Markey, Gomez feud over security

Rep. Ed Markey hasn't yet won the Massachusetts special election for the open Senate seat, but some of his colleagues are already weighing in on his committee seats. Twenty Democrats penned a letter to their colleagues endorsing Rep. Peter DeFazio ...

Republican Gabriel Gomez has released a new ad in the Massachusetts Senate special election, a negative spot that contrasts Gomez as "something new" against his Democratic opponent Rep. Edward Markey, whom the ad dubs "Dirty Ed Markey." "Negative ...

Worries over Obamacare helped Republican Scott Brown upset Democrat Martha Coakley in a special Senate election in Massachusetts in 2010. Now the trio of scandals currently plaguing the White House have some thinking of a repeat for GOP nominee ...

Physicist Ernest Moniz is a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Moniz replaces Steven Chu, who served as energy secretary in Obama's first term. Moniz was an energy undersecretary in the Clinton administration. Republican Senator Lindsey ...

In the Massachusetts Senate race, underdog Gabriel Gomez enlisted the help Monday of GOP maverick-in-chief John McCain. There's a reason he called on McCain and not, say, Newt Gingrich. At a campaign rally for Republican Senate candidate Gabriel ...

Another public poll, this one from Public Policy Polling, shows a tight race for Senate in Massachusetts. But what is more interesting is what the Democratic firm does not discuss in its very brief memo about the June 25

The special Senate election between Massachusetts Congressman Ed Markey and private equity investor Gabriel Gomez took a familiar turn for the scandalous on Thursday, after Gomez's 2005 tax records surfaced in a front-page Boston Globe story about ...

Single-digit polling of the Massachusetts special election has some Democrats spooked and Republicans salivating at the prospect of 2010 repeat, when Scott Brown exacted an upset Democrats won't long forget — and outside groups on both sides are ...

In five-and-a-half weeks,Massachusettsvoters will elect their next senator. The special election for the seat once held by Secretary of State John Kerry is so far shaping up to be a competitive contest between Rep. Ed Markey (D) and businessman and ...