Coakley wins in Mass. - Boston Globe publishes at NOON!

[jaqeboy]

I hate to bring up politics on NHFree, but the Boston Globe on their online site boston.com has already published the returns. The Boston Phoenix catches it before they pull the "oopsy" posting down.

http://thephoenix.com/BLOGS/talkingpolitics/archive/2010/01/19/boston-globe-calls-election-for-martha-coakley.aspx

Mebbe another reason to argue that it doesn't matter if! you vote or not - The Globe already has determined the vote counts!

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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.

Having worked with exactly these AP data feeds for NHPR, I find this perfectly plausible and innocent.

[jaqeboy]

Found this article from a link on a new news aggregator from Breitbart: BigGovernment: http://biggovernment.com/ - looks like a promising site.

[jaqeboy]

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.

Having worked with exactly these AP data feeds for NHPR, I find this perfectly plausible and innocent.

The comments on the article are kinda fun.  Like one implies, for the Globe's sake, the results at 8PM better be different than their noontime call.