So this is the big day for voters in the People’s Seat, the old Senate stronghold of the Murderer from Massachusetts. Just before polling opened Scott Brown was somewhere between 4 and 11 points ahead according to Charles Franklin of Pollster.com:

…no matter how you slice the data, the only reasonable conclusion is that Scott Brown has moved from well behind to a lead somewhere between 4 and 11 points.
…Perhaps you only trust non-partisan polls. Then the Brown lead is 6.8 points.
Maybe you are a Dem, who doesn’t trust the Republican pollsters. Then Brown leads by 6.5 points.
Or you are a Dem who doesn’t trust the non-partisan pollsters either and who does believe in the leaks from the Coakley campaign. Then Brown’s lead is 3.8 points.
Or you are a Rep who trusts GOP and nonpartisan polls only. Then Brown leads by 11.3.

However, things may not be going as smoothly as all that. The election is still within the margin of ACORN – take, for example, this YouTube video showing a woman handing out blank absentee forms.

Concerns about infringements of electoral law are already coming in. Election Journal reports, for instance, that “reports are pouring in from across the city of Boston that Martha Coakley signs have been placed inside the 150 foot buffer zone mandated by Commonwealth Law.

And it appears that the Boston Globe published the results of today’s elections, while people were still voting. The Globe says they “tested” their map which sounds like a plausible explanation, but as a commenter at Free Republic points out,  you’ve got to wonder what it says about The Globe that it tested the map with Coakley winning the race, while Brown is leading in every single poll.

However if the race is so close, why aren’t Coakley supporters worried?

Whatever the result, TheHill asks here (and gives the answers of a variety of pundits from the sensible to the clinically insane) the question: How will Democrats/Republicans spin a loss if their party’s candidate loses in the Massachusetts Senate race? 

If Scott Brown wins, though, we should really looking forward to the brouhaha over swearing him in and seating him. That will be fun.

Asked for her response to the election to replace the late and unlamented Ted Kennedy, it seems that Mary Jo Kopechne was unavailable for comment.

GOP/Dem graphic hat-tip ConHome, links from a variety of blogs