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Democrat Wins Special Election for Kerry’s Senate Seat
BOSTON — Representative Edward J. Markey, a Democrat who has toiled for almost 40 years in the House in both the majority and minority, won a promotion to the Senate on Tuesday in a sweeping victory over Gabriel Gomez, a Republican who has never served in elective office.
He cast himself as a “new kind of Republican” who supported gay marriage, expanded background checks for gun purchases and a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants. But he could not convince enough Massachusetts voters that he would vote independently of the national Republican Party.
In other words Gabriel Gomez couldn't distance himself enough from the Republican Circus in DC.
Mr. Markey’s election does not change the balance of power in the Senate, where Democrats have 54 votes and Republicans have 46. But Democratic control had already slipped by one earlier this month after Frank R. Lautenberg of New Jersey died and was replaced by an interim Republican.