Massachusetts Election 2010: Voting Begins In Brown Coakley Senate Race (PHOTOS)

The 2010 Massachusetts Election is officially underway between Senate candidates Scott Brown and Martha Coakley.

Voting has begun, and both Brown and Coakley have cast their respective ballots for the highly-anticipated race to fill the late Sen. Ted Kennedy's Senate seat.

Brown, the Republican candidate, was said to have late momentum in the race and Democrats have been reportedly preparing for the worst.

Have a look at Brown and Coakley's appearances today and the day so far in photos:

Voters check out after voting at a polling place in Somerville, Mass., Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2010, during a special election to fill the U.S. Senate seat left vacant by the death of Sen. Edward Kennedy. (AP Photo/Josh Reynolds)

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[socialmistfit]

08:44 PM on 01/19/2010

An oldie but a goodie ...

“A Liberal Democrat (aka "looter") will help themselves to the money from the pockets of producers in order to "save" all the victims "moochers", until the money is gone and we all become moochers.

A conservative democrat needs a job, and only a producer can supply it.

A conservative expects everyone to compete for prosperity, and unlike a elite liberal snob, thinks everyone is capable to do so.

[lilbabushka]

07:37 PM on 01/19/2010

An oldie but a goodie ...

“A Liberal Democrat will help ALL the people no matter color , sexual orientation or religion

A conservative democrat will help some of the people as long as he or she gets re-elected

A conservative will help white christian males that make up the top 1 percent of wealth

A tea bag ger will do the same as long as he gets paid doing it (as I have been saying for so long)

500 k red
ONE POINT 5 MILLION BLUE
COAKLEY WINS BY DOUBLE DIGITS,,, :)””

[The Bank]

07:56 PM on 01/19/2010

How's Wonderland treating you Alice?

[mrman]

07:24 PM on 01/19/2010

I lived in New England in the late 70's. It was the time of serious racial turmoil. I did not see much difference from the racial attitude in the South East. New Englanders have all sorts of prejudices. Old money, race, education, etc.

[LowDensityPoly]

07:42 PM on 01/19/2010

Unlike where?

[Crumbx]

09:25 PM on 01/19/2010

Madison, Wisconsin?

[bushlies]

07:53 PM on 01/19/2010

Trust me on this: No matter where they live. No matter what religion they profess:

ALL IRISH ARE WHITE RACISTS! The Kennedys are the exception, not the rule.

I know my own kind. Ignore this and we will lose this nation to fascism!

A Protestant Irishman (or Scots Irishman, if you prefer) from Tennessee or North Carolina and an Irishman from Southie in Boston=Two horns on the same Judas Goat!

[Crumbx]

09:31 PM on 01/19/2010

So totally true BUshlies. I use to be an aide to a now dead (and honored) pol from Boston's North End. I originally came from Tennessee--same white Protestant Irish stock. I definitely thought I hadn't changed states when I hit the Boston City Council and met Dapper O'Neil and Louise Day Hicks and heard some of their ravings in that forum. But let's not get carried away here now. We did go for Obama last year (seems a long time ago now) and Deval Patrick is our Governor. The Woman Thing? Well, Martha Coakley is our Attorney General.

[mrman]

07:18 PM on 01/19/2010

Maybe it's me ...but every time I look at Coakley...I see Geraldine Ferraro...wierd.

[Nihillasowagan]

07:21 PM on 01/19/2010

There's very little similarity between those two women -- politically speaking.

[FreeMarket25]

05:25 PM on 01/19/2010

I don't like that Brown did not focus on balancing the budget by slashing spending. The country will not prosper until we balance the budget. And the sharp spending cuts needed to balance the budget can only happen with a clear mandate from the voters.

[WRP64]

07:16 PM on 01/19/2010

You could at least gesture at an argument for why prosperity requires a balanced budget at this point. I'll offer you the obvious objection anyway. Imagine you are in debt and facing financial disaster. If you could obtain the financing, you could expand your business to the point where your current debts would be an insignificant inconvenience. But you would turn down the loan because your first priority is getting out of debt.

Of course you wouldn't be so stupid. But you now ask us to in the case of our public sector. Of course you will argue that our public sector is not a business and doesn't provide a return on investment. But you are wrong on both counts. The public has its business and its institutions are run pretty much like any other business (of course its less than perfectly efficiently, as is the case with any other large human enterprise.) The public's business does produce a significant return on investment, just not one that you can look up as a P/E ratio. Things like infrastructure, education, security and help in an emergency are real benefits. Lots of these are things the private sector need to function at all. I'm not really interested in giving up those benefits so that you can have a balanced budget.

[FreeMarket25]

05:21 PM on 01/19/2010

I think GOTV activity on election day should be illegal. No robo calls. No driving people to the polls. No bringing absentee ballots to voters. All of these practices are inherently coercive.

[AdamNauseam]

05:29 PM on 01/19/2010

No they're not. It's encouraging people that you know support you to do their civic duty. The democracy doesn't work unless people participate.

[FreeMarket25]

05:42 PM on 01/19/2010

People working for the political parties approach people in nursing homes with absentee ballots. The implicit message is either you vote and vote correctly, or you will be kicked out of the nursing home.

[jmarch]

06:12 PM on 01/19/2010

Driving people to the polls and bringing absentee ballots to voters are timed-honored traditions and anything but coercive. Both parties do it, and both should. Robo calls, well that's another matter. They should be illegal twenty-four seven, no matter what or who they're for.

[scottco]

05:18 PM on 01/19/2010

LOVE the old timey bike guy. Scott Brown...building a bridge to the 19th century!

[ipastor01]

04:59 PM on 01/19/2010

Although I want Coakley to win (partly because I think she is hot), this is American democracy at its best !

I'm more of the Jon Stewart's logic when it comes to the Dems... If the Dems can't delivered without her , they weren't going to deliver anyways...

[PassingBy]

05:56 PM on 01/19/2010

That's a fact.

[doubtingdavid]

06:24 PM on 01/19/2010

That part is true.

[Shack95]

04:57 PM on 01/19/2010

Hope this is not proof that "once again, Republicans convince Americans to vote against their best interest".

[FreeMarket25]

05:27 PM on 01/19/2010

The extreme deficit spending of the last 2 years has to be reversed. Otherwise the country will implode financially. Coakley favors the deficit spending. I think Brown is opposed, or kind of does not want so much of it.

[AdamNauseam]

05:32 PM on 01/19/2010

What planet are you living on? We're trying to cut health care costs. We're trying to contain a financial meltdown and stimulate the economy. Nobody "favors" deficit spending but Bush created the deficit we have now with tax cuts and war. Obama is working to dig us out of that mess.

[curtdalton]

04:31 PM on 01/19/2010

We are zeroing in on Massachusetts today and studying the supply demand curves of all Massachusetts IP.'s. We are seeing what people are searching for around Brown/Coakley and what people are supplying them for answers. We clearly see Brown as winning this race based on search demand and search "results"
We study search demand/supply trends from around the world to find profitable niches and products and the main problem with predictions and "trends" is that no one looks at the "supply" side to these predictions. A niche, or hot predictions, is not just a demand side issue, but a supply/demand curve. If you predict IPHONE apps will take off, and there are already 100,000 aps, then you aren't going to hit that one. If you see that demand for cell phone radiation shields is going nuts and there are only two suppliers, then you can be pretty sure that it will be a good year for those 2 supplies. The software at www.TheInternetTimeMachine.com studies both the demand (search volume) and supply (think "results" in Google). The Google Phone is generating much more buzz right now then say the Apple Tablet.
Cheers,
Curt
Here is a video on what I mean.. http://bit.ly/SupplyDemandCurves

[ImpeachBushCheney]

04:23 PM on 01/19/2010

Yeaa, Obama.s not good enough, lets bring back the Republicans so we can end human existence on this earth once and for all!

[doubtingdavid]

06:26 PM on 01/19/2010

You are clearly an argument for population control or Darwinism. Fools should not be allowed to breed.

[Cucaracha]

04:20 PM on 01/19/2010

That Brown is so HOT! I'd give him head for my vote... HOT!

[Sylvia A]

04:27 PM on 01/19/2010

... and get the government you deserve, addled simpleton.

[AllenFromAtlanta]

04:32 PM on 01/19/2010

Well if he gets elected you'll definately get getting one in the a@@.

[madzippy]

04:54 PM on 01/19/2010

Either way, no chance of pregnancy. A good idea since no abortion under Brown.

[Cucaracha]

04:19 PM on 01/19/2010

I don't see "Mass hysteria" in the pics. Just because you can make a pun doesn't mean it's appropriate to the news matter, HuffPoo.

[zbig]

04:09 PM on 01/19/2010

I don't understand why Americans are disappointed by Obama. Let's see, since he's been in office, he's overturned Bush's anti-stem-cell research, he's provided health care for kids (S-Chip), he's closing down Iraq (my friend who works for a contractor said they're clearly winding down, sending all their workers home), environment agencies are doing better, he's brought the economy up, fewer jobs lost, and his health care plan will stop everything the movie "Sicko" complained about: losing health coverage due to pre-conditions, higher premiums, etc.

[madzippy]

04:22 PM on 01/19/2010

Agreed. People have lost sight of what has been accomplished and what the administration has tried to do. People seem to forget so quickly how bad things were and who put us there. As for people complaining about government spending, even conservative economists said the government is the only entity with the resources to jump start the economy. Democrats and Independents are cutting their noses to spite their faces if they think voting for Brown is the answer. Send a message? Fine. Write and call your representative. But, to vote for someone who is the antithesis of Ted Kennedy is such a disrespectful slap in the face to his legacy.

[LiberalYankeeFan]

04:25 PM on 01/19/2010

Obama has nothing to do with Iraq, Bush was winding down that war well before Obama took the oath.

[LiberalYankeeFan]

04:26 PM on 01/19/2010

Oh and health care bill will die once Brown is elected.

[think4you]

03:52 PM on 01/19/2010

Democrats (including Obama) masquerading as progressives shot them down as a gift to their real owners--corporate donors
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let me see if i understand you; you would rather see the person most furthest from your position on issues win the election than the one closer to your positions because they are not close enough. Guess who loses the most.

[kape]

04:09 PM on 01/19/2010

Bush v Gore all over again. Didn't work out so well last time. We never learn.