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.

Obviously, in an ideal circumstance, polling places in Democrat-heavy Boston would be ghost towns, with only the not-so-rare “Democrats For Brown” showing up. But these, at this point, do not look like Coakley-saving numbers.

I’m told a guy tracking these sorts of things for the Brown folks responds to the number, “that’s fine.”