Where to find out election returns?

[hauntmeister.livejournal.com]

The polls will be closing in about ten minutes.
Anybody got suggestions for good websites to keep track of the returns on?
I figure we should have results by about 11:00, but I don't think this will be big enough news for any of the nightly newscasts to report on it.

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[crs.livejournal.com]

Is this one of those situations where the new Mass Democratic Party by-laws that were recently voted in could come into play?

Re: election results

[cos]

Which by-laws, and in what way? *a bit lost...*

Re: election results

[crs.livejournal.com]

Wasn't there some really gross provision voted in in the chaos of the state convention that basically let the officers of the state party override the results of a primary election if they felt like it? Some sort of reaction to the Sciortino victory...

From a message I just dug up from last May:

"- The Vinnie Ciampa clause, allowing the party leadership to oppose an
unexpected winner like Carl in the general election."

Re: election results

[cos]

Oh, I see, you mean if Elizabeth Moroney decides to be a sore loser and run a write-in campaign as an independent against the Democratic nominee, and elected members of the Democratic Party decide to support her anyway, could they evade party penalties? Umm, perhaps. Ain't gonna happen. Moroney's not the sort of person to do that.

Re: election results

[crs.livejournal.com]

Coulda fooled me from the tone she took in some of her mailings...

That's very good to hear.

Re: election results

[cos]

She conceded, and came over to the Provost election night party afterward. I chatted with her briefly there (though not about whether she'd run as an independent, that thought didn't enter my mind).

Re: election results

[ron_newman]

Moroney won't run a sticker campaign. As everyone else has observed, she and Provost agree on almost all issues. Also, it would be suicidal after being beaten in the primary by a 23-13 margin. The only two sticker campaigns in my memory came after extremely close primary elections (Piro-Albano in 1984, Sciortino-Ciampa in 2004).

Re: election results

[ron_newman]

Not sure what you mean. The Mass. Democratic Party didn't officially get involved in either candidate's campaign.

Helen Corrigan, the head of the Somerville Democratic City Committee ,supported and contributed money to Moroney. However, to Corrigan's credit, she was eventually persuaded that holding an endorsement vote at the committee's holiday brunch was a bad idea. (Full disclosure: I'm a member of the City Committee. So are both of the candidates.)