Wednesday, November 7, 2012
The count was delayed because precinct 3 had to be hand counted after the ballot machine jammed on Tuesday.
ELECTORS OF PRESIDENT AND VICE PRESIDENT Pct 1 1A Pct 2 Pct 3 Pct 4 Pct. 5 TOTAL BLANKS 0 1 5 4 5 7 22 JOHNSON and GRAY 5 6 13 17 18 13 72 OBAMA and BIDEN 877 292 1180 1189 1283 1205 6026 ROMNEY and RYAN 708 313 778 913 795 834 4341 STEIN and HONKALA 8 0 9 6 11 9 43 WRITE-INS/ALL OTHERS 3 1 2 1 6 4 17 Total 1601 613 1987 2130 2118 2072 10521 SENATOR IN CONGRESS Pct 1 1A Pct 2 Pct 3 Pct 4 Pct. 5 TOTAL BLANKS 4 2 6 10 5 5 32 SCOTT P. BROWN 70 Hayden Woods, Wrentham 823 354 928 1101 960 1014 5180 ELIZABETH A. WARREN 24 Linnaean St., Cambridge 772 256 1051 1018 1152 1052 5301 WRITE-INS/ALL OTHERS 2 1 2 1 1 1 8 Total 1601 613 1987 2130 2118 2072 10521 REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS -THIRD D Pct 1 …
Tuesday, November 6, 2012
President Obama defeated Republican Mitt Romney in the 2012 presidential election.
President Barack Obama and Vice-President Joe Biden were re-elected Tuesday night, defeating Republican challenger Mitt Romney and his vice-presidential running mate Rep. Paul Ryan. NBC News called the presidential election for Obama around 11:15 EST. The president sent a message on Twitter at 10:14 saying simply, "This happened because of you. Thank you." The Obama campaign won the most expensive presidential race ever, with both parties raising about $2.6 billion. The race was filled with negative campaigning on both sides, from President Obama attacking Romney’s business experience with Bain Capital to Romney lambasting Obama’s handling of the economy. The race tightened during the final months of the campaign, with gaffes and surges …
Dean Cavaretta called Jamie Eldridge at about 10 p.m. to congratulate him on his re-election to the Middlesex Worcester seat.
With more than half of all precincts reporting, Niki Tsongas has earned more than twice the votes of her challenger, Jon Golnik, to gain another two years in Washington.
Niki Tsongas represented the Massachusetts Fifth Congressional District for five years, and now she’ll get a chance to represent the Third. After Massachusetts lost a Congressional seat following the 2010 U.S. Census, Tsongas defeated challenger Jon Golnik (R-Carlisle) in the first election for the new Massachusetts Third District. Retaining much of the old district, Tsongas finds herself losing constituents in certain towns like Tewksbury and Wayland, but gaining a large swath of new towns in the Fitchburg area in an area that stretches from Marlborough to the Lawrence area. Likewise, the Golnik campaign also hoped that the change in the district’s borders could help change the dynamic from 2010, where Golnik lost to Tsongas by 12 points…
Ed Markey will maintain his seat in Congress.
Democrat U.S. Congressman Ed Markey will serve a 19th term in Washington. Markey led Republican challenger Tom Tierney 75 percent to 25 percent with 41 percent of precincts reporting, according to Boston.com, which had called the race by 9:45 p.m. Markey's seat has traditionally been for the 7th District of Massachusetts, but that changed with redistricting last year. Markey's new district is the 5th, and it added a sliver of Cambridge, previously represented by Michael Capuano, as well as the western towns of Southborough, Ashland, Holliston, Sherborn, and a large portion of Sudbury. Markey also lost the city of Everett. Despite the district changes, Markey faced little difficulty in this year's election. He received $457,200 in campaign …
A majority of voters in Massachusetts on Tuesday cast their ballot for Barack Obama, giving him the state's 11 Electoral votes.
Barack Obama won Massachusetts' 11 electoral votes on Tuesday, defeating Republican Mitt Romney. In the 2008 presidential election, the state voted for the Democratic candidate, and since the 1990s has voted for the overall winner of the presidential race 3 out of 5 times. Shortly after 8 p.m., the AP called Massachusetts for Obama, along with with six other east coast states and the District of Columbia. Romney and Obama did not campaign aggressively in Massachusetts. The state has typically been a Democratic stronghold in recent presidential elections. The economy was a key issue for many voters in the state, as was the Affordable Care Act, colloquially known as Obamacare. Romney cast his ballot this morning in his hometown of Belmont, …
What's it like inside one of America's most exclusive parties? Patch is there to find out.
Mitt Romney's back in Massachusetts and throwing a party tonight. Ever wonder what a presidential election night party is like? What do you wear? What's the food like? How excited do people get? Newton Patch Editor Melanie Graham is at the Boston Convention and Exposition Center for Romney's shin-dig and will tweet out all these details and more as the night goes on.
What's it like when the potential next leader of the free world votes in your town? Patch sent three editors to find out.
How do you start the most important day in your life? If you're Mitt Romney, you come back to your home town to vote. Belmont will witness one of the rarest sites in America: A presidential candidate voting on election day. Join Patch as we live tweet from inside and outside the Beech Street Center in Belmont. Editors will capture the scene with tweets, photos, video and more. From broadcast news trucks to local media to protesters to residents just looking to get to Dunks, the scene should provide a colorful start to election day. ___ Late Update, 10:27 a.m.: Check out Belmont Editor Franklin Tucker's photo gallery from inside the voting station. 9:23 a.m.: "Line to vote has disappeared at Romney's polling place in Belmont," tweeted @…
Updates on the 2012 elections here in Sudbury will be posted throughout the day. Connect with us on Twitter at #PatchElections and tell us what you see by tweeting @SudburyPatch and commenting on facebook.com/SudburyPatch.
11:53 P.M. Latest numbers from Sudbury (courtesy WHDH): U.S. House - District 3 1 precinct reporting [town-by-town] Updated on 11/06/12 at 11:50 pm Candidate Party Total Votes Percentage Niki Tsongas (winner) Dem 954 62% Jon Golnik GOP 591 38% State Senate - 3rd Middlesex 4 precincts reporting [town-by-town] Updated on 11/06/12 at 11:50 pm Candidate Party Total Votes Percentage Michael Barrett Dem 3,350 58% Sandi Martinez GOP 2,403 42% Question - 4-MxandWrcSenCorporationsPolitic (Ballot Issue) 1 precinct reporting [town-by-town] Updated on 11/06/12 at 11:50 pm Candidate Party Total Votes Percentage Yes 1,305 79% No 355 21% Question - 3 - Yes Medical Marijuana (Ballot Issue) 5 precincts reporting [town-by-town] Updated on 11/06/12 at 11…
How might the U.S. Senate race between Scott Brown and Elizabeth Warren affect the presidential race—and vice-versa? Find out what local politicos think, and check here late for election results. Connect with us on Twitter at #PatchElections.
Check back at your local Patch all day for live election updates. While Massachusetts is expected to go to Barack Obama over Mitt Romney in the race for President of the United States, influential Massachusetts political insiders have varying opinions on how the U.S. Senate race between Scott Brown and Elizabeth Warren will affect the presidential race, and vice versa. According to results from the Blue Commonwealth and Red Commonwealth surveys sent out last week and compiled today, Monday, 60 percent of the 23 local Republicans who responded think that the Brown-Warren race will result a modest increase in votes for Romney, while 40 percent of the 20 local Democrats who responded think the U.S. Senate race will increase Obama's total of …
siobhan hullinger
10:23 am on Thursday, November 8, 2012
Congrats to all the candidates for putting their names out there, to all the organizers spending countless hours to get the message out and to the winners who have alot of work to do to reach across aisles and get some real work done to get us back on a productive track. KUDOS especially to the Town Clerk, Rosemary Harvell and the Assistant Town Clerk, Leila Frank for all of their hard work, … more ›