By adamg on Tue., 11/4/2014 - 8:37 pm
The city as a whole went heavily Democratic in statewide races. In fact, all of the state's largest cities went for Coakley, if not all at the same 66-30 margin Boston gave her. But that wasn't enough to overcome Baker's wins across the suburbs and exurbs between 128 and I-91.
Carlo Basile beat Celeste Ribeiro Myers to retain his state rep's seat in East Boston.
Up on the North Shore, Seth Moulton won the 6th District congressional seat. State House News Service quotes him:
We can expand the Blue Line to Lynn.
Looks like Steve Wynn will get to build his casino in Everett.
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All my write in votes, ah sed
By FoghornLeghorn
Tue, 11/04/2014 - 9:58pm
All my write in votes, ah sed, all my write in votes were for Universal Hub!
Now ah suppose ah shudda written ol' Adam's name instead . Sorry 'bout that, son!
As Boston's results are
By anon
Tue, 11/04/2014 - 10:05pm
As Boston's results are coming in, it's amazing to watch the effects on the Gov. race.
I was amazing at how quickly
By 2
Tue, 11/04/2014 - 10:28pm
I was amazing at how quickly Baker fell off. He was sitting pretty in the 50s and now he's losing to Coakley by less than 1%.
Yogi Berra:
By b from Ros
Tue, 11/04/2014 - 10:58pm
"It aint over till its over..."
Tonight's winner
By Kaz
Wed, 11/05/2014 - 12:14am
Personal greed.
I think
By anon
Wed, 11/05/2014 - 6:39am
The result show (across the country) people are sick and tired of race batting, do nothing socialist/liberals. But ya, personal greed!
Bring on the illiterate,
By Scratchie
Wed, 11/05/2014 - 9:00am
Bring on the illiterate, ignorant conservatives!
As opposed to the educated liberals?
By relaxyapsycho
Wed, 11/05/2014 - 9:03am
I laughed during the Coakley rally. A very bright woman energizing the crowd declared "We've got to show that all of our door knocking was for naught!" and the crowd went wild.
Nice concession speech by Coakley... way to thank the people who helped make it close.
The result show (across the
By anon
Wed, 11/05/2014 - 2:13pm
Agree 100%. If this election was anything , it was a referendum on conservatives not liking to have it pointed out that their racist policies are racist.
US Senate back in American hands
By Scoob
Wed, 11/05/2014 - 10:41am
I can take or leave Baker, but it was so nice to see the US Senate back under the control of Americans again and sooooo satisfying to know that come January, that punk Harry Reid will be joining Pelosi and be without his gavel. My faith in the country's voters has somewhat been restored.
No it's not, because it never left
By adamg
Wed, 11/05/2014 - 3:23pm
You righties are so cute with your complete disregard of how America was designed to work and the liberties and ideals upon which the Founding Fathers built this country.
Just because you are so wrapped up in your hate and spite for everybody who is different than you does not make those people, sorry, us people, any less American than you. The people with whom you disagree have the same birthright as you, as distasteful as that may be (to both sides, no doubt; the difference being I would never accuse you of being un-American, no matter how wrongheaded and completely wrong you are).
Americans?
By Tired of Anecdata
Wed, 11/05/2014 - 3:56pm
So, where were all the previous senators from?
Hmmm?
IF you are too stupid to realize that the previous senate was AMERICANS too, you are too stupid to vote.
Ted Cruz is
By bulgingbuick
Wed, 11/05/2014 - 6:39pm
Canadian.
Everybody do the propaganda
By SwirlyGrrl
Wed, 11/05/2014 - 9:14pm
And sing along with idiot America
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ee_uujKuJMI[/youtube]
Looking at a map
By anon
Wed, 11/05/2014 - 12:29am
MA is a sea of mostly red, with a small blue spot where Boston/Cambridge,etc. is, and blue in extreme western MA where the colleges are.
Interesting to see Scott Brown also won southern NH counties on the border where many former MA residents live. Shaheen won northern and western rural areas.
Shaheen
By cybah
Wed, 11/05/2014 - 7:15am
I'm originally from rural NH, and Shaheen won because Brown didn't pay attention to those needs of those counties and flubbed when he was asked. Shaheen is a seasoned NH politician, so she knows all the local politicians and won their support. And that is what gave her the edge.
Scott focused his campaign on Manchester-Concord-Seacoast and obviously it worked. (but he still didnt win). He needed to pick up one or two of those rural counties for the win.
Scott has nice hair
By bulgingbuick
Wed, 11/05/2014 - 8:20am
a barn coat and a pickup. How he didn't win is a mystery.
Roadmaster , for a Republican
By kvn
Wed, 11/05/2014 - 8:57am
Roadmaster , for a Republican carpetbagger he came pretty close to defeating an entrenched home girl. That has to count for something.What exactly is the mindset of the people here , did the incumbent lose votes due to being contaminated by allegiance to Obama, or did Mr Brown you have lovely daughters enlighten some but not enough? For a guy that came out of the woodwork a few years ago , first beating Martha , another politically entrenched sweetheart of the rodeo home girl , and now coming close up there in NH ,he hasn't done too bad. What is the explanation for this phenomenon ?
Isn 't Shaheen, herself, a
By anon
Wed, 11/05/2014 - 9:50am
Isn 't Shaheen, herself, a carpetbagger?
1973
By cw in boston
Wed, 11/05/2014 - 10:54am
Shaheen moved to NH in 1973 and first ran for office in 1990. Not the timeframe of a carpetbagger by a long shot.
Maybe your definition
By Waquiot
Wed, 11/05/2014 - 11:35am
But to some people, you gotta be born there to be from there.
I would say it is a New England thing, but I'm visiting Savannah soon. On my first trip, I read the obit of someone whose family moved there from Charleston when she was an infant. She was not described as being from Savannah, and she was 90.
I'm getting partial to North
By kvn
Wed, 11/05/2014 - 12:29pm
I'm getting partial to North Carolina, heard good things.
Bring from there...
By polarbare
Wed, 11/05/2014 - 12:37pm
it's a great state, but send your kids to private school.
Boston
By anon
Wed, 11/05/2014 - 1:50pm
Isnt any different.
Except that it is.
By adamg
Wed, 11/05/2014 - 6:42pm
Except that it is.
That's racist.
By Biggie_Robs
Wed, 11/05/2014 - 10:23pm
That's racist.
Don't be ridiculous
By Stevil
Thu, 11/06/2014 - 9:30am
My nephews and niece all went to public school in a pretty ordinary NC town and are either gainfully employed in professional jobs (or will be upon graduation because they have offers already). May not be Massachusetts - but it's not inner Mongolia either.
Wake County has very good
By Scratchie
Thu, 11/06/2014 - 9:38am
Wake County has very good schools. Probably better than Suffolk County on average. The current Republican state administration is driving a lot of good teachers out of the state but historically, parts of NC have had (and still have) excellent schools.
No one said Shaheen was "from" NH
By cw in boston
Wed, 11/05/2014 - 4:58pm
There's a difference in being called a newcomer after living somewhere 80 years, and being a carpetbagger, isn't there?
Again, down South
By Waquiot
Wed, 11/05/2014 - 8:36pm
Where the phrase carpetbagger originated, they might have an issue with an 80 year old who was born in Newburyport and moved when they were young, just like little Scotty.
That said, Shaheen did have a good line in one of her ads sniping at Brown's recent move.
And hey, since we have to endure all of NH's ads every 2 years, aren't we all New Hampshirites?
Live free or die!
By Lmo
Wed, 11/05/2014 - 8:51pm
Live free or die!
He's been to Norwood ...
By SwirlyGrrl
Wed, 11/05/2014 - 5:10pm
He's been to Westwood
He crossed a state line for a senate seat.
He keeps his truck neat
For this repeat
That keeps him searching for a senate seat
And he's getting beat
Keeps him searching for a senate seat
Keeps him searching for a senate seat
Keeps him searching for a senate seat
And he's getting beat
Alas, no,,,,
By Michael Kerpan
Wed, 11/05/2014 - 5:13pm
... "heart of gold" to be found in this pol.
Hey Brownie
By Sock_Puppet
Thu, 11/06/2014 - 9:26am
Hey Brownie, you, Brownie, cursing at your luck
You're a discontented lawyer with a fake old pickup truck
I've no doubt you dream about the things you never do
But I wish someone had a talk to me like I wanna talk to you
Oh, I've been to Wrentham and Winnipesaukee and anywhere I could run
I took the hand of a think-tank man and had my statements spun
But I ran out of places and friendly faces cuz I lacked integrity
I've run three times on a pack of lies, but I've never run as me.
I fail to see the horror of the man
By Stevil
Thu, 11/06/2014 - 9:39am
He's run in three very difficult situations and won one. Seems like a pretty decent guy - far better than that lying, hypocritical, opportunist we have in DC now that beat him. Doesn't strike me as the brightest bulb on the block - I'll concede - but a decent person with very moderate views. Why all the hate? I mean if he were any further left, he'd be a Democrat.
Carpetbagger? Is that what you all called Hillary Clinton who went residence shopping for a friendly state that needed a senator after she left the White House (and full disclosure - if she were the D nominee for president right now I'd likely vote for her).
I don't get it - nice guy, good husband and father, moderate political views and not only do you not vote for him, but you hate on him. Something's wrong with you.
"Nice guy"? Is that what you
By Scratchie
Thu, 11/06/2014 - 9:53am
"Nice guy"? Is that what you called him when he sneered at Elizabeth Warren, calling her "Professor" as if it were a dirty word? Was he a "nice guy" when he encouraged his frat-boy followers to do that racist tomahawk chop, obsessing over a form that Warren filled out twenty years ago instead of talking about policy?
OMG a sneer
By Stevil
Thu, 11/06/2014 - 11:14am
Was it as condescending as the look Warren gave the reporter who asked if she had documentation proving her Indian ancestry? Warren responded Yes - we have pictures. The reporter, thinking she had the scoop of the campaign said "Great - can we see them?" Warren sneered and said "No, they're not for you?"
So you have documented evidence you're not the lying hypocrite 40% of the electorate thinks you are in the form of a picture and you won't show anyone? "They're not for you." Seriously?
One link -
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2012/11/03/elizabe...
The Blaze?
By Scratchie
Thu, 11/06/2014 - 11:24am
Thanks, I was just about to visit the john, and might need something to wipe with.
I have no idea what in Blazes the Blaze is
By Stevil
Thu, 11/06/2014 - 11:32am
Nor do I care because the video is from the TV station. don't like it - bingoogle it - you'll find more links and perhaps a longer clip of the video.
You lost me at "lying
By Scratchie
Thu, 11/06/2014 - 11:41am
You lost me at "lying hypocrite". She checked a box on a meaningless form twenty years ago. Get over it. She's under no obligation to prove anything to anyone.
Really
By Stevil
Thu, 11/06/2014 - 12:22pm
Self Proclaimed "Champion of the Downtrodden" - What exactly has she done for the downtrodden. I find it curious that she gets oodles of money from the hedgies and she hasn't introduced legislation to tax carried interest as regular income (hedge fund managers get taxed at lower capital gains rates for some bizarre reason - even those in the industry say it's ridiculous - but they'll take it if they can get it).
Going on 2 years - 25 pieces of legislation - including "resolutions" praising the Sox for winning the Series and condemning the Marathon bombings. Excluding those, she has all of ONE piece of legislation that has even passed the Senate. And how much of her legislation will now even see the light of day?
I have a terrible sense of smell - except for BS artists - and she reeks. It's about her - not us. If she's pulled the wool over your eyes, buy some shears.
The whole "checked a box" thing is not really a big deal to me - other than it's one more action in a pattern of behavior. Hey - it's worked for her so far.
The whole "checked a box"
By Scratchie
Thu, 11/06/2014 - 12:32pm
Obviously not, LOL.
First, and most evident in a pattern of behavior
By Stevil
Thu, 11/06/2014 - 12:56pm
If the last four candidates were on a list - I'd go with Gomez, Markey, Brown and Warren - in that order. She has four years left - my guess is that at the end of 6 years she has zero sponsored legislation to her credit. The left loves her, anyone right of center despises her. From what I hear, the middle left isn't all that fond of her either. You can love her all you want - she was marginal with the Dems in power - and now she is completely irrelevant - Markey is a classic politician, that's all - but the good side to that is he may actually be able to get something done for Mass.
I look forward to the MassGOP
By anon
Thu, 11/06/2014 - 11:47am
I look forward to the MassGOP continually trotting out Warren's ancestry as they continue their push to become even more irrelevant than they already are. I'd suggest they start focusing on issues people actually care about, but then again I don't care if they never win another seat.
Is that what you called him
By anon
Thu, 11/06/2014 - 11:50am
Scott Brown reminds me of the type of idiot I went to high school with (out in the deep Metro West hillbilly towns) who'd call you a "faggot" for actually finishing a book now and then.
Exactly. A "nice guy".
By Scratchie
Thu, 11/06/2014 - 12:04pm
Exactly. A "nice guy".
Hate?
By Sock_Puppet
Fri, 11/07/2014 - 7:31am
I don't think anybody hates Scottie B. Personally, I just find him ridiculous. He surrounds himself with scum, but I just think he's a garden variety goofball, nothing hateworthy. I'm sure he'd make a fine neighbor.
You all like to make a big deal about Warren checking a box on a form based on old family stories decades ago, but Scotty's lies about who he is were a huge part of his campaign. His schtick with driving around dressed up in a "regular guy" costume pretending to be something he isn't was ridiculous. Warren didn't drive around wearing a tear dress and moccasins, but Scotty wouldn't be seen posing without his designer barn jacket instead of the suit and tasseled loafers he was born to. Politics is his family business, he's a lawyer and politician like his dad and grandpa, and not a construction worker or landscaper, and if he were more frank about who he is and where he comes from he might have had a better chance with an educated electorate. You didn't see Charlie Baker putting on an act or a costume to pretend he's something else besides a hospital executive, and the state voted for him based on his accomplishments and not some fantasy. But, then again, he _has_ accomplishments.
Now Scottie has decided Massachusetts isn't his community after all, and I wish him luck elsewhere. I don't know if he's still going to pretend to live in New Hampshire after his loss there. I hope he finds a place he can make a contribution to his community, wherever he decides that is, though I doubt it. I expect he'll just go on wingnut welfare like Palin.
But she did sell her beamer....
By merlinmurph
Fri, 11/07/2014 - 8:22am
When Liz entered the political arena, she sold her BMW and grabbed a hybrid. That's pretty phony. At least Brown always had the pickup.
He needs to find another line of business, though.
Suit and tasseled loafers
By Stevil
Sat, 11/08/2014 - 4:47pm
Seriously? - don't know about his grandfather - but his dad was a city councilor from Newburyport- not exactly a suit and tasseled loafer upbringing. His parents divorced when he was a baby. This is not guy to the manor born - middle class at best and his own set of hardships growing up.
I don't vote for people just because I agree with them. Sometimes you have to vote for the other party because they can get the job done. For at least the next two years Warren will be marginalized and serves as an anchor for Mass. Hopefully Markey can pull his weight and hers as a more centrist figure or we will see very little flowing our way. And pray like hell a Republican doesn't take the White House in 2014 or we're really in over our heads.
What's the melody?
By Michael Kerpan
Thu, 11/06/2014 - 10:10am
???
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