Ed Markey Wins Senate Special Election in Massachusetts

Democrat Rep. Edward Markey was elected Tuesday to fill the Senate seat vacated by John Kerry‘s appointment as Secretary of State. Markey got 55 percent of the vote to 45 percent for Republican newcomer Gabriel Gomez.

The Massachusetts election had been viewed as a bellwether for next year’s mid-term elections.  In January 2010, Republican Scott Brown‘s upset victory in the state’s special election to fill late Sen. Ted Kennedy‘s seat was a harbinger of the mid-term surge in which the GOP captured control of the House of Representatives.

The special election gains Markey a 16-month tenure on the Massachusetts seat, and the Democrat will be up for re-election in November 2014. Sen. Jerry Moran of Kansas,  chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, indicated Tuesday that the NRSC expects Gomez, a former Navy SEAL, to challenge Markey again next year. “Today marks the end of the first mile in the marathon to permanently fill the Massachusetts Senate seat,” Moran said in a statement. “Gomez is well-prepared to win that marathon over the next 16 months.”

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4 Comments

  1. June 26, 2013  8:45 am by Bob Belvedere Reply

    The Massachusetts election had been viewed as a bellwether for next year’s mid-term elections.

    If it is a bellwether, it should be because it sends a signal to the GOP that we conservatives are not going to vote for RINO's anymore. Conservatives in The Commonwealth stayed home yesterday. Gomez ran as a Democrat-Lite and he shunned the TEA Party, so the conservatives said, 'Okay, you don't want us...well then, we'll stay away...FU Gabriel Gomez'.

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