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, …
Updates on the 2012 elections here in Wellesley will be posted throughout the day. Connect with us on Twitter too at #PatchElections and tell us what you see by tweeting @Wellesley_Patch and commenting on facebook.com/WellesleyPatch.
Stay with Wellesley Patch all day as we update this article with news and information from the polls and live election results after 8 p.m. Share your photos and videos from Election Day by clicking the Upload Photos and Video button! Also, tell us what've seen at the polls in the comments below: How long did you wait to vote today? Which candidate has the most visible presence among signholders? Join the conversation in the comments. Elizabeth Warren (D) beats Scott Brown (R) for U.S. Senate Scott Brown has represented Massachusetts in the U.S. Senate since a January 2010 special election held to fill the U.S. Senate seat vacated by the late Ted Kennedy. Brown defeated state Attorney General Martha Coakley with 1,168,107 votes, or 51.9 …
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 ›