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Old 01-19-2010, 12:56 PM
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Default BREAKING NEWS: Boston Globe Publishes Coakley Win Ahead of Time

PHENOMENAL, busted. Now we all know you write two stories, one for each side. But usually you don't have the numbers....BUSTED!

http://www.parcbench.com/2010/01/19/...ction-results/

Also note that 1/4 of Mass voters believe that ACORN will steal the seat and will not believe the results if Coakley wins.
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With exact numbers and everything.
I wonder what acorn is up to?
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WTF?

Really... they put this together? The Boston Globe is out of control.
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WTF?

Really... they put this together? The Boston Globe is out of control.
If the numbers are anywhere near accurate something should get looked into with this.
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LOL, the Boston Herald is right on top of the story...

Globe jumps the gun in online map goof
By Joe Dwinell
Tuesday, January 19, 2010

In a premature online Dewey beats Truman moment, boston.com today posted an online map of Massachusetts voting results declaring Attorney General Martha Coakley the winner of today’s special U.S. Senate election.

Whoops.

There’s only one problem, guys - the polls are open until 8 p.m.

“It was a test on a tool and it meant nothing. I don’t know how these things happen,” said the executive assistant to the editor of boston.com. The editor, David Beard, has yet to return a call to the Herald.

The boston.com map called the race for Coakley 50 percent to state Sen. Scott Brown’s 49 percent. Independent Joseph L. Kennedy, no relation to the Kennedy clan, comes in last with a mere 1 percent.

Ouch.

The bogus map shows Coakley capturing most of eastern Massachusetts all the way to the tip of Cape Cod.

Brown was big, in the Globe’s wish map, taking the North Shore.

The map is now down - at least until the real results come in after 8 p.m.

UPDATE: Bob Powers, vice president of communications for the Globe, blamed the goof on the Associated Press. Here’s his statement:

"AP was testing an election data feed to its Massachusetts clients. During corresponding tests at our end, the feed of AP’s hypothetical test data was inadvertently posted for a few minutes on a single subsection page within our site. As soon as the error was discovered, it was removed. We regret the mishap."
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PHENOMENAL, busted. Now we all know you write two stories, one for each side. But usually you don't have the numbers....BUSTED!

http://www.parcbench.com/2010/01/19/...ction-results/

Also note that 1/4 of Mass voters believe that ACORN will steal the seat and will not believe the results if Coakley wins.
Humm, can you say fraud. ACORN has got be stopped. The loosy goosy voter registration laws are out of control. This is one time where I think that there should be a national standard for voter registration that all counties and states have to adhere to, and registration drives are not allowed. If it can be shown that box stuffing occured the crap should hit the fan, and all of it can go right into Obama's face, along with his leftist pet club Acorn.
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LOL, the Boston Herald is right on top of the story...

Globe jumps the gun in online map goof
By Joe Dwinell
Tuesday, January 19, 2010

In a premature online Dewey beats Truman moment, boston.com today posted an online map of Massachusetts voting results declaring Attorney General Martha Coakley the winner of today’s special U.S. Senate election.

Whoops.

There’s only one problem, guys - the polls are open until 8 p.m.

“It was a test on a tool and it meant nothing. I don’t know how these things happen,” said the executive assistant to the editor of boston.com. The editor, David Beard, has yet to return a call to the Herald.

The boston.com map called the race for Coakley 50 percent to state Sen. Scott Brown’s 49 percent. Independent Joseph L. Kennedy, no relation to the Kennedy clan, comes in last with a mere 1 percent.

Ouch.

The bogus map shows Coakley capturing most of eastern Massachusetts all the way to the tip of Cape Cod.

Brown was big, in the Globe’s wish map, taking the North Shore.

The map is now down - at least until the real results come in after 8 p.m.

UPDATE: Bob Powers, vice president of communications for the Globe, blamed the goof on the Associated Press. Here’s his statement:

"AP was testing an election data feed to its Massachusetts clients. During corresponding tests at our end, the feed of AP’s hypothetical test data was inadvertently posted for a few minutes on a single subsection page within our site. As soon as the error was discovered, it was removed. We regret the mishap."
It sounds like,.....wait for it.....he's lieing. Are you even surprised? I'm not.
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Humm, can you say fraud. ACORN has got be stopped. The loosy goosy voter registration laws are out of control. This is one time where I think that there should be a national standard for voter registration that all counties and states have to adhere to, and registration drives are not allowed. If it can be shown that box stuffing occured the crap should hit the fan, and all of it can go right into Obama's face, along with his leftist pet club Acorn.
In a perfect world, this election would be the final straw and both parties would jump all over that issue ASAP, but we know that won't happen.
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In a perfect world, this election would be the final straw and both parties would jump all over that issue ASAP, but we know that won't happen.
Sad but very very true.
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Woopsies! Excellent way to pwn the conspiricists, however.


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