From the looks of things, Martha Coakley’s going to need all the vote fraud she can get to pull off a win tonight.
Politico reported that the Democrat get-out-the-vote effort is backfiring because so many Democrats are voting for Scott Brown.
And The Boston Globe reported an ominous sign, or should we say, an ominous lack of signs.
Blue Hill Avenue runs like a vein through the city.
It stretches for 4 miles, from River Street in Mattapan to Dudley Street in Roxbury, and a little more than a year ago there was an Obama sign on every block. There were Obama signs in Mattapan barber shops, in the windows of the apartment buildings opposite Franklin Field and Franklin Park, in the restaurants of Grove Hall, in the bodegas near Jermaine Goffigan Park.
Fourteen months ago, there was a buzz on Blue Hill Ave. and the streets that run off it like caterpillar legs. This is the heart of the biggest minority community in the state, and the energy generated by the prospect of Barack Obama becoming president was palpable.
Yesterday, I drove the length of Blue Hill Ave. and counted exactly two Martha Coakley signs. One of them was on a fence next to the Roxbury Energy Gas station, on the corner of Moreland Street. The sign wasn’t properly fastened. It flapped in the wind, revealing a “Mike Flaherty for Mayor’’ sign underneath. ….
Via memeorandum
Update: More positive anecdotal evidence for Scott Brown is being reported by The Other McCain and Da Techguy. Okay, now I can get back to work.
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