At 3 p.m., I wrote:

The Boston Globe puts turnout in their home city at 55,000 by noon.
I can hear you screaming. Keep in mind overall turnout is expected to be between 1.6 million and 2.2 million.
Also keep in mind that for comparison, Deval Patrick got 112,000 votes in Boston in 2006; the Republican Healey got a bit more than 32,000. Patrick had 1.23 million votes, so the city ended up being only 9 percent of his total. Overall turnout that year was 2.21 million.

Well, now word is that the turnout in Boston by 3 p.m. was “23 percent of the city’s registered voters — 88,112 residents.”

In other words, as of midafternoon, turnout in Boston is 56 percent what it was in 2006, the last non-presidential general election. While there could be a late evening surge, and we have to wait for the votes to be counted, this is one more ominous sign for Martha Coakley.