The image that was on the Boston Globe, including mouser over details
The results are in and Coakley eeks out a 50-49 win with two million voting. At least that’s what the Boston Globe said, and illustrated with the above election map, some eight hours before the polls closed.
Here’s how the The Boston Phoenix reports the story they broke:
Boston.com briefly put up this map of the final results of today’s election — some 8 hours before polls closed!
As you can see, over 2 million people voted, with Coakley eking out a 50-49 victory.
The map was fully interactive, so you could roll over and get town-by-town results — above we show Coakley taking Cohasset 56-43.
The Boston Globe took the map down shortly after they realized it was all over Twitter, but not before some screenshots were taken.
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Brown should hold up that newspaper with that headline when he win the election
The great thing about the Internet, other than college football on ESPN360, is that things like this are now caught and exposed.
I really think that if it had not been for the Internet that Gore would have “won” in 2000. I say that because the regular media would have had carte blanche to spin their lies, without any rebuttal.
Case in point being that piece of garbage Dan Rather and his phony documents.
The Boston Globe is doing this to set up for a recount, so ACORN & friends can come in & steal it late. They are trying to influence the outcome of the election, & should be called out for doing this. The actual vote totals won’t jive with the Globe’s numbers, but that won’t stop the left from trying.
Everything I am reading is favoring Brown to win. They are using Diebold machines in Massachusettes, though, so count on all kinds of problems. I just know that the Dems will have somebody hack those machines. They’ve got too much riding on this election, so I know they will be up to their old shenaigans.
If Brown looses, it will be more than tea thrown in Boston Harbor!
The Boston Globe (aka The New York Times) was clearly trying to influence undecided or last-minute voters by proclaiming Coakley an early winner. There are many bandwagon voters out there who would vote for Coakely if they knew she was a sure winner.
I’m glad somebody screen-capped their gaffe. I hope readers posted it all over the Globe’s comments sections today, lol.
DEWEY WINS SAYS IT ALL!!!!!!!