not that we need more. This screen shot taken a few minutes ago:
Markey “locked in a tight race” with Gomez with most precincts in at a 9-point lead. That’s like a 100,000-plus vote lead.
I’d say something snarky but I’m just speechless.
Please share widely!
it looks as though the article just hadn’t caught up with the returns. In the screenshot, you can see that the article was based on the numbers with 43% reporting, while the top of the screen shows that 87% had actually reported by that time. When I checked the results at about 8:45 pm or so, the race was something like 51-48, which was a bit tighter than I had expected.
It’s certainly sloppy of the Globe to have a front-page article proclaiming a tight race running at the same time that one of the candidates has a check-mark next to his name, but I’m not sure it’s more nefarious than that.
in retrospect I am sure you are right. I was too quick to post.
The Globe did promote its two memes, horse race and boring, right up to the end. Boring horse race?
Note that Markey ran an issues campaign (choice, guns, social security and the safety net) while Gomez ran on personalities and name calling. The issues were clear cut, the personalities were not, hence both the result and the disenchantment of the jaded punditocracy.
What if all elections were about issues rather than optics and name calling?