Maggie's Farm

Brown isn't going to win, and I'll tell you why. Independents can't work on the polling stations, only Democrats and Republicans can. And the Republican Party has no infrastructure here, the state is locked up tight by the Democrats.
Example: My eighty-two year old mother is a poll worker in her town, the town clerk is a Democrat and assigns the poll workers. The town clerk knows my mother is a lifelong Republican and keeps quietly dropping her from the list of available workers, she has to call constantly to get back on. However, the other "republican" poll workers her works with are all Democrats, Democrats appointed by the Town Clerk to the "republican" spots in full knowledge that they are not Republicans. In her small town, in the other polling spots, every time she works somewhere, she is the only republican. I believe this to do true in my town as well.
So where the votes are handled, they are handled by Democrats, when they are counted, they are counted by Democrats. In some of the large cities the Republicans can get a few people involved to keep a eye on things, but in most of the Commonwealth its all Democrat.
Don't be surprised when the voting totals doesn't match the polling predication's by a wide margin.

I was wrong, and am I delighted.