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Barack Obama won Massachusetts' 11 electoral votes on Tuesday, defeating Republican Mitt Romney. In the 2008 presidential election, the state voted for the Democratic candidate, and ...

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Democrat Joan Lovely, after 15 years on the Salem City Council, won herself a seat on Beacon Hill Tuesday night. In a landslide victory, Lovely defeated Beverly Republican Richard Jo...

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  Mitt Romney's back in Massachusetts and throwing a party tonight. Ever wonder what a presidential election night party is like? What do you wear? What's the food like? How excited ...

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Ward 2 Warden Maureen Fisher arrived at St. Peter's Catholic Church at 10 minutes before 6 a.m. to set up for the day's voting. By 7 a.m., when she opened the doors, the line of voters ex...

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Patch is all over Massachusetts today covering the election and we have run into many national and Massachusetts figures.  Flip through our photos that will likely grow throughout th...

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How do you start the most important day in your life? If you're Mitt Romney, you come back to your home town to vote. Belmont will witness one of the rarest sites in America: A presidenti...

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Check back at your local Patch all day for live election updates. While Massachusetts is expected to go to Barack Obama over Mitt Romney in the race for President of the United State...

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  A new NBC News/WSJ poll shows President Obama at 48 percent and Mitt Romney at 47 percent. That suggests there are still a bunch of undecided voters. The candidates are both o...