[ken5050]

Carr makes one mistake..There is NO special election for a vacant Seat. The governor appts someone until the NEXT regular statewide election...

[billorites]

Said one longtime acquaintance (the appropriate word, because Kerry has no real friends): “I’d almost feel sorry for him, if I didn’t know him so well.”

Snort, guffaw...

[maryz]

There is NO special election for a vacant Seat. The governor appts someone until the NEXT regular statewide election...

Not in MA -- as pointed out upthread, the legislature in hopes that Kerry would win in 2004 changed the law: special election.