
For Brown: 53%, so he is running 17% above that of McCain.
OK. I’m done absorbing.
Now let’s party!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
As the Reds used to say when I was at Berkeley, “Dare to struggle, dare to win!”
Great news!
OKAAAAAYYY, Gang…Here’s a Bunny Hole-Alice Moment for you. Steny Hoyer says that the Mass. election was a massive rejection of REPUBLICAN Policies !
I am, for the umpteenth time in the past few months, SPEECHLESS. Whew.
Whoopie!!!
Artfldgr
RE Mark Elias, I cannot confirmFuture Shock Strikes The Coakley Campaign There is a screenshot at the link.
It might be related to this bit of news from earlier in the day courtesy of Instapundit. You’re Not Supposed to Get an Absentee Ballot in a Box of Cracker JacksVideo at the link.
Stunning. God Bless the people of Massachusett(e)s.
Now, maybe the people of my state can show some backbone.
Hey, “Barry,” I hear Habitat for Humanity is hiring.
Just sayin’.
Woohoo! Finally.
I am celebrating!!
A single malt toast to Brown and MA voters. Love the rumor that Brown may deliver the Republican response to the State of the Union speech. (Hardly anyone ever watches it.) It would be a brilliant move — possibly drawing more viewers than the Obama’s address.
One more toast of thanks to someone who helped make tonight possible — thank you David Gergen!
The vote fraud claim was dated the day before the election. Woops!
THANK YOU Massachusetts! Thank you Neo! Thank you America!
The town by town results are truly amazing. Cambridge is showing that it is moonbat headquarters. God bless the rational intelligence of the non-academics in Massachusetts!
From the San Francisco Chronicle, linked by Instapundit earlier today.
Quote from Gavin Newsome, mayor of SF: “Regardless of the outcome … this should be a gigantic wake-up call to the Democratic Party – that we’re not connecting with the needs, the aspirations and the desires of real people right now.”
DUH!
So exciting!
Very enlightening was a Frank Luntz focus group (during Hannity on FOX). Focus group was all Dems and there those that voted for Obama & Coakley; Obama voters who switched to Brown non-Obama voters who voted for Brown. But the overriding message was SENDING A MESSAGE TO WASHINGTON! Almost everyone agreed on that. When Luntz asked if they thought Dems would/should try to play shenanigans and not seat Brown before pushing thru the healthcare bill, nearly unanimously, everyone was AGAINST this and sounded very angry about it — Coakley voters, as well as Brown voters!
I have a brother who lives in CA and he’s become a liberal’s liberal. So pro-Obama I couldn’t believe it! I’ve received endless derision, holier-than-thou patronizing speeches. etc.
Well, tonite I had to run to the window to see if the sky was falling! Right after he told me, “y’know, I kind of want that guy to win. We need to send a message to Washington!” He actually said to me (I think it was the first time in his life he has said these words): I was wrong.
(And no, the sky didn’t fall. But as someone above mentioned, somewhere there are pigs flapping their newly sprouted wings!)
Amazingly, still now, the Dems, and the incomparable — and incompetent, Robert Gibbs, are spinning the election results…and what else? Blaming it on Bush!
I just opened up one of the mini champagne bottles I had left over from New Year’s Eve. To Liberty!
Good news indeed but stay frosty, troops–a bad dress rehearsal is a good shakedown for the real show, and that’s coming in November. The Dems got caught flat-footed today, don’t expect them to be this inept ten months from now unless this triggers a major revolt. We can hope it does, but keep your powder dry just in case….
Pigs On The Wing, Parts I and II
by Pink Floyd (1977)
Besides delivering a mesage to this administration and Washington, there is a second, message that was sent today (as well as in November): We, the People, DO have a voice, and MUST USE IT! We must stand behind our convictions, and we must vote when we have the opportunity to do so. I live in very VERY liberal NYC, but never again will I think to myself, what difference is my one little vote going to make? I know I’m not the only one. People of Massachusetts tonite have shown what all those single votes can say when they’re counted together!
Thank you, Massachusetts, and best hopes and prayers to Scott Brown for a successful and profound shake-up in the Senate!
ipw533 Says:
January 19th, 2010 at 10:03 pm
I know. As I said on an earlier thread:
Amen, csimon. Thats been what I’ve been trying to convey for some time. The ballot box is our best weapon.
Followed the campaign on HillBuzz but have dropped in here daily. The ‘crew’ there was as hyped as here tonight. And even Michelle Malkin was happy on her site!
I thinks this is obviously the first big battle in a long war to take back liberty.
What will the dims do now? Get ready!
From a friend who happens to be a dim staffer:
“What will happen from here:
1. House will pass the Senate bill unchanged under agreement to fix later.
2. POTUS will sign for the SOTU
-couple weeks pass-
3. House will draw up and pass further health provisions that only affect the budget, could even be the public option. The least controversial part of the bill didnt affect the budget anyways (pre-existing conditions).
4. Senate will pass with 53ish votes
5. Far left gets a far better bill than they ever imagined.
So basically, congrats on the win tonight. It has radically changed what the final health legislation will look like. Oh, and thanks the Bush Jr. for using reconciliation on needless tax cuts to set the precedent for this.”
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/01/19/us/politics/massachusetts-election-map.html
Very odd. Cambridge was showing 3% of vote in with 1500 votes cast, 88% for Coakley. People’s Republic of Cambridge, indeed.
What I like is that my Yellow Dog Democrat sister-in-law’s hometown went 2-1 for Brown.
Cambridge is completely in. Went 85% for Coakley.
Maybe Cambridge will support an amendment to have vote weighted by IQ. 🙂
Well, I’ve said for a long time that the only way things are going to be fixed is with a revolution – either it will be political or military.
I still firmly believe that, I still think it will end with some bloodshed, but this (along with a few other things) gives some hope to the idea of a political fight.
Still can’t say I’m optimistic, but at least I’m not that pessimist now. Lets see how Brown does too – I also recall the Contract with America thinking the same thing and being … disappointed. At least, as then, I can still say that there are enough people out there that think the correct way to win when someone runs on that platform.
My old home of Milton fell 90 votes short for Brown. My neighbors in Edgartown were not as looney as usual. West Tisbury and Chilmark are out to lunch as usual. Lincoln, Concord, Brookline, and Newton: all hopeless.
I hear that Needham, MA shoots fireworks
Even in this triumphant moment I’m anxious about what’s next. Will Brown disappoint us and sell out like Nelson did? Will the Dums still somehow be able to force this mess through? Just what can they do to try and discredit this moment from us?
Dems are going to act like wounded and trapped animals until November. This is going to get ugly.
Should make for good theater on MSNBC. Looking forward to it.
Well, I’ll admit it: I didn’t think it was possible for a Republican to win that seat. I still didn’t believe it several days ago. I’ve spent too many years living in Massachusetts. At the very least, I figured that the Democrats would get it within a percent or two, and then they’d steal it.
I’m very happy to report that I was totally wrong.
Good for Massachusetts, and good for the country.
This election was a perfect storm for Democrats:
1. Their candidate sucked.
2. They have total control of the state, but their policies suck.
3. Their party has total control of the federal government, but their national agenda sucks.
The big message in this election is simply this: the politicians need to listen to the people.
Unlike Senator Kennedy, Coakley didn’t hit the streets campaigning one-on-one and listening to the people. Her opponent did.
The Democrats have run Massachusetts for decades. The only time the voters of Massachusetts ever vote for Republicans is when the Democrats threaten to totally wreck the state, and the voters put in a Republican governor just to stop the insanity. Well, things are going crazy again. Massachusetts has had a series of scandals hit the state house with Democratic leaders getting arrested, and the state is suffering under a thoroughly incompetent Democratic governor who appears to be in over his head and totally out of touch.
And then there are the Democrats in Washington. People all over the country have given their time to try to talk to their representatives, and people like Representative Barney Frank have told them to shut up and go home. The Democrats have proposed an agenda that most Americans reject, but the consensus among Democratic leaders is that they have the necessary votes, so that don’t care what the voters think.
Good working people in Massachusetts can see that things are wrong, they are asking questions, and they are being ignored. Today, they said, “Enough!”
The town where I used to live in Western Massachusetts went roughly 3 to 1 for Coakley. That doesn’t surprise me a bit. At least they are not representative of the rest of the state!
I am waiting for the first essay (here, perhaps?) on what it means for Obama to have laid what was left of his political capital on the line by jumping into the race at the last minute and making it All About Him — and to have lost so decisively.
I just watched Brown. He has class. The contrast with the Chicago gang couldn’t be greater. CNN reported that Jim Webb wants the senate to postpone the health care debate until Bown is seated. Maybe the lesson is that breaking bones is no longer “in” in DC.
Brown isn’t the solution to everything. There is no solution to everything.
But by God we’ve stopped this Obama bastard cold. You watch.
I called Obama a lame duck and neo called him a blame duck.
Next!
Obama’s a lame blame duck, huxley.
Brown’s speech shows what a natural he is. He exudes strength, sincerity, intelligence, good humor, and is also at the same time very much a regular guy (except with model good looks).
Can’t believe the Republican Party got so lucky. Note, though, that in his speech he was careful to mention neither party by name. That’s quite a trick in an acceptance speech.
Smart man, with good political instincts.
If the Dems force their healthcare bill through now they will forever be painted with it. It is no longer like sausage being made it is like a huge rotten, steaming pile of offal, not even good enough for cheap sausage. Anyone who votes, or who has voted, for it will carry the stench for the rest of his (hopefully short) political career. We must make sure that they do.
More information on the fraud courtesy of Hot Air, which linked to the Kansas City Star. Mass. secretary of state dismissed vote problems..
The location of these complaints also casts doubt upon the claims;Boston and Cambridge respectively went 69% and 84% for Coakley. This does not pass the sniff test. If you are going to commit some sort of electoral fraud, you are going to do it in your stronghold, not in your opponent’s stronghold. If the Democrats wre to committ electoral fraud in Illinois, they would do it in their stronghold of Chicago. They wouldn’t do it in a downstate rural red-voting county.
Look to watch Snowe in the days ahead. I predict real pressure will bear on her or some other wishy washy Republican like Grahemnesty to switch their vote.
This is just the tip of the iceberg. By November it will be a political Tsunami of rejection by the American public of truly biblical proportions.
The Democrats are caught between the proverbial ‘rock and a hard place’. They can’t advance legislation that both offers political ‘cover’ for what blue dog Democrats now know they need and still retain the support of the radicals within their own party.
Those radical democrats are in the majority and are philosophically opposed to legislation that blue dog democrats, independents and RINO’s would support.
Which means that they won’t be able to pass ‘jack’ over the next 9 months. Which means they won’t/can’t do anything to make things economically better. in fact, what they’ve already done ensures things will get worse. And the longer things stay economically bad, the fewer supporters they will retain. Approval numbers are nowhere near as low as they are going to go.
It’s already started, Jon Stewart is ridiculing the Democrat’s leadership.
The DailyKos and the Huffington post are going to eviscerate the Democrat’s leadership over this and demand they do something, something radical of course because they fundamentally misunderstand the American public. How can they not? They hate all America stands for and have nothing but contempt for the American people. But there’s nothing they can do. They’ve made their bed and now they have to lie in it.
‘Hope and Change’ is over.
There will be NO leftist “fundamental transformation” of America. They just can’t admit it yet but the fear of that truth was in their eyes tonight.
The Boston Globe is in deep denial. It’s 12:22 a.m. on January 20 and if you had to rely on its online front page for news, you wouldn’t know that the election has ended — much less who won.