Folks maybe need to brace themselves for a possible surprise Gomez win in Massachusetts today. [View all]

[WilliamPitt]

For one reason: "As of 3 p.m., 48,868 voters in Boston, or 12.5 percent of the city’s electorate, had cast ballots, according to state election officials. That is a significant drop from the 2010 special Senate election, when 81,882 voters in Boston, or about 22 percent, had voted in Boston at 3 p.m." - Boston.com

12.5%.

Bank on a lot of that being GOP voters. The idea that voting Republican in Massachusetts is a hopeless cause died a swift death in 2010...and if you think there aren't a lot of conservative voters here, you've bought into the old fiction about "The People's Republic of Massachusetts."

I'm not saying anything here, but I'm having oh, fuck, not again feelings after seeing that turnout number.

Stay tuned.

Update: as of 6pm, Boston turnout up to 18%. Still below the 2010 election.