Another e-mail:

I live and work in Holyoke, MA. Former mill town in western Massachusetts that is heavily Democratic. During the last week or so I have been seeing Brown signs at number of homes throughout the city. The only sign for Martha Coakley that I saw was posted in front of the local construction laborer’s union hall.
I went to the polls at around 11:15 AM with my wife to vote for Scott Brown. It was snowing pretty hard then but the place was as crowded as it was during the 2008 presidential election (no significant lines though). Overheard a couple of upscale young moms (who were carrying their babies) mentioning that they had voted for Brown. Until this election I would have pegged them as liberal Democrats. This may not mean much but I just can’t see people dragging themselves and their kids to the polls to vote for the status quo.