Following the Massachusetts Election Returns

A few good resources for following the Massachusetts election returns tonight (polls close at 8 pm) include:

*Swing State Project, which has a great rundown of which towns to watch and what it means.
*Blue Mass blog, which I presume will have good coverage.
*The Boston Globe.
*The Massachusetts Election Division.
*AP election returns.
*The New York Times.

Why should you care about an election in Massachusetts? Here's what is potentially at stake.



UPDATE 8:02 pm: Polls are closed, waiting for results. My prediction is that Brown wins by around 8 points. Obviously, I hope I'm wrong.

UPDATE 8:12 pm: Rasmussen Reports has election night polling information. "22% of Democrats voted for Brown. That is generally consistent with pre-election polling" and "Coakley also has a big advantage among those who made up their mind more than a month ago." On the other hand, "22% of Democrats voted for Brown." Not sure what to make of this exactly.

UPDATE 8:15 pm: 1% reporting, Brown 54.1%- Coakley 45.0%
UPDATE 8:22 pm: 5% reporting, Brown 52%- Coakley 47%
UPDATE 8:27 pm: 7% reporting, Brown 51%- Coakley 48%
UPDATE 8:31 pm: 8% reporting, Brown 52%- Coakley 47%
UPDATE 8:33 pm: 11% reporting, Brown 53%- Coakley 46%
UPDATE 8:36 pm: 13% reporting, Brown 53%- Coakley 46%
UPDATE 8:37 pm: 17% reporting, Brown 52%- Coakley 47%
UPDATE 8:41 pm: 21% reporting, Brown 53%- Coakley 46%
UPDATE 8:46 pm: 25% reporting, Brown 52%- Coakley 47%
UPDATE 8:49 pm: 29% reporting, Brown 52%- Coakley 47%
UPDATE 8:49 pm: 29% reporting, Brown 52%- Coakley 47%
UPDATE 8:51 pm: Dave Wasserman of the Cook Report tweets, "Cook Report does NOT officially call races, but if I were working for a network I would have enough #s to project: Brown Wins"
UPDATE 8:52 pm: 36% reporting, Brown 52%- Coakley 47%
UPDATE 8:53 pm: Larry Sabato tweets, "It is already obvious that Scott Brown will win the Senate seat in MA."
UPDATE 8:54 pm: 40% reporting, Brown 53%- Coakley 46%
UPDATE 8:57 pm: 45% reporting, Brown 52%- Coakley 47%
UPDATE 9:00 pm: 52% reporting, Brown 52%- Coakley 47%
UPDATE 9:03 pm: 57% reporting, Brown 53%- Coakley 46%
UPDATE 9:05 pm: 60% reporting, Brown 53%- Coakley 46%
UPDATE 9:09 pm: 63% reporting, Brown 53%- Coakley 46%
UPDATE 9:13 pm: 65% reporting, Brown 53%- Coakley 46%
UPDATE 9:15 pm: Boston Globe reports, "Coakley has conceded in a call to Scott Brown, according to a Brown aide." Ugh.
UPDATE 9:17 pm: 69% reporting, Brown 53%- Coakley 46%
UPDATE 9:21 pm: 71% reporting, Brown 53%- Coakley 46%
UPDATE 9:22 pm: AP calls it for Brown.
UPDATE 9:26 pm: 79% reporting, Brown 52%- Coakley 47%
UPDATE Wednesday morning: 100% reporting Brown 52%- Coakley 47%

#MASen: Local Phone Banks & New LCV Ad

Posted by The Green Miles

Phone banks for Senate candidate Martha Coakley (D-MA) are running all weekend in Arlington & DC. Find a local event (or plan your own) at My.BarackObama.com.

Meanwhile, the League of Conservation Voters has a new ad running, detailing Republican/Tea Party candidate Scott Brown's opposition to clean energy jobs & support for "Bush-Cheney energy policies:

A Clean Energy Champion for Senate: Martha Coakley

The Green Miles is in Boston for the weekend. Was just driving down the Southeast Expressway and spotted this new ad on a long-standing windmill. It's for Senate candidate Martha Coakley (D-MA). Here's an image from her primary campaign ad (since updated to Coakley 2010 for the January 19th general election):
Coakley has been endorsed by the Sierra Club & League of Conservation Voters. The ad is especially appropriate since Coakley is a vigorous supporter of wind power, including the Cape Wind project, opposed by wealthy landowners & dirty energy interests. The late Sen. Ted Kennedy was one of my political heroes, but his opposition to Cape Wind wasn't his finest moment.

Coakley's opponent, Scott Brown, doesn't have much going for him, other than his cozy relationship with the teabagging crowd. I'd slam him for having absolutely no plan to address our energy & environmental problems, but it's nothing personal -- Brown's website lists no specific plans at all for any issue. In fact, his "issues page" could be summed up by "whatever solution the Democrats propose, I'll try to stop them!"

Here's hoping Coakley cruises to victory on the January 19th!