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Rep. Edward Markey wins John Kerry's Senate seat in Massachusetts
Los Angeles Times ^ | 06/25/2013 | By Michael A. Memoli

Posted on 06/25/2013 7:44:24 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

Massachusetts voters elevated a veteran congressman to the U.S. Senate on Tuesday, choosing longtime Democratic Rep. Edward J. Markey to fill John F. Kerry’s unexpired term.

With 82% of precincts reporting, Markey held an 8-percentage-point lead over Republican Gabriel Gomez, and the Associated Press declared him the winner. Markey will serve 17 months; the seat will be on the ballot again in November 2014.

The race to replace Kerry, who resigned Feb. 1 to become U.S. secretary of State, began with the lessons of another Massachusetts special election fresh in both parties' minds. But the prospect of another upset fizzled after a campaign in which Democrats left little to chance and Republicans lacked the galvanizing issue that "Obamacare" proved to be in the 2010 race won by Scott Brown.

"The lesson from Scott Brown’s accidental win in 2010 was that Democrats must never take a race for granted," said Guy Cecil, executive director of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. "Democrats came together at the local and national level, and executed a campaign plan to ensure victory."

This election failed to generate much interest. The state’s chief elections officer projected a record low turnout, with just over a third of 4.3 million registered voters expected to cast ballots. That would be more than 600,000 fewer than in the January 2010 special election prompted by the death of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy.

(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; Political Humor/Cartoons; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: johnkerry; markey; massachusetts
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1 posted on 06/25/2013 7:44:24 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Shocker. You can’t out liberal a liberal.


2 posted on 06/25/2013 7:45:42 PM PDT by headstamp 2 (What would Scooby do?)
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To: SeekAndFind

Thank God a RINO didn’t win.


3 posted on 06/25/2013 7:46:09 PM PDT by ConservativeInPA (Molon Labe - Shall not be questioned)
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To: SeekAndFind

Now Mass. has two absolute retard Senators for life.


4 posted on 06/25/2013 7:46:42 PM PDT by headstamp 2 (What would Scooby do?)
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To: SeekAndFind

That headline wouldn’t have been as funny prior to Barry Soetoro’s “evolution”.


5 posted on 06/25/2013 7:47:24 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Osama tried and failed. Obama got it done.)
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To: headstamp 2
Now Mass. has two absolute retard Senators for life.

To go along with all of their retarded voters.

6 posted on 06/25/2013 7:47:26 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: SeekAndFind

Libtards vote for a libtard... another shocking demonstration of diversity.


7 posted on 06/25/2013 7:53:18 PM PDT by Common Sense 101 (Hey libs... If your theories fly in the face of reality, it's not reality that's wrong.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Big surprise.


8 posted on 06/25/2013 7:54:04 PM PDT by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Maybe if they hadn’t nominated the chairman of Republicans for Obama, they might have had a fighting chance.


9 posted on 06/25/2013 7:55:15 PM PDT by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: ConservativeInPA

He would spend 17 months voting with the Democrats on judges and amnesty.

Obamacare is not getting repealed by an extra RINO vote.


10 posted on 06/25/2013 8:05:21 PM PDT by ObamahatesPACoal
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To: ConservativeInPA
Thank God a RINO didn’t win.

Boy, you are right about that. Much better than an avowed Communist won.

11 posted on 06/25/2013 8:08:40 PM PDT by centurion316
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To: SeekAndFind

Good.

Now maybe those Masshole RINO orgs will stop spamming me to death. “Unsubscribe” from one and two more take its place.

(Anyone *else* make the mistake of donating to Scott Brown a few years ago? Or am I the only fool?)


12 posted on 06/25/2013 8:10:13 PM PDT by Nervous Tick (Without GOD, men get what they deserve.)
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13 posted on 06/25/2013 8:12:06 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement ("World Peace 1.20.09.")
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To: SeekAndFind

So, next up will be a special election to fill Markey’s seat, as he vacates his House seat to move to the Senate???

I wonder how long it will take Markey to be sworn in to the Senate by Harry Reid and his boys. There were unusual delays with seating Scott Brown after his special election.


14 posted on 06/25/2013 8:14:11 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: dfwgator

Ain’t it the truth...


15 posted on 06/25/2013 8:17:02 PM PDT by headstamp 2 (What would Scooby do?)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Well of course he wins. It is mass-a-chews-butts. Where everything happened a long time ago and doesn’t make any difference anyway at this point.


16 posted on 06/25/2013 8:17:51 PM PDT by rktman (Inergalactic background checks? King hussein you're first up.)
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To: Nervous Tick

Nope. I did it and regret it still.


17 posted on 06/25/2013 8:22:03 PM PDT by rlmorel (Silence: The New Hate Speech)
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To: SeekAndFind

Gabriel, you threw the remnants of any principles you had out the window for nothing.


18 posted on 06/25/2013 8:22:05 PM PDT by bramps (Sarah Palin got more votes in 2008 than Mitt Romney got in 2012)
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>> Much better than an avowed Communist won.

http://www.wbur.org/2013/06/04/gomez-republican-party

Gomez says if elected he wants to help his party by moving it in five new ways.

“I’m going to help [the Republican Party] appeal to all Americans, as opposed to the privileged few. I’m going to help them with gay marriage, I’m pro-gay-marriage. I’m a green Republican, I believe in climate change. I’m going to get more of them to come over on my side,” Gomez said. “I believe in immigration reform, I’m going to get more of my Republican counterparts to come along with me. And I believe in gun control and expanded background checks.”

Markey... Gomez... seriously, at this point, what difference does it make?


19 posted on 06/25/2013 8:22:27 PM PDT by Nervous Tick (Without GOD, men get what they deserve.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Here is quote from brainiac who vote for him and why she voted against Markey’s opposition.

“In Cambridge, Lori Berenson, 51, said she voted for Markey mainly because she was skeptical of one of Gomez’s main campaign pitches: his request for just 17 months in office.

“He thinks in 17 months he’s going to accomplish what Markey hasn’t done in 37 years?” she said.

So she knows Markey has not been able to do anything with a lifetime in office but she voted for him anyway.

Stupid is as Stupid votes.


20 posted on 06/25/2013 8:24:03 PM PDT by funfan
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