Posted on 01/19/2010 5:11:59 PM PST by icwhatudo
Rasmussen Reports has conducted an Election Night survey of 1,000 voters in the Massachusetts special election for U.S. Senate. Data will be released on this page throughout the evening.
Polls closed in Massachusetts at 8:00 p.m. Eastern in the race between Democrat Martha Coakley and Republican Scott Brown.
Preliminary results include:
* Among those who decided how they would vote in the past few days, Coakley has a slight edge, 47% to 41%.
* Coakley also has a big advantage among those who made up their mind more than a month ago.
* Seventy-six percent (76%) of voters for Brown said they were voting for him rather than against Coakley.
* Sixty-six percent (66%) of Coakley voters said they were voting for her rather than against Brown.
* 22% of Democrats voted for Brown. That is generally consistent with pre-election polling.
More data will be released soon.
Dems will steal it, Rass is just covering for that...
bump for later reference
It depends on where the votes are coming from, not percentages on raw votes. 22% of democratic votes tells me nothing if I don't know the percentage of democtratic turn out. Same thing for the republicans.
These stats tell us nothing. He needs to give up the goods.
Agreed. Most voters made up their minds before this past weekend. The 22% of Dem voters for Brown is the important number. It goes along with the polls going in.
Coakley is ostensibly the incumbant in the race... Incumbants below 50 pct tend to lose
51 brown 48 cokeheaed as per Oreilly just now
Fox just announced 7% of vote counted with Brown ahead 51% to 48%.
There counting Boston first, IMO. Make it look closer than it is.
THANK YOU for posting that! Folks, please take a deep breath. It's going to be a bit before a winner is called.
He totally caved when the rats hurt his little feelers a few weeks ago.
Who cares what he says NOW when we'll know ourselves in a few hours? I guess he doesn't mind looking like a fool.
Exactly. Nobody knows where those totals are from.
Best chance we could have asked for. Just be patient and see what happens.
What we saw in Florida a few years ago was that a few highly populated democratic strongholds withheld reporting until they knew how many votes they needed to manufacture.
Great website to track the results:
http://www.boston.com/news/special/politics/2010/senate/results.html
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/files/elections/2010/by_county/MA_US_Senate_0119.html?SITE=AP&SECTION=POLITICS
All I know is... If Brown doesn’t win by at least 5 points - the rats will scurry up what they need to steal it.
Just like they always do.
“* 22% of Democrats voted for Brown. That is generally consistent with pre-election polling. “
If that holds, Brown wins easily. Brown probably needed around 10% of the Dem vote to ensure a win.
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These numbers tell us nothing. They are just a teaser for election night and post election analysis.
From Jim Geraghty at National Review:
“Obama Towns Are Flipping To Scott Brown. Early Night, Folks.
In 2008, Ashland, Massachusetts went for Obama over McCain, 5,039 votes to 3,181.
Tonight Brown won Ashland 54 percent to 45 percent - 3,467 for Brown while Coakley carried 2,897.
You can call it, folks.”
- see http://campaignspot.nationalreview.com/post/?q=YmJlNWE5MTYyYTNmNTRlYWJhNDVkN2U2MWMzODg0NTA=
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