Mixed Feelings Among Wellesley Voters
The results are in, and while Wellesley mostly went along with the national results, there were discrepancies.
Two 20-year-olds on different sides of party lines, on independent who sided with the Democrats and a lot of sign holding is what you would have found in Wellesley yesterday. The election is over and the Democrats won, both locally and nationally, but in Wellesley, not everyone was voting Democrat. “I don’t like how [President Obama] handled Libya,” David Melton, 20, a student at Boston Baptist said outside of Fiske Elementary School. Melton wanted to oust Obama “Just like you’d fire someone from a job for making a mistake.” Scott Brown, the Republican Senator who lost his bid for re-elction to Democrat Elizabeth Warren, was obliterated in the state polls, but not in Wellesley. He won the pre-absentee ballot popular vote by 45 votes, …
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Dan Grossman
10:32 am on Thursday, November 8, 2012
I understand that after some absentee ballots were counted, along with some other ballots that had to be counted by hand, Senator-elect Warren won the vote in Wellesley by 46 votes. more ›