Oh, my. Martha Coakley and her husband, Thomas F. O’Connor, Jr., got up bright and early this morning and went down to cast their ballots at their neighborhood polling place in Medford, Massachusetts.
As they entered, Coakley tried to shake hands with the police officer at the door. To say he was unenthusiastic would be an understatement.
Then her husband, a former cop, extended his hand, but the cop on duty not only missed the first attempt, but made no attempt at a second effort.
There’s something else Martha can’t shake – the sense that she’s going to lose.
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.
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.
Comrade Obama knows his socialist revolution is kaput if Martha Coakley loses the Massachusetts senate race. Obama admits it to a Massachusetts rally and Fox News’ Carl Camereon provides the analysis.
Comrade Obama knows his socialist revolution is kaput if Martha Coakley loses the Massachusetts senate race. Obama admits it to a Massachusetts rally and Fox News’ Carl Cameron provides the analysis.
Obama: We’ve got so much work left to do. And, as much progress as we’ve made, I can’t do it alone. I need leaders like Martha by my side so that we can kick it into high gear; so that we can finish what we’ve started.
Cameron: For what’s at stake. President Obama himself has now said that he needs this win because the country’s ability to move forward or back is at stake. A broad sweeping statement that essentially encompasses not only his health care agenda, his economic plans, as well as his green energy proposals. All of these things hinging on whether or not Martha Coakley is elected as a democrat, thus protecting the 60 vote majority.”
Who ever thought that the death of Teddy Kennedy would lead directly to the death of socialism in the United States?
Or perhaps we should say, this version of socialism. Because, unfortunately, socialism is like a vampire. You can kill it a thousand times over, but unless you drive a stake through it’s heart, it keeps coming back to life.
While the SEIU leadership is working overtime to help Democrat Martha Coakley win the Massachusetts Senate seat, its members are out on the street rallying for Republican Scott Brown.
Looks like the leadership of SIEU is, shall we say, out of step with its rank-and-file members.
While the leadership is working overtime to help Democrat Martha Coakley win the Massachusetts Senate seat, its members are out on the street rallying for Republican Scott Brown.
Union leaders and union members going in opposite directions? Seems more than vaguely reminiscent of the Reagan revolution.
The senatorial vote in Massachusetts Tuesday is going to be the miracle that unchains us from the tyranny of the Obama Administration and Pelosi-Reid congress.
The senatorial vote in Massachusetts Tuesday is going to be the miracle that unchains us from the tyranny of the Obama Administration and Pelosi-Reid congress.
If you live in Massachusetts, we better not hear you didn’t get out and vote for Scott Brown.
Can you imagine what would happen if Bill O’Reilly, Sean Hannity or Glenn Beck said they would stuff the ballot box to keep those bastard Democrats out of office? That’s exactly what round mound of sound Ed Schultz called for.
Can you imagine what would happen if Bill O’Reilly, Sean Hannity or Glenn Beck said they would stuff the ballot box to keep those bastard Democrats out of office?
That’s exactly what round mound of sound Ed Schultz called for.
Schultz: I tell you what, if I lived in Massachusetts, I’d try to vote ten times. I don’t know if they’d let me or not, but I’d try to. Yeah, that’s right, I’d cheat to keep these bastards out. I would. ‘Cause that’s exactly what they are.