Gomez, Markey Set For Final Senate Debate

Debate to air on WCVB Tuesday at 7 p.m.

  Another U.S. Senate election for Massachusetts is drawing to a close, with the two combatants set to square off one final time before voters head to the polls June 25. Democratic Congressman Edward Markey of Malden and Republican businessman and former U.S. Navy SEAL Gabriel Gomez will hold the last of three debates Tuesday evening in the race to fill the seat formerly held by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry. The debate will air live from 7 to 8 p.m. on WCVB (Channel 5). The debate will be moderated by R.D. Sahl of Boston University. The two previous debates for the candidates were held in Boston and Springfield. Recent polling has suggested an edge for Markey in the race. Both candidates have received visits from high-profile …

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Gomez, Markey Spar in First Senate Debate

Gun control, health care, economy, foreign policy among major topics in first meeting of candidates.

  Gabriel Gomez and Edward Markey engaged Wednesday in their first debate before the U.S. Senate special election this month, and the tone was markedly similar to the tone of the overall campaign thus far. Gomez, the Republican Cohasset businessman and former U.S. Navy SEAL, and Markey, the Democratic Malden congressman since his election in 1976, jabbed at each other during the hour-long debate at WBZ-TV's studios and sponsored by the news station and the Boston Globe. Topics for the evening included gun control, health care, the economy, foreign policy, recent national political scandals, immigration and abortion. Time and again, Gomez pounded Markey for his years in Washington, painting the congressman as out of touch with Bay State …

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Gomez, Markey to Square Off in First Debate

The Senate candidates will face each other in a live, televised debate Wednesday.

  The Republican and Democratic candidates for the U.S. Senate special election later this month are set to conduct their first of three scheduled debates Wednesday night. According to an Associated Press article printed in the Boston Herald Monday, Republican businessman Gabriel Gomez of Cohasset and Democratic Congressman Edward Markey of Malden will debate at the WBZ-TV studios Wednesday in a debate sponsored by the TV station and the Boston Globe. WBZ previously reported the debate will take place and air live from 7 to 8 p.m. WBZ political analyst Jon Keller will moderate. According to the Herald, subsequent debates will take place on June 11 in western Massachusetts and June 18 back in Boston. The campaigns reportedly spent weeks "…

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Markey Leads Gomez in New Suffolk/WHDH Poll

Congressman leads Gabriel Gomez by 17 points.

A new Suffolk University/7NEWS (WHDH) poll shows a strong lead for Democratic U.S. Congressman Edward Markey over Republican businessman and former U.S. Navy SEAL Gabriel Gomez in the race for the U.S. Senate special election. The poll of 500 likely voters has Markey at 52 percent and Gomez at 35 percent. Eleven percent of voters in the poll were undecided. A third-party candidate, Richard Heos of the Twelve Visions Party, got 1 percent and another 1 percent refused to respond. David Paleologos, director of the Suffolk University Political Research Center in Boston, said along with the announcement of the poll that Markey has "a large lead over his Republican opponent who voters are unsure about." Indeed, 32 percent of those polled said …

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Gomez to Face Markey in Senate Election

The former Navy SEAL and the longtime Congressman will face off June 30 to fill John Kerry's former U.S. Senate seat.

U.S. Senate Special Primary Election Results for Waltham

See how Waltham voted in the Special Primary Election for the open U.S. Senate seat.

The votes in Waltham are in! Here is how Waltham residents voted in the special senate primary election for the seat John kerry vacated when became the Secretary of State.   Democrats Stephen Lynch  - 1499 Ed Markey - 2,918 (winner) Brett Rhyne - not reported Republicans Michael Sullivan  - 470 Dan Winslow - 137  Gabriel Gomez - 641 (winner) Voter Turnout -- 16.86 percent with 5,673 out of 33,652 registered voters casting ballots. 

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Where You Can Vote in the Special Senate Election

The special Senate primary election is set for Tuesday, April 30.

With the special Senate primary election set for Tuesday, April 30, check out where you can vote. To find your polling place, locate your ward and precinct in the list below.  POLLING LOCATIONS/HOURS All polling places are open from 7 a.m. until 8 p.m. Ward 1/Precinct 1: Thomas R. Plympton Elementary School, 20 Farnsworth St. Ward 1/Precinct 2: Waltham High School, 617 Lexington St. Ward 2/Precincts 1 and 2: John F. Kennedy Middle School, 655 Lexington St. Ward 3/Precinct 1: Douglas MacArthur Elementary School, 494 Lincoln St. Ward 3/Precinct 2: Northeast Elementary School, 70 Putney Ln. Ward 4/Precincts 1 and 2: Fitzgerald Elementary School, 140 Beal Rd. Ward 5/Precincts 1 and 2: Former Bright School at 260 Grove St. Ward 6/Precinct 1: …

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A Week of Key Debates, Endorsements

A look back at what happened over the past week in the U.S. Senate race.

Just a little more than two weeks until the primary election to see which Democrat and Republican will go head to head to fill the U.S. Senate seat left vacant by John Kerry’s appointment to Secretary of State. Monday night, U.S. Congressmen Stephen Lynch (D-South Boston) and Edward Markey (D-Malden) met in their second debate which contained few fireworks. The debate, held at the University of Massachusetts Lowell and sponsored by the college and the Boston Herald, lasted about 45 minutes and touched on a variety of issues, on which the two Democrats mostly agreed. On Wednesday night, it was the Republicans’ turn as they went face to face in the WBZ-TV studios moderated by the station’s Jon Keller. Former U.S. Attorney Michael Sullivan, …

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Lynch, Markey Debate Health Care, Outside Funding

Candidates for U.S. Senate Democratic nomination squared off in Lowell Monday.

U.S. Congressmen Stephen Lynch and Edward Markey met in their second debate Monday ahead of the Democratic U.S. Senate special primary in a contest that contained few fireworks outside of an exchange on health care. The debate, held at the University of Massachusetts Lowell and sponsored by the college and the Boston Herald, lasted about 45 minutes and touched a wide variety of issues on which the two Democrats mostly agreed. Lynch and Markey clashed on their votes on the Affordable Care Act. Markey (D-Malden) voted in favor of the bill that passed in 2010 while Lynch (D-South Boston) was one of few Democrats who opposed it. Markey said voting for the bill was the "proudest vote of my Congressional career." He said there were some areas …

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