Scott Brown Senate: Brown Coakley Race: Exit Polls Massachusetts Senate Race

Scott Brown Senate: Brown Coakley Race: Exit Polls Massachusetts Senate Race – Scott Brown could be even or even beating Martha Coakley is dumbfounding political operatives in both parties and exciting the political pundits. Just a month ago she was considered a shoe-in for what is being referred to egotistically in Democratic circles as the Ted Kennedy Seat.

Brown challenged that idea directly in the last Coakley – Brown debate by saying it is “not the Ted Kennedy seat. It is the People’s seat.” That great line was said softly so those who watch the video (below) are somewhat underwhelmed, but it sure makes a powerful newspaper headline that makes ScottBrown sound like Reagan.

Who won the Massachusetts Senate election will be known shortly, in fact it will be known on this website first. Right Pundits will carry the results live and we will be live-blogging on election day. We will have theMassachusetts exit polls as well.

Martha Coakley election-eve rally at a gym in a Framingham middle school was three-quarters empty; someone on the campaign had pulled a curtain across the midpoint of the gym, so that it wouldn’t look even worse. (This “packed house” photo of the event by the campaign nothwithstanding.) The candidate came onstage to the “Rocky” theme–an extraordinary choice, given that she at one point had been sitting on a 30-point lead in some polls.

What worries long-time Democrats in the state even more, they tell me, are the other omens they are seeing–not just an accelerating deterioration in the polls, but also yard signs for her opponent, state Senator Scott Brown, in neighborhoods where they had never seen even a stirring of life for the GOP.

THE OBAMA MACHINE — A Democratic official says the DNC’s Organizing for America, at least, is a winner today: “It’s clear, win or lose, OFA has flexed the muscle of the president’s grassroots army. One of the primary reasons the race is even close going into Election Day is the work OFA has done which has brought much of the base home and increased Democratic participation according to polls by double digits. The lesson here is that an engaged Organizing for America can help put a campaign in a position to win. Whether a particular campaign has an infrastructure, the talent and the candidate to put it over the top is another story.” From Saturday through last night, OFA vols across the country made 1.2 million calls intoMassachusetts on behalf of Coakley.