Barack Obama Wins Massachusetts
A majority of voters in Massachusetts on Tuesday cast their ballot for Barack Obama, giving him the state's 11 Electoral votes.
Barack Obama won Massachusetts' 11 electoral votes on Tuesday, defeating Republican Mitt Romney.
In the 2008 presidential election, the state voted for the Democratic candidate, and since the 1990s has voted for the overall winner of the presidential race 3 out of 5 times.
Shortly after 8 p.m., the AP called Massachusetts for Obama, along with with six other east coast states and the District of Columbia.
Romney and Obama did not campaign aggressively in Massachusetts. The state has typically been a Democratic stronghold in recent presidential elections.
The economy was a key issue for many voters in the state, as was the Affordable Care Act, colloquially known as Obamacare.
Romney cast his ballot this morning in his hometown of Belmont, and is holding his election night party at the Boston Convention and Exposition Center, where Patch is reporting live.
Dan
8:46 pm on Tuesday, November 6, 2012
Gee, what a surprise!!
stevieB
8:49 pm on Tuesday, November 6, 2012
Example why most of the country thinks we are a joke
Darren Major
8:51 pm on Tuesday, November 6, 2012
HARDLY - LEAVE IF YOU FEEL THAT WAY!
Reader99
6:10 pm on Thursday, November 8, 2012
Stevie you are right, we've lost electoral seats because people are moving. It's a shame.
Paul
8:50 pm on Tuesday, November 6, 2012
Now there is an astute observation.... Shows the culture of hard work and positive thinking toward a better life is dead for those who voted for accepting the "new normal" of low expectations. If Obama wins more of the same coming plus inflation. Don't whine you cool aide drinkers when your siruation gets twice as bad
Diana
8:58 pm on Tuesday, November 6, 2012
Daaaaaaamn, Paul won't even be able to afford Kool-Aid now. Gotta go with the off-brand.
Maggie Jackson
8:50 pm on Tuesday, November 6, 2012
Nice work, Ma!!
Darren Major
8:51 pm on Tuesday, November 6, 2012
THANK YOU MA - LETS TAKE IT TO 270!
ctownBOS
8:51 pm on Tuesday, November 6, 2012
No way!
Aron Levy
8:51 pm on Tuesday, November 6, 2012
How dare the people of Massachusetts agree with the Democratic Party! And the only people who think Massachusetts is a joke are Fox News watchers.
Jennifer
9:00 pm on Tuesday, November 6, 2012
Wahoo. Now for Warren!
Jeff Soriano
9:04 pm on Tuesday, November 6, 2012
...what a surprised...
Wind Dummy 25
9:15 pm on Tuesday, November 6, 2012
There is nothing more expensive, than a free lunch.
Independent Voice
9:18 pm on Tuesday, November 6, 2012
Can't blame the politicians...just the weak people that vote for them again, and again, and again.... At this rate we have forgotten history that socialism doesn't work. Running capitalism into the ground, we will soon have nothing left to prosper with. When the government is eventually so far in debt, even the EBT cards will have insufficient funds. Then what? When the koolaide is gone and the Messiah Obama had left, what new means will we manufacture to place the blame? Ourselves? That would be just too convenient.
Diana
9:20 pm on Tuesday, November 6, 2012
Why can none of you people spell Kool-Aid? Why do you profane this holy brand name? CAPITALISM!!!!
anon
9:18 pm on Tuesday, November 6, 2012
If Obama wins I fear for this country.
Also -- ask retirees how much less they're earning on their savings (and, thus paying less taxes!!!).
Don Rothenberg,D.M.D.
8:25 am on Wednesday, November 7, 2012
And this is President Obama's fault???
Mara
9:20 pm on Tuesday, November 6, 2012
Interesting how the Repubs call us "cool aide drinkers" (hey, I didn't mis-spell it, he did) when they are the ones who form a cult of religious fundamentalist teaparty-ers.
Darren Major
9:23 pm on Tuesday, November 6, 2012
Personal responsibility and conservatives never go together - big babies on every issue or claim to be victims - no matter what!
Diana
9:24 pm on Tuesday, November 6, 2012
They always seem to forget that the Kool-Aid drinkers aren't, as a rule, the winners. They're the die-ers. (Also, it was Flavor Aid at Jonestown, but I dread to see how they'd spell that.)
kate f
10:20 pm on Tuesday, November 6, 2012
You called it Mara!...and the Howie Carr's, Coulter's..the very, very loud and UNpleasant people among us ..
Aron Levy
9:24 pm on Tuesday, November 6, 2012
Nice observation, Mara.
Joseph G. Paquette
9:28 pm on Tuesday, November 6, 2012
Does anyone believe the quality of life we enjoy here in Massachusetts is not a direct result of both strong Democratic and union struggles of the last 75 years?
Diana
9:37 pm on Tuesday, November 6, 2012
That and Massachusetts' commitment to education. But hey, you can't make everyone avail themselves of education, and so you get people whose entire belief systems are magical; and yes, they genuinely believe that they'd be rich if the government weren't holding them down.
Darren Major
9:39 pm on Tuesday, November 6, 2012
Only the wingnuts see MA as a joke - most of the country strongly disagrees!
Diana
9:41 pm on Tuesday, November 6, 2012
As an addendum to my previous post, I'd add this sign seen in Malden.
http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=6yp24m&s=6
Never occurred to that guy for a moment that he maybe was a crappy businessman. For what it's worth, I never knew there was ever a business there prior to seeing the sign.
Slim Tebow
9:51 pm on Tuesday, November 6, 2012
hey Diana, looks like that business owner is a strong believer in personal responsibility...Ha
Judy
9:31 pm on Tuesday, November 6, 2012
Mitt Romney couldn't even win his home state or his vacation home state, maybe us Massachusetts folks know something.
Darren Major
9:31 pm on Tuesday, November 6, 2012
Joe Kennedy wins!
Darren Major
9:33 pm on Tuesday, November 6, 2012
oops early sorry
Darren Major
9:43 pm on Tuesday, November 6, 2012
Senator WARRRREEEENNNN! - GREAT NEWS!
Darren Major
10:02 pm on Tuesday, November 6, 2012
Kennedy wins NOW! - SWEEP !
Dan Fredonia
9:45 pm on Tuesday, November 6, 2012
Obama wins Michigan!!! Mitt's birth and one of his home state....OUCH! That's a slap in the face that some would call WORSE than Mass.
Darren Major
10:09 pm on Tuesday, November 6, 2012
Our long Mitt-mare hopefully will end soon!
Linda Worthy
9:46 pm on Tuesday, November 6, 2012
NBC News has called Massachusetts for Liz Warren. WOO HOO!!!
NBC has called Indiana for Donnelly -- the Rapepublican Mourdock has been busted.
John Sullivan
9:47 pm on Tuesday, November 6, 2012
PBS just called the race for Warren!!!!
ss
9:48 pm on Tuesday, November 6, 2012
it's all about the union and who they tell you to vote for
Ben Jackson
9:54 pm on Tuesday, November 6, 2012
Scott Brown FIRED! Woo. It's a good night, friends.
Diana
9:55 pm on Tuesday, November 6, 2012
Cheers! Let's hope for more good news to come.
Mike G.
9:54 pm on Tuesday, November 6, 2012
Awww I'm gonna miss Scotty's truck.
Diana
9:57 pm on Tuesday, November 6, 2012
It'll be for sale soon.
Dan Fredonia
9:55 pm on Tuesday, November 6, 2012
Tell me about it, Ben!!! The experiment is over.
JT
9:56 pm on Tuesday, November 6, 2012
Time for Scott Yellow the coward to go back to being an empty suit nobody.
Darren Major
9:58 pm on Tuesday, November 6, 2012
If Kennedy wins - its time to do a Nelson Muntz!
Darren Major
9:58 pm on Tuesday, November 6, 2012
or he can model again!
Gatsby
10:01 pm on Tuesday, November 6, 2012
Whew, and I thought Mitt would win. I guess Oblamer just needs a few more years. We'll just stay tuned for that, hardy, har, har ...
Diana
10:06 pm on Tuesday, November 6, 2012
Honest question, something I've been wondering for months. Do people not realize that bastardizing candidates' names just makes them sound like morons who couldn't form (or even recognize) a substantive argument if their lives depended on it? Every time I see that (from either side), I wonder exactly how drool-soaked that person's keyboard is.
Mike G.
10:21 pm on Tuesday, November 6, 2012
Even better is when they say "Barack HUSSEIN Obama!!!! HIS MIDDLE NAME SOUNDS SO FUNNY LOLOLLLL"
Mary Joe
10:01 pm on Tuesday, November 6, 2012
What an exciting race
Dan Fredonia
10:04 pm on Tuesday, November 6, 2012
You sound excited....'-)
Linda Worthy
10:09 pm on Tuesday, November 6, 2012
NBC just called McCaskill the winner in Missouri!!! The Rapepublican Aiken bites the dust.
Darren Major
10:11 pm on Tuesday, November 6, 2012
300 vote gap in FL - if FL holds for the President - early bedtime!
Independent Voice
10:48 pm on Tuesday, November 6, 2012
Hey Mara- look it up...it is Kool Aid. And I think we overdosed on it. Makes me want to vomit that Warren had won. It teaches me that lies and distortion win the trust of the masses. This is like a rerun of a Simpsons episode...commentary to the masses following each other like sheep blindly off a cliff. Say baaaaaaahhhhhh!
Darren Major
10:53 pm on Tuesday, November 6, 2012
bottle of WHINE?
Dan Fredonia
10:57 pm on Tuesday, November 6, 2012
No kidding about the whine! Angry much???? Time to cut down on the Keystones bud!
Diana
11:02 pm on Tuesday, November 6, 2012
Um... Mara isn't the one who needed to look up Kool-Aid. Your posts are RIGHT THERE, dude. Say duuuuuuuuuuhhhhh!
david mokal
6:58 pm on Friday, November 9, 2012
Well Geeezes don't hold it in go out in the back yard and blow lunch.
Independent Voice
11:01 pm on Tuesday, November 6, 2012
Yes... Capitalism. This is a vote on what is becoming a nanny state. At the DNC the word "profit" was used as target for the new evil. It is clearly unblelievable how little the staunch democrats understand how the economy works. This Warren victory affirms our electorate's support for the radical socialist Occupy movement. This is a war on capitalism. And hey I didn't make this up, didn't you watch the last Micael Moore movie? I SERIOUSLY can't believe this.
Independent Voice
11:05 pm on Tuesday, November 6, 2012
Darren and Dan, Maybe you've been drinking few too many to be able to consider the serious issues at stake. You patsy support for a criminal like Tierney, a liar like Warren, and a self proclaimed false messiah Obama tells it all for me.
Diana
11:21 pm on Tuesday, November 6, 2012
Perhaps you can point me to where President (live with it) Obama declared himself the Messiah?
In the meantime, do help yourself to some Cocoa Puffs(TM).
M C Stringfellow
8:58 pm on Thursday, November 8, 2012
He didn't. It was the news media and they played it for all it was worth. However, Obama never asked them to stop. EGO EGO EGO. He will never take responsibility for any of the last four years . Another four coming up. Wonder if he will get a free pass during his next watch.
JT
11:10 pm on Tuesday, November 6, 2012
The Republican Party, aka the wacko idiot party, going down in flames.. What a surprise.
Dan Fredonia
11:12 pm on Tuesday, November 6, 2012
Yep....that's intelligent...."No, YOU are drinking it!!" See you on the playground, "Independent" Voice....yeah, right FAR from it.
Linda Worthy
11:18 pm on Tuesday, November 6, 2012
NBC News has called OHIO for Obama!! RE-ELECTED!!!
Earnhardt
11:24 pm on Tuesday, November 6, 2012
To all the Democrats out there, Congratulations, It' not the outcome I wanted,, but America has spoken. Lets hope it all turns around now. It's been fun going around with all of you every day. Once again, Congratulations. Peace.
Darren Major
11:30 pm on Tuesday, November 6, 2012
VERY CLASSY
Dan Fredonia
11:26 pm on Tuesday, November 6, 2012
Wow Earnhardt....good show....a show of class..thank you.
Darren Major
11:29 pm on Tuesday, November 6, 2012
HA! HA!
Bob Rauseo
11:30 pm on Tuesday, November 6, 2012
Congratulations President Obama.
Linda Worthy
11:31 pm on Tuesday, November 6, 2012
Thanks, Earnhardt.
I join you in the hope that the gridlock breaks and Congress works for us again.
Darren Major
11:32 pm on Tuesday, November 6, 2012
This has been an amazing night!
JohnnyMass
11:52 pm on Tuesday, November 6, 2012
Hey, Dem's-hope you're still gloating when the deficit is too deep to ever recover from, Social Security is bankrupt, and Red China controls what is left of the economy. Democrats will continue to enable the useless parasites who wouldn't work even if there were jobs!
Bizworldusa Gcm
11:54 pm on Tuesday, November 6, 2012
Romney and Obama did not campaign aggressively in Massachusetts. The state has typically been a Democratic stronghold in recent presidential elections.
Regards,
<a href="http://www.bizworldusa.com"> Bizworldusa </a>
Independent Voice
12:01 am on Wednesday, November 7, 2012
Why does the electorate in the commonwealth vote for the party line? I was a Dem for years until I realized the sheer pandering involved. I'm not partisan to a party nor am I registered R OR D. I look at the individual. Apparently this is not a common theme. It's ok... I know that history will speak for itself. In the meantime I'm hiding my money under a mattress.
Darren Major
12:24 am on Wednesday, November 7, 2012
Leave - this state is doing fine
mushroom
10:23 pm on Wednesday, November 7, 2012
can't fix stupid, or stop the sheeple from running off the cliff. let's just hope for change. This country is so dangerously divided / bipartisan. An intended success of the current administration. Divided we fall, a great leader will bring us together, not drive us farther apart. Let's see what the next 4 years will produce.
Dave Gray
12:13 am on Wednesday, November 7, 2012
I can't say that I'm thrilled that Obama won. I can say I'm relieved Romney didn't. That's pretty sad, so here's my message to both Dems and Repubs - stop screwing around, get your act together, and fix this mess, or I swear to God, we'll kick you ALL out. This crap has gone on long enough.
mplo
9:18 am on Wednesday, November 7, 2012
Well said, Dave Gray! Bravo!
Reader99
12:15 am on Wednesday, November 7, 2012
If you're not a democrat you get elected into office in this state. I think I am done with bothering to vote.
Diana
12:18 am on Wednesday, November 7, 2012
I think that's wise.
Darren Major
12:23 am on Wednesday, November 7, 2012
yeah! stop!
Linda Worthy
12:24 am on Wednesday, November 7, 2012
Dave, I'm not as thrilled that Obama won as I was 4 yrs ago. I am very, very relieved that Romney, and therefore the right-wing of the Republican Party, lost. I agree with your message to both parties --stop screwing around and fix this mess.
Slim Tebow
12:57 am on Wednesday, November 7, 2012
buh bye mitt, e wont miss you
dan lee
2:29 am on Wednesday, November 7, 2012
congrats to dems across the state big victories no more blaming someone else though
kevin thomas crowley
4:51 am on Wednesday, November 7, 2012
it was indeed a great nite. now, if we could only get 50% of the people who voted yesterday in somerville to vote in local elections.
Amy
8:31 am on Wednesday, November 7, 2012
So much for racism ha?
Reader99
2:11 pm on Wednesday, November 7, 2012
I hope Scott Brown runs for governor but this being a sick state I don't know if he could win or not. Perhaps he could run as an independent which is what he was I thought.
Tim
5:53 pm on Wednesday, November 7, 2012
I am glad the President Got re elected . Now we may finally loose the do nothing Governor . It's time for Kermit The Frog to go
Slim Tebow
8:28 pm on Wednesday, November 7, 2012
yeah we need another republican govenor that will only do the job for two years, then bail out, just like the last 4 did.
DAD
6:23 pm on Friday, November 9, 2012
That means we will have Governor Murray
john
6:30 pm on Friday, November 9, 2012
Murray is the poster child for seat belts. He will need one on his office chair.
Tim
9:52 pm on Wednesday, November 7, 2012
Yeah your right Jon Boy . Without Kermit what would Garballey do? Maybe he would become Murrays Coffee boy. Oh even better maybe he will join Murray the next time he goes out to check storm damage or check out a rest area .. LoL
kerstin locherie
4:58 pm on Friday, November 9, 2012
The election results, What do they mean? Not proud to be a woman in America !
We voted in favor of drugs, killing seniors & nine month old fetuses, free vibrators and birth control, brought to you by the efforts of Sandra Fluke ?
Voting for Obama is like sleeping with a Whore according to Silvio Berlusconi, you feel great while you're doing it, you feel disgusted after the deed. You feel regret once the doctor tells you the bad news about your new STD's. I guess what I'm worried about. What will children inherit further on down the road and not past indiscretions. The danger to our country and the world is not Barack Obama, but a citizenry capable of entrusting a man like him with the office of the Presidency. It would be far easier to limit and undo the follies of an Obama presidency than to restore the necessary common sense and good judgment to a depraved electorate willing to have such a man for their president. Cognitive Linguistics only proves out that the opiate of the people would be comprised of that entity providing for what the people want. As our children are enabled our adults are entitled which is why Obama won the heart and souls of our people. We are plagued and damned as a people to one way of thinking, brain washed by media from all sources. What is needed is a new awakening, and opening up of ones mind. "Being responsible and mindful" The problem is much deeper and far more serious than President Obama, who is a mere symptom of what ails America
Richard W. Lunt
5:14 pm on Friday, November 9, 2012
Well said Kerstin! Some Voters will never learn, they have been brainwashed by the liberal media.
Lee Leavitt
5:48 pm on Friday, November 9, 2012
Well said? I don't think so. Nastily said .... untruthfully said ... bitterly said. Enuff said.
Andrew Sylvia
6:06 pm on Friday, November 9, 2012
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Just Saying
6:46 pm on Friday, November 9, 2012
She's also copied & pasted the same comment on at least 2 other threads. She must be very proud of her ridiculous attempt at commenting! So so sad.
Ronald
6:01 pm on Friday, November 9, 2012
At least Tewksbury voted for Romney and Brown. That's the only thing I can feel good about in this election.
The best men lost!
john
6:19 pm on Friday, November 9, 2012
Patreaus,Panneta,Geitner,Clinton,Holder all want out of Obama's administration.The recent hidden scandals will explode and disgrace Obama but why should he care he's going nowhere.Iran flipped Obama the bird and the rest of the world is watching us getting crused by negativity.Imagine,the strongest ,greatest country in the world on a FISCAL CLIFF. Look at the clowns running this circus,Obama,Biden,Bhoenor,Reid,McConel and Pelosi.
Diana
6:29 pm on Friday, November 9, 2012
The FISCAL CLIFF has left john so poor he can't afford a space bar.
john
7:14 pm on Friday, November 9, 2012
When you have nothing to say,Diana,that's what you should do. That childish response makes me laugh.
Ron Goodenow
6:27 pm on Friday, November 9, 2012
Is it possible this tedious threat can be ended? Surely every flame, silly prediction, misuse of facts and chest thumping on the losing side has been said, with less and less eloquence. Surely Patch has earned its click money off it.
Just Saying
6:52 pm on Friday, November 9, 2012
Ummmm, just close it then - it's the X in the top right corner!
Mark Ouellette
5:39 am on Saturday, November 10, 2012
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