Coverage From The Inside of The MA-05 Special Election

Hub Politics ^ | 10/16/07 | Rob Willington

[No Dog]

Tonight we could see a Republican elected to Congress from Massachusetts. Rob Willington, the executive director of the Massachusetts Republican Party is covering Election Day from the inside... Check it out and be the first to find out what's happening in this historic election!

[Gay State Conservative]

Tonight we could see a Republican elected to Congress from Massachusetts.

I wonder if Rob has determined just how many dead people and illegals will have voted before making this bold statement.

[Norman Bates]

MA-05 ping

[gidget7]

I was amazed to hear NOTHING about this on the evening news??? Nor was there much on NECN. Politics is very strange in MA.

Any updates or predictions?

[fieldmarshaldj]

Prediction: Tsongas - 55%, Og - 45%. I want to be proven wrong.

[gidget7]

I want you to be proven wrong too! I’ll bet you will gladly eat crow! ;)

Granted Ogonowski isn’t as conservative as I would like, but we in MA are beggars, are we not?

[fieldmarshaldj]

5th U.S. Congressional District Special Election
Massachusetts Fifth U.S. Congressional District

Candidate Votes Percent Winner

Kurt Hayes (Independent) 55 1%
Patrick Murphy (Independent) 78 2%
Jim Ogonowski (Republican) 1,913 38%
Kevin Thompson (Constitution Party) 7 0%
Nicola Tsongas (Democrat) 3,009 59%

Precincts Reporting - 6 out of 195 - 3%

[Clintonfatigued]

Way too early. Chances are, those are from the precincts with the most Rodents.

[fieldmarshaldj]

No idea. Just reporting the results.

[Galactic Overlord-In-Chief]

Jim now in the lead, but still tight, with 51% of the precincts to go:

Kurt Hayes (Independent) 483 1%
Patrick Murphy (Independent) 988 2%
Jim Ogonowski (Republican) 29,105 51%
Kevin Thompson (Constitution) 188 0%
Nicola Tsongas (Democrat) 26,454 46%

[darkangel82]

38% is about what a Republican can expect to get in MA, even in a five-way race, so no surprises there.

[fieldmarshaldj]

That’s a shocker. But that may be his best precincts in. We shall see.

[Galactic Overlord-In-Chief]

Hubpolitics.com has a later count with Jim leading 51%-49%. This is a nailbiter.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Check post #10. Og is in the lead.

[Galactic Overlord-In-Chief]

Per hubpolitics.com:

Jim Ogonowski:34,752 (51%)
Niki Tsongas: 33,984 (49%)
59% Precincts Reporting

[fieldmarshaldj]

*BUMP*

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

This feels like game 6 in 1986....

Hope Bruckner isn’t playing First tonight.

[Clintonfatigued]

I CAN’T BELIEVE THIS, BUT IT’S HAPPENING!!!

As of 8:45 p.m., with 96 of 195 precincts - 49 percent, the results were:

Jim Ogonowski, GOP 29,105 - 51 percent

Nicola Tsongas, Dem 26,454 - 46 percent

Patrick Murphy, Ind 988 - 2 percent

Kurt Hayes, Ind 483 - 1 percent

Kevin Thompson, CST 188 - 0 percent

http://www.eagletribune.com/breakingnews/local_story_289210038.html

[fieldmarshaldj]

Check post #15, more votes have been counted, and it has tightened up. Og leads by less than 1,000 votes.

[Clintonfatigued]

Depends on which areas haven’t been counted, and who gets out the vote better.

Do you remember when Ogonowski announced? Did anybody predict that it could be this close?