Massachusetts Primary Results Thread

[SamAdams76]

Just thought I'd start a thread to monitor the results of the Massachusetts primary. In particular, for the statewide races for Governor and Lt. Governor.

Mitt Romney is a shoo-in for the Republicans but the big question is whether the voters will choose Mitt's appointed running mate Kerry Murphy Healey or renegade Jim Rappaport. If Rappaport can pull it out, it will be a bittersweet ticket as Romney and Rappaport have been slugging it out for weeks now. Still, I voted for Rappaport because he has firmly pledged to not support any tax increase whatsoever, unlike Kerry Murphy Healey.

For the Socialists, we have Robert Reich waging a low-budget campaign against front runner Shannon O'Brien along with other candidates including Warren Tolman, Thomas Birmingham and Steve Grossman.

Should be an interesting night here in Massachusetts. I predict that Romney will win the governorship no matter who his Lt. Governor candidate ends up being.

[SamAdams76]

Lieutenant Governor - Republican
0 of 2,157 precincts - 0%
Kerry Murphy Healey 0 - 0%
Jim Rappaport 0 - 0%

Governor - Socialist
0 of 2,157 precincts - 0%
Warren E. Tolman 0 - 0%
Shannon P. O'Brien 0 - 0%
Thomas F. Birmingham 0 - 0%
Steven Grossman 0 - 0%
Robert B. Reich 0 - 0%
Town-by-town results

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Lieutenant Governor - Socialist
0 of 2,157 precincts - 0%
Lois G. Pines 0 - 0%
Christopher F. Gabrieli 0 - 0%
John P. Slattery 0 - 0%

[johniegrad]

Pretty close so far!!

[SamAdams76]

I like this layout better - think I'll stick with this format for this thread. Okay, I'll update this thread when some numbers actually come rolling in.

STATE PRIMARY RESULTS

GOVERNOR : SOCIALISTS 

Tom Birmingham	0 or 0%
Shannon O'Brien	0 or 0%
Robert Reich	0 or 0%
Warren Tolman	0 or 0%
0% of precincts reporting

LT. GOVERNOR : SOCIALISTS 

Chris Gabrieli	0 or 0%
Lois Pines	0 or 0%
John Slattery	0 or 0%
0% of precincts reporting

LT GOVERNOR : REPUBLICANS

Kerry Healey	0 or 0%
James Rappaport	0 or 0%
0% of precincts reporting

TREASURER :SOCIALISTS

Michael Cahill	0 or 0%
Tim Cahill	0 or 0%
Steve Murphy	0 or 0%
Jim Segel	0 or 0%
0% of precincts reporting

TREASURER : REPUBLICANS

Bruce Herzfelder	0 or 0%
Dan Grabauskas	0 or 0%
0% of precincts reporting

[lasereye]

What's going on in the Senate race? There's no Republican candidate opposing Kerry, right? Has the Libertarian candidate made himself known?

[OldFriend]

LOL last nite Reuters had already posted that Reich lost.

[SamAdams76]

The Republicans aren't fielding a candidate for the Senate this year against Kerry. Pretty pathetic. But Jack E. Robinson is staging a write-in campaign to get on the November ballot. If he can get 10,000 votes, he'll be on the ballot. I wrote him in, for what it's worth.

[SamAdams76]

Some very early numbers are in (12 precints of 2,157):

Lt. Governor - Republicans

HEALY - 853
RAPPAPORT - 610

[SamAdams76]

For the Socialists (12 precincts of 2,157)

GOVERNOR

Shannon P. O'Brien 1,645 - 36%
Thomas F. Birmingham 1,208 - 26%
Robert B. Reich 987 - 21%
Warren E. Tolman 755 - 16%

Steven Grossman 36 - 1%

LT GOVERNOR

Christopher F. Gabrieli 2,118 - 51%
Lois G. Pines 1,317 - 31%
John P. Slattery 746 - 18%

[SamAdams76]

Robinson is ALSO running for the senate. Yes, he is running in both campaigns. (This was just announced recently)

[operation clinton cleanup]

Robert B. Reich 987 - 21%

Bobby is standing tall in the early going!

[Torie]

O'Brian opened up a big lead in the polls. It will be interesting to see if they have any validity. Polls in primary elections are always a bit iffy. If there the slightest reason anyone here should care about the outcome of this race by the way?

[SamAdams76]

STATE PRIMARY RESULTS

GOVERNOR : SOCIALSTS 

Tom Birmingham	1,208 or 26%
Shannon O'Brien	1,645 or 36%
Robert Reich	987 or 21%
Warren Tolman	755 or 16%
1% of precincts reporting

LT. GOVERNOR : SOCIALISTS 

Chris Gabrieli	2,118 or 51%
Lois Pines	1317 or 31%
John Slattery	746 or 18
1% of precincts reporting

LT GOVERNOR : REPUBLICANS

Kerry Healey	853 or 58%
James Rappaport	610 or 42%
1% of precincts reporting

TREASURER :SOCIALISTS

Michael Cahill	474 or 24%
Tim Cahill	638 or 33%
Steve Murphy	481 or 25%
Jim Segel	360 or 18%
0% of precincts reporting

[The Mayor]

SOCIALISTS 0%

Wouldn't it be nice if it stayed that way?

I was born in Hopkinton and raised in Marlboro, glad I left!

[Jimmyclyde]

What a collection of losers,

O'Brien? Shes the front runner?....HAHAHAHAHA!!!

Birmingham? You're just plain scary. Maybe lose 50 pounds and stop talking about how good an athlete you were. You sucked then and you suck now.

Reich?...to easy. 90% of all the kids in the commonwealth are taller then you.

Tolman?.....Hairclub for men.

Grossman?.....the name says it all.

The Massachusetts socialist party is the biggest collection of loser, misfit, a** kissers on the planet!

None of them could work 25 hours a week, nevermind 40.

LOSERS

[SamAdams76]

STATE PRIMARY RESULTS

GOVERNOR : SOCIALISTS 

Tom Birmingham	3,651 or 23%
Shannon O'Brien	5,968 or 38%
Robert Reich	3,238 or 21%
Warren Tolman	2719 or 17%
2% of precincts reporting

LT. GOVERNOR : SOCIALISTS 

Chris Gabrieli	6,940 or 48%
Lois Pines	3,965 or 27%
John Slattery	3,554 or 25%
2% of precincts reporting

LT GOVERNOR : REPUBLICANS

Kerry Healey	3,390 or 64%
James Rappaport	1,939 or 36%
2% of precincts reporting

TREASURER :SOCIALISTS

Michael Cahill	2,258 or 30%
Tim Cahill	2,942 or 39%
Steve Murphy	1,087 or 14%
Jim Segel	1,442 or 42%
2% of precincts reporting

TREASURER : REPUBLICANS

Bruce Herzfelder	1,442 or 42%
Dan Grabauskas	1,955 or 58%
2% of precincts reporting

[Aquinasfan]

Romney is "pro-choice." I assume Healey is as well since, at least according to Rappaport's ads, she opposes the marriage amendment that prohibits homosexual "marriages." I blanked Romney and cast a vote for Rappaport. Hopefully the "silent majority" will speak.

I won't vote for Romney/Healey if that's the ticket.

[southernnorthcarolina]

Is there the slightest reason anyone here should care about the outcome of this race by the way?

I can think of one reason, anyway: the simple pleasure of seeing another Clinton insider get defeated, at the primary level, no less. First Reno, then Reich. Like cutting off the tentacles of an octopus, one at a time. In general election campaigns, Bowles trails in NC for a Senate seat, and Richardson leads in NM for the Governor's seat, but I'm not ready to give up on that one. Are there others? I've tried so hard to forget the Clinton cabinet, maybe a race by one of them has slipped my mind. God, what I wouldn't give to see Maddy Albright on the campaign trail!

Side issue: isn't that an uncommonly ugly (in the physical sense) group of people?

Good job on the Florida primary a week ago, Torie, by the way. You called the late and almost successful Reno rally; I had been convinced, with half the vote in, that it would be a rout.

[Jimmyclyde]

Thanks for the update.

Rappaport is taking a beating.

I guess Mitt and his eye candy are in.

Oh well.

It would have made for fun times if Rappaport had won.