Here is your live viewing thread for the Scott Brown, Martha Coakley Massachusetts Senate election vote count. Exit polls (whatever and whenever available) and winner declared here on election day, Tuesday January 19th, 2010, as the candidates stump furiously on the final day of a short campaign. Watch the returns with us on our participatory live blog session.
So much of this special election race has been written here and elsewhere. Scan our homepage for the bones of such punditry, from Brown’s sexy magazine centerfold to Coakley mistaking Curt Shilling for a Yankee fan. Now let’s get it on. We will learn today who won and what it mean for other races.
Quick Tuesday afternoon update: Brown headquarters reports the campaign is “cautiously optimistic” based on what they are seeing today. “High energy”. Still working phones. All other discussions and updates are in the live blog window below.
Winner: Right Pundits calls Scott Brown the winner. Time of call is 5:14pm PT / 8:14pm ET.
The MA election result will be talked up as a bellwether event in the history of the 2010 midterm election. Like a canary in a coal mine, we will know a lot about where the two parties stand after the MA winner is declared by our elections desk. Is this the end of Obama’s agenda in Washington? Was socialism too much for the American people to swallow or will he press on like an ideological warrior? What if Çoakley wins?
Voting booths in Massachusetts open at 7am eastern time and close at 8pm local time, barring the usual shenanigans by partisan judges to keep certain friendly polling locations open later. We will follow all the days’ news live so join us today, January 19th for the final resolution of an interesting senate race between Martha Coakley and Scott Brown.
See the recent polls showing late deciders apparently breaking for Scott Brown.
You may predict the winner all the way up until polls close at 8pm Tuesday.
We will be bringing you tidbits of the MA exit polls data in this thread as they are released. However, the National Election Pool is NOT conducing exit polling today in Massachusetts. Other outlets are doing them independently so we’ll bring you that data when available. [As a final update to this article, Rasmussen exit poll data, conducted by telephone interviews, was shared in our live-blog window. You can read more here.]
Eventually a winner in the Massachusetts senate election will be declared and you can expect Right Pundits to declare that winner first before all of the mainstream media outlets make a fuss. They will keep you hanging for commercial break after commercial break until their advertising expectations are met. Only after their corporate requirements are discharged will they tell you who won. We, on the other hand, will cut out all the B.S. with a purified heart.
Recent polls show Scott Brown ahead of Coakley. There is no other way to spin it despite the liberal Daily Kos poll showing the race as a tossup. All the excitement is in the Brown camp. All the grass roots hooplah is there. All the press buzz. Barack Obama’s odd speech making fun of American-made pickup trucks will apparently not stem a populist uprising in the original tea party state. You can find a link to the MA polls in our upper left sidebar.
MA has always been a patriotic state which champions itself looking out for the little guy. This election cycle the Democrat party has confused such populism with support for a distasteful agenda in Washington, forgetting that Massachusetts once voted for Ronald Reagan in a similar bout of patriotism. Mainstream Democrats may not yet understand that under Obama’s agenda, the public believes that little guy interests are perhaps not served by an extreme liberal agenda.
For whatever reasons Scott Brown is now leading Martha Coakley. The upset of the century may be in the making which is why we will turn with great interest to Massachusetts exit polls as they are revealed. We should know the winner early based on trends in that exit poll data.
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Massachusetts Election Results (Video)
January 19th, 2010 at 10:19 am
Eric, the Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae did not cause this crisis. Foreclosures alone could not bring down the financial system. Instead it was the way that the derivatives market, completely unregulated, allowed bad mortgages to be packaged and sold first as securities, then repackaged, resold, and finally to be packaged as insurance (supposedly a safe investment) and sold…then repackaged and resold. It was a house of cards. Without that, the foreclosures would have not created this havoc.
Moreover, both parties are to blame for underlying fundamental weaknesses in the economy. In 1980 the US started a massive increase in debt (going from 30% of GDP in 1980 to 60% of GDP in 1990), and shifted away from production to consumption. That created a “something for nothing” mentality where people thought it was easy to get rich (just invest and watch the money role in!) and producing stuff was seen as ‘beneath us.’ To move away from this huge imbalance will require a massive restructuring of the economy, neither party has the right answer now (neither embraces the reality of the pain coming).
Of course, I was just checking here to see if there were exit polls, but that bit about the housing crisis led me to respond.
January 19th, 2010 at 10:20 am
Ignatius Reilly,
Different from the source’s numbers, but not wildly so, and posted around the same time.
http://www.charlotteconservative.com/index.php/2010/01/brown-coakley-exit-polls/
January 19th, 2010 at 10:28 am
Thanks Ignatius. So, those numbers are from 3 not particularly large towns in MA. Places like Boston (and the numerous surrounding communities) as well as bigger cities with diverse populations like Lawrence, Lowell, Brockton, Attleboro, Worcester, and Springfield will be far more telling as those should be the Coakley strongholds.
January 19th, 2010 at 10:31 am
Attleboro, Worcester and Springfield are all Brown’s. The Boston ‘burbs are a vivid Red for Brown. Only Northampton is trending Coaks.
January 19th, 2010 at 10:32 am
Hey . .it’s snowing like crazy up here in the Sierras … Is it possible that George Bush is responsible?
January 19th, 2010 at 10:33 am
@Nell: Martha Coakley was a key figure in one of the worst rashes of prosecutorial misconduct, the Child Abuse craze of the late 80’s and early 90’s. She headed up one of the most egregious examples of this trend, the Amirault case:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704281204575003341640657862.html
January 19th, 2010 at 10:39 am
Three tours, I shoulda said no RELIABLE exit polls at this point. any fool can stand outside a school and ask 5 people “Who did you vote for?”
Let’s be a little more discriminating before we jump to conclusions.
January 19th, 2010 at 10:43 am
I’m another former MA resident. The concept seems to elude that someone has to pay for benefits–right now the’rich’ are targeted. Where is the defining line for rich etched in stone?
Here’s the trick: When has the government brought anything in under budget? How long will the ‘rich’ put up with it? You already see people moving, or establishing a second household in which they claim residence.
Texas is siphoning businesses because of its economic climate–we’re still growing, despite the down turn. And no state income tax is a big draw for individuals.
So, fewer ‘rich’, more benefits, more burden on the ‘not so rich.’
After putting up with the Boston commute, taxes, and butt-deep snow, it was time for my own ‘change.’
January 19th, 2010 at 10:43 am
Of course, Dems have been buying votes for years. The difference is: In Massachusetts, we have very few people who do not also pay taxes. People are beginning to realize that the cost is actually more than it is worth.
Obama Hellthchare will take away many of our rights.
State run healthcare was predicted several years ago by a Christian. The Lord warned him that if this takes place, doctors will begin to rape women during their MANDATORY health screenings. The women will be attacked if they report the doctors.
Does the gov ever play fair when they are sued?
January 19th, 2010 at 10:44 am
John Fund is reporting that no exit polling will be available since media outlets were caught off guard by competitiveness of the race and couldn’t put together the infrastructure in a week.
January 19th, 2010 at 10:48 am
Your vlogger Greta Perry is an idiot.
January 19th, 2010 at 11:01 am
http://www.charlotteconservative.com/index.php/2010/01/brown-coakley-exit-polls/
Early exit polls in the Gardner, Fitchburg and Peabody areas show Brown leading by 14, 17, and 15% points. While too early to call a lock similar continued results by 2 – 3pm should confirm the loss by Martha Coakley.
January 19th, 2010 at 11:14 am
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January 19th, 2010 at 11:41 am
As a Southern Republican, I never thought I’d see the day when the voters of Massachusetts saved the nation from dire peril.
With the election of Brown, today just might just that day.
Thank You, Massachusetts!
January 19th, 2010 at 11:56 am
Don’t put your eggs in the MA basket quite yet. The state is riddled with the weak, infirm and expecting (expecting a handout). Some of the dumbest live in that state. How do you think they got Devil Paytrick? Because their….brainy?
January 19th, 2010 at 12:02 pm
What’s going on here? I got a “brittany weight loss” pop under. Has this site been hacked or is that a sponsor?
January 19th, 2010 at 12:05 pm
Two fundamental problems with this article and the underlying concept:
1. The data reported is not election data but polling data, which is notoriously incorrect; and
2. The statement “MA has always been a patriotic state which champions itself looking out for the little guy. This election cycle the Democrat party has confused such populism with support for a distasteful agenda in Washington, forgetting that Massachusetts once voted for Ronald Reagan in a similar bout of patriotism.” Well, this implies that Ronald Reagan was for the “little guy” which couldn’t be further from the truth. And why would it be patriotic to vote for a Republican over a Democrat?
The nonsense that these people report what the media won’t because they’re patriotic and the media aren’t is simply self-serving hyperbole.
January 19th, 2010 at 12:11 pm
I like the guy accusing people from MA being stupid not knowing how to spell.
January 19th, 2010 at 12:12 pm
I still cannot forget how extremely bitter I am about all that occured under the Bush presidency. Apparently, many have already forgot. Once again, the left has allowed the right to bully it’s way back to relevance. The right would love to declare the Obama presidency a failure. They never wanted Obama to succeed but if a democrat would voice opposition towards Bush during his presidency, then they would be labeled “unpatriotic” by the same bunch of lying hypocrites that are bashing Obama. The Republicans are very good at lying and bullying.
WAKE UP DEMOCRATS!!!!!
January 19th, 2010 at 12:18 pm
New York,
You have it backwards. After all it’s the Dems that have the lapdog press. You should be bitter about being kept safe and it wasn’t the tax cuts that created the deficit it was out of control spending something else to be bitter about.
January 19th, 2010 at 12:18 pm
One thing is for sure: if Brown upsets Coakley, as it appears he will, NO ONE WILL BLAME THAT ON BUSH!
January 19th, 2010 at 12:22 pm
IF THIS BROWN GUY WINS..THIS MEANS THAT EVERYTHING SENATOR KENNEDY SPENT HIS LIFE WORKING TOWARD WAS MEANINGLESS. HOW IS IT POSSIBLE THE PEOPLE WOULD LET THE PARTY DOWN THAT HE BELIEVED IN AND THAT WHICH HAS NEVER LET THE STATE OF MASSECHUTSETTS DOWN. YOU GUYS SUCK IF YOU LET THIS HAPPENS
January 19th, 2010 at 12:24 pm
Guess what guys, tax cuts create deficits too when spending is not cut. Goes both ways.FYI- The press just loves a good story and the story of the moment and ratings is what they really care about. Another thing, how can the media still be labeled “liberal” when FOX News has is so HUGE????
January 19th, 2010 at 12:24 pm
Seems like the Mass voters have a chance to really think about what is best for
their state, but as usual look out the window to see what the weather is
and vote accordingly. Neither candidate will make any change in Washington, except to help gov’t grow larger and assume more control over our lives and pocketbooks. Right about the doctors being pissed at Socialized Medicine, they will be less interested than ever, when they are told where and what to practice.
January 19th, 2010 at 12:27 pm
Steve, you are probably one of those guys that would be somewhat happy to have an “I told you so” moment if there was a terrorist attack.
UNPATRIOTIC!!!