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Swing Counties to watch in the Coakley/Brown Returns Tuesday Night
CNN.com Election 2002 ^ | 01/16/2010 | Me

Posted on 01/16/2010 5:13:16 PM PST by GOP_Resurrected

To get a sense of how Scott is performing, it's useful to know the margins in the last successful Republican race in Massachusetts. In this case, Romney in 2002, with his 50%-45% statewide win over Shannon O'Brien.

A little spreadsheet manipulation gives us a good clue to the swing counties. These are counties very close to the statewide average in terms of Romney's performance, between 45% and 55%. It makes sense that if these counties start coming in at these levels or better, we might be in for some wonderful news Tuesday night.

Ashburnham 55% Bedford 55% Beverly 55% Braintree 55% Carlisle 55% Holbrook 55% Leominster 55% Millbury 55% Rockland 55% Salisbury 55% Stoneham 55% Tolland 55% Webster 55% West Springfield 55% Woburn 55% Blandford 54% Gosnold 54% Needham 54% Norwood 54% Russell 54% Wayland 54% Westfield 54% Athol 53% Belmont 53% Chester 53% Dedham 53% Dighton 53% Eastham 53% Natick 53% Peabody 53% Swampscott 53% Warren 53% Weymouth 53% Acton 52% Clinton 52% Melrose 52% Newburyport 52% Orange 52% Southbridge 52% Stoughton 52% Wales 52% Falmouth 51% Framingham 51% Freetown 51% Granby 51% Harvard 51% Monson 51% Petersham 51% Templeton 51% Waltham 51% Wareham 51% Barre 50% Nantucket 50% Rockport 50% Winthrop 50% Edgartown 49% Fitchburg 49% Gloucester 49% Hardwick 49% Hull 49% Ludlow 49% Maynard 49% Milton 49% Nahant 49% Palmer 49% Concord 48% Gardner 48% Millville 48% Southampton 48% Whitman 48% Brockton 47% Lowell 47% Quincy 47% Revere 47% Sharon 47% South Hadley 47% Belchertown 46% Chesterfield 46% Huntington 46% Rowe 46% Swansea 46% Ware 46% Chicopee 45% Everett 45% Lynn 45% Medford 45% Otis 45% Salem 45% Taunton 45%

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: brown; coakley; counties; returns
Hope everyone finds it useful.
1 posted on 01/16/2010 5:13:18 PM PST by GOP_Resurrected
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To: GOP_Resurrected

those are cities and town, not counties...


2 posted on 01/16/2010 5:22:25 PM PST by GQuagmire ( Angry Scrubwoman: Martha Coakley)
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To: GQuagmire

CNN’s fault - their headline and their chart


3 posted on 01/16/2010 5:25:05 PM PST by NonValueAdded ("'Diversity' is one of those words designed to absolve you of the need to think." Mark Steyn)
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To: GOP_Resurrected

Well, the obamites and little acorns know where to send the charter busses full of undocumented voters now...


5 posted on 01/16/2010 5:25:51 PM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: GOP_Resurrected

These are towns rather than counties.


6 posted on 01/16/2010 6:22:17 PM PST by scrabblehack
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