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Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley won Tuesday's Democratic primary to replace the late senator Edward M. Kennedy (D), making her the favorite to win the seat next month.
NEWTON - State Senator Scott P. Brown, a telegenic triathlete and military lawyer who has won nine consecutive elections since the mid-1980s, won an easy victory last night in the GOP primary for US Senate, launching him on an uphill battle to become the first Republican to represent Massachusetts in the US Senate in 30 years.
Turnout was higher than the average for Massachusetts, but the outcome mirrored that of the commonwealth as a whole.
BOSTON - Attorney General Martha M. Coakley on Tuesday easily won the Democratic primary for the seat of the late Edward M. Kennedy and is on the verge of becoming the first woman elected to the U.S. Senate from Massachusetts.
Tuesday's primaries mark the first time since 1984 Massachusetts voters are casting ballots in a Senate race with no incumbent.
Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley is on the fast track to replace the late Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.). Read more...
Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley has achieved yet one more goal in her slow and methodical quest for the late Sen. Ted Kennedy's Senate seat.
Applause and loud whistles greeted state Sen. Scott Brown, R-Wrentham, last night after winning the Republican primary for U.S. senator from Massachusetts. Brown, who has prided himself on running a down-to-earth, grass-roots campaign to succeed the late Sen. Edward Kennedy, defeated late-to-the-race challenger Jack E. Robinson.
BOSTON, Dec. 8 (UPI) -- Voters in Massachusetts headed to the polls Tuesday to select party candidates to fill the Senate seat held for nearly 50 years by late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy.
Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley picks up her ballot at a polling place in Medford, Mass., Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2009. For the first time in half a century, the state's voters are going to the polls without a Kennedy to choose on the ballot to fill a storied Senate seat. (AP Photo/Josh Reynolds)
BOSTON - Massachusetts had a light turnout for party primaries today as voters took the first step to fill the U.S. Senate seat held for nearly a half century by Edward M. Kennedy.
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