The Swing State Project offers a very helpful map and chart of voting patterns across Mass., which even the most devout politicos have rarely had reason to study, as a Senate seat is never competitive. Check there for notes on how to read early returns Tuesday.
Pictures and video from a Scott Brown rally in Middleboro.
There are calls for volunteer lawyers for the Scott Brown campaign in case this thing is really close, and Dems go all Ed Schultz on it.
Voters are using Scott Brown’s “people’s seat” line in Mass. barber shops:
“Some of them haven’t read it, you know that,” added the barber — Killy himself, whose full name is Achilles Xerras. A lot of his customers, he said, “are going for Brown.”
Post-racial: The Boston mayor went to a black church this morning and said the whole election is only about people who want to destroy Obama.
Worcester Telegram & Gazette: Attacks on Brown “disingenuous” and have “no basis in reality.”
PPP on how the electorate is shaping up: “The electorate is becoming more Democratic. Last weekend we found it at Obama +16 and now we see it at Obama +20. So all the efforts to get the party base more engaged in the election are paying off. Balancing that out to some extent though is that we’re now seeing Brown win about 19% of the Obama vote, in comparison to 15% on our poll last week.”
This rhetoric from Brown is a great contrast with Coakley: “Apparently, you are having a rally tomorrow and I’m invited”
NYTs schadenfreude quote o’ the day: “But most ominously for Democrats contemplating the midterm elections, the battle here suggests an emerging dangerous dynamic: that Mr. Obama has energized Republican activists who think he has overstepped with health care and the economic stimulus, while demoralizing Democrats who think he has not lived up to his promise.”
And, this: Representative Phil Hare, Democrat of Illinois, agreed: “We have to get this behind us. We have to pivot to jobs.”
Update: A great, thorough round-up of the home stretch from Jules Crittenden.
