- Are we well-served when the media, in the interest of being fair and balanced, present each candidate as having an equal chance of winning when the pre-election polls and the actual vote count showed that this race was over in September? And, that for the final, it's over now?
- At 8PM last night, I was driving home from the provinces and turned on the radio to try to find some election news. WBUR and WBZ had full-time coverage, but no data at the time.
- 'BUR went on for quite a while, giving equal perspective on each candidate's position and campaign, as though it was going to be a close race.
- Dan Rea on 'BZ, meanwhile, concentrated on the real story, that after such passion surrounding the death of Ted Kennedy, less than 20% of the electorate voted.
- Meanwhile, we're sending an additional 30,000 troops to Afghanistan, where voters have reportedly had their fingers cut off for the act of voting.
- NECN is reported to have said that Martha Coakley was rehearsing both an acceptance and a concession speech during the hour that they waited for the votes to be counted. Was her campaign that clueless that exit polling hadn't told her by 9AM that she was going to win big? Or that she should let people know that she was rehearsing both speeches?
- I have never, ever, ever had such an onslaught of robocalls as I've experienced with yesterday's Democratic special election primary. It's been on the order of two or three calls on behalf of each candidate each day. To their credit, it was impressive that each candidate has been able to array such a list of supporters and get the phone machines cranking out the calls.
- When the race started in the summer, it seemed as though Martha Coakley would walk away with it all, which she did. The other three were determined to make it a real election.
- Last month, some friends asked who we supported. The agreement among this group of Democrats was that all were pretty good and would represent us as we'd wish, but none inspired real passion. I, for example, wish that Barney Frank had run, bringing his intelligence, wit, and doggedness (not to mention how well he undermines the stereotype of what gay men are supposed to look like) to the election and to the Senate.
Here's what we have for late-night, early-morning news reports. Boston.com, aka The Boston Globe, has the most useful report on the front page:
The Telegram has a wire service story, but has a link to a great listing of the vote counts for each municipality in the region:
Meanwhile, WTAG doesn't even try:
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