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(Left-winger) Coakley takes early lead, (GOP) Brown wins (Mass Senate primary today)
Boston Globe ^ | December 8, 2009

Posted on 12/08/2009 5:47:28 PM PST by campaignPete R-CT

With the clock ticking down towards the close of the polls at 8 p.m., some communities reported low voter turnout in the special primary elections for US Senate.

People breezed past community centers, gymnasiums, town halls, and other polling places without a second thought, the majority paying no mind to the race to fill the office left vacant by the late Edward M. Kennedy. Four Democrats and two Republicans ....

(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: 111th; brown; coakley; kennedy; ma2009; masssenate; scottbrown; tedkennedy
open primary, polls closed at 8pm. DEM turnout expected 500,000 .... GOP: 150,000

Scott Brown wins, Coakley with big lead early.

1 posted on 12/08/2009 5:47:30 PM PST by campaignPete R-CT
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To: campaignPete R-CT

http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2009/12/polls_open_in_s.html
DEMS results:
http://www.boston.com/news/special/politics/2009/senate_primary/dem_primary_results.html


2 posted on 12/08/2009 5:48:31 PM PST by campaignPete R-CT ("pray without ceasing" - Paul of Tarsus)
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Coakley is a mush-mind. If the democrats wanted an honest man to be senator, they should have chosen Capuano.

I’m voting for Brown. Hope is loss is much, much closer than the liberals in this state expect.


3 posted on 12/08/2009 5:54:04 PM PST by cotton1706
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Republican Scott Brown on left, with your Newest Nightmare on the right.
4 posted on 12/08/2009 5:56:16 PM PST by campaignPete R-CT ("pray without ceasing" - Paul of Tarsus)
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Newest Nightmare indeed.


5 posted on 12/08/2009 6:01:23 PM PST by Galtoid ( .)
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Scroogie mASSachushits and the sewage rats they send to DC.


6 posted on 12/08/2009 6:04:59 PM PST by tflabo
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"People breezed past polling places without a second thought"

In Massachusetts, they don't give a second thought even when they go inside and vote.

7 posted on 12/08/2009 6:05:57 PM PST by Past Your Eyes (You don't have to be ignorant to be a Democrat...but if you are...so what?)
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with 48% reporting:

Coakley ... 143,048 47%
Capuano ... 83,582 28%
Pagliuca ... 38,408 13%
Khazei ..... 38,405 13%


8 posted on 12/08/2009 6:08:09 PM PST by campaignPete R-CT ("pray without ceasing" - Paul of Tarsus)
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AP has called the race for Coakley.

COAKLEY WINS PRIMARY.
general election is jan 19th.


9 posted on 12/08/2009 6:11:55 PM PST by campaignPete R-CT ("pray without ceasing" - Paul of Tarsus)
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To: campaignPete R-CT

I HAVE LEFT THIS THREAD TO GO OVER HERE:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2403381/posts?page=7


10 posted on 12/08/2009 6:25:01 PM PST by campaignPete R-CT ("pray without ceasing" - Paul of Tarsus)
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