9:21 PM: AP has declared Brown the winner. The Boston Globe reports that Coakley called Brown to concede.
69% of vote in:
Brown (R) 53% 791,972 votes
Coakly (D) 46% 696,751 votes
We'll be monitoring results tonight. You can get live results here. AP has more detailed results.
Swing State Project has the benchmarks to watch tonight.
Rasmussen did an election night poll:
Preliminary results include:On CNN at 8:23 PM, the network's GOP commentator, Erick Erickson, the editor of the right-wing blog, Red State, said:* Among those who decided how they would vote in the past few days, Coakley has a slight edge, 47% to 41%.
* Coakley also has a big advantage among those who made up their mind more than a month ago.
* Seventy-six percent (76%) of voters for Brown said they were voting for him rather than against Coakley.
* Sixty-six percent (66%) of Coakley voters said they were voting for her rather than against Brown.
* 22% of Democrats voted for Brown. That is generally consistent with pre-election polling.
The irony here though, is that Obama's unicorn of hope and change is dying under Ted Kennedy...that if Ted Kennedy had decided to resign or retire when he found just out how bad his health was, instead of being wanting to be a martyr for the cause, the Democrats wouldn't be in this position.
