Where to find out election returns?
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davis_squareThe 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.
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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election results
Date: 2006-01-11 02:04 am (UTC)In small campaigns like this, the campaigns always have the results before anyone else. I got the results sitting at the Provost election night party at Sauce on Highland. and texted it to the Wiffiti board at Someday right away :)
Re: election results
Date: 2006-01-11 02:30 am (UTC)Moroney, BTW, had raised several thousand more than Provost, and nearly all her funding came from outside of Somerville. I was wondering what outside forces were trying to exert themselves.
Re: election results
Date: 2006-01-11 03:25 am (UTC)It wasn't "close" by any stretch. Special elections are very different creatures from general elections (regular primaries are sort of in the middle). Hardly anyone votes, the majority of voters don't even know the election happened, and it's up to the campaigns to find their supporters and bug them often enough that they get to the polls on election day. Provost's campaign found and got to the polls about twice as many voters as Moroney's campaign, so I'd say that's really strong.
The population of a state rep district is about 40,000 people.
The turnout in this election was about 3700.
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Date: 2006-01-11 03:57 am (UTC)TheSomervilleNews.com -- but sometimes they're more concerned about being first than about being correct. (True about them in general, not just about election returns.)
Somerville City Cable channel 16 -- now displaying these results: Provost 2343, Moroney 1394 (plus 85 Republican write-ins)
City of Somerville Election Department page -- but they're not up yet
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Date: 2006-01-11 03:59 am (UTC)http://www.townonline.com/blogs/somerville/
Re: election results
Date: 2006-01-11 04:51 am (UTC)Re: election results
Date: 2006-01-11 04:55 am (UTC)Re: election results
Date: 2006-01-11 05:01 am (UTC)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.)
Re: election results
Date: 2006-01-11 05:06 am (UTC)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
Date: 2006-01-11 05:15 am (UTC)Re: election results
Date: 2006-01-11 05:17 am (UTC)That's very good to hear.
Re: election results
Date: 2006-01-11 05:19 am (UTC)Re: election results
Date: 2006-01-11 10:57 am (UTC)official results
Date: 2006-01-11 05:41 pm (UTC)Gotta wonder about the 6 Republicans who bothered to show up just so they could cast blank ballots ...