Patrick wins four more years, two of three ballot questions defeated, as were most Republicans in Massachusetts

By adamg on Tue, 11/02/2010 - 8:14pm

Patrick boston.com reports all statewide Democrats winning. Voters are eliminating the sales tax on liquor but keeping the statewide sales tax at 6.25% and retaining an anti-snob-zoning law.

City of Boston numbers - Patrick winning 68-25. Question 1 (liquor sales tax) losing 64-36, Question 2 (housing) losing 74-26, Question 3 (sales tax) losing 71-29. Mike Rush looks to be Marian Walsh's replacement in the Senate; Marty Walz keeps 8th Suffolk seat. New faces in the House: Carlos Henriquez (replaces Marie St. Fleur), Russell Holmes (Willie Mae Allen) and Ed Coppinger (Mike Rush).

Frank swamped Bielat, Keating beat Perry.

The Dorchester Reporter is tweeting Dorchester and Mattapan numbers - Patrick winning big.

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If prop 3 passes, then the

By J on Tue, 11/02/2010 - 8:52pm.

If prop 3 passes, then the state is doomed. DOOMED.

If prop 3 passes, I'm going

By anon on Tue, 11/02/2010 - 8:56pm.

If prop 3 passes, I'm going to buy a car when it goes to 3%....c'mon prop 3!

And use the car to leave the

By J on Tue, 11/02/2010 - 9:10pm.

And use the car to leave the state?

Now that Boston is coming in, the results look better

Did the ballot question numbers change already?

By Ron Newman on Tue, 11/02/2010 - 9:13pm.

Right now the page shows questions 2 and 3 losing by substantial margins. Also Bump with a slight lead over Connaughton.

I miss John Henning on WBZ.

By Sarah underpants on Tue, 11/02/2010 - 9:17pm.

I miss John Henning on WBZ. Jon Keller blows....

Scott Brown is cute but he is

By Sarah underpants on Tue, 11/02/2010 - 10:06pm.

Scott Brown is cute but he is going down too

Can some tell Coakley to not

By anon² on Tue, 11/02/2010 - 11:19pm.

Can some tell Coakley to not try to run again?...

Updated, thanks

By adamg on Tue, 11/02/2010 - 9:21pm.

Been a busy night here at Universal Hub News Central, so I've been a bit slow at times (Elections, Chuck Turner, Somerville shootout, shooting star, and just getting word a Mattapan house caught fire for the second time in two days, oh, and fretting over whether teen activist Bristol Palin will be booted from Dancing with the Stars, of course).

Boston just crushes Question 2

By adamg on Tue, 11/02/2010 - 9:34pm.

As I type, it's losing 73-27, even though the law it would have repealed doesn't affect Boston, since more than 10% of our housing stock is "affordable." So think of it as the reverse of the situation all those years ago when the rest of the state overturned rent control in Boston.

can someone calculate how

By pierce on Tue, 11/02/2010 - 9:46pm.

can someone calculate how much out of state money Congressman Frank brought in to the Massachusetts media industry? I don't imagine there will be layoffs there anytime soon......

Hey out-of-state demagogues! Take that!

By issacg on Tue, 11/02/2010 - 10:29pm.

That's part of the reason that I voted to re-elect Barnibus. While I could care less whether the msm folks get a bonus at the end of the year or even whether they get to keep their jobs, I dislike out-of-state demagogues pouring money into my district.

And I mean no disrespect to Mr. Bielat. I think that he ran a spirited campaign - I just wish that he had run it for another office (I would have happily voted for him over Coppinger for State Rep.).

TV commercials are horrific

By JohnAKeith on Tue, 11/02/2010 - 10:24pm.

Anyone who doesn't have a DVR: I have such sympathy for you. TV commercials are so baaad. I would shoot myself if I had to watch them every night like I had to during election coverage this evening.

WBZ has done an excellent job. They even have a guy on Skype from NH?? There's no other local station doing coverage, right? That's a damn shame. Channel 5 is a shadow of what it once was, isn't it?

Screw DVRs

By rsybuchanan on Tue, 11/02/2010 - 11:59pm.

I don't have cable or an antenna anymore. All Netflix instant streaming and Hulu. I don't miss the old days at all, not least because I don't have to endure the political madness.

Impressed with WBZ

By dirtywater77 on Wed, 11/03/2010 - 12:32am.

Yes, I think they were the only station doing local coverage tonight. (And they're the only station that still covers the entire Boston Marathon!)

But the Skype thing might have a been a stunt - at the end of the newscast, it said "Promotional consideration provided by Skype" - meaning that Skype paid them to mention the word "Skype" during the newscast.

The Only Tea Party in Massachusetts is the MV Kind

By issacg on Tue, 11/02/2010 - 10:47pm.

Well, it appears that I was right all along...the only Tea Party in Massachusetts is the Martha's Vineyard kind.

We keeps it real the old money way, People. Many of the voters who elected Senator Brown have now had a bit of time to look at him, and they have realized that there just isn't much there. A traditional Yankee Republican would have won in the 10th, and if Baker would have run as a traditional Yankee Republican instead of relying on the tea party's "had enough" mentality, he would have won big (it might have also helped if his body temperature was above 90F).

Advice to Republicans: send that faux-Republican crap back to the south and west and bring back your Lincoln Chafees, Jim Jeffords and Bill Welds or watch the likes of Governor Patrick continue to prevail.

Wow, bringing more people

By anon² on Tue, 11/02/2010 - 11:22pm.

Wow, bringing more people into your tent is good for electoral gains?

Who woulda thunk...

Amen

By John-W on Wed, 11/03/2010 - 10:27am.

Old school Republicans need to crawl back from the tomb and dust off the cobwebs. Not that I would vote for them necessarily, but at least I could respect them and the hope is that it would force the Democrats to trim the douchebags like Petrolati and actually be a party that cares about what it's doing and not just fulfilling Howie Carr's wet dream of hack anecdotes to fill his columns.

Any Cabot Lodge's left floating around?

Republican gains in Mass. state legislature

By Ron Newman on Wed, 11/03/2010 - 1:36pm.

You have to look hard in the Globe to find this story, but the Republicans actually made fairly impressive gains in the Massachusetts House of Representatives, going from 15 seats to 30.

Now that's 30 seats out of 160, but you gotta start somewhere.

Didn't they lose quite a few

By anon² on Wed, 11/03/2010 - 1:50pm.

Didn't they lose quite a few in 2008?

Mid-terms always tend to err in the GOP's favor due to the intensity and turnout of their voters over the rest of the population.

Whats up with the liquor tax

By cscott on Wed, 11/03/2010 - 12:18am.

Whats up with the liquor tax going down? Unless you're a liquor store owner near NH who really was worried about it? I cant say it ever impacted my decision to bring a 12 pack to party or anything. Between this and the no beer or wine in supermarkets thing I'm wondering about the power of the liquor lobby in our state.

WHY do you people keep putting this evil woman back in position?