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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Markey or Gomez: Who Would You Vote for Today?

The two will face off on June 25 in the U.S. Senate special election.

    After months of campaigning we now know who is going head to head in the June 25 special U.S. Senate election. Democratic Congressman Edward Markey (D-Malden) took the Democratic vote in the Tuesday election over fellow Congressman Stephen Lynch (D-South Boston). Political newcomer and former U.S. Navy SEAL Gabriel Gomez of Cohasset came out on top of a field of Republican candidates  - including more seasoned opponents former U.S. Attorney Michael Sullivan and State Rep. Dan Winslow of Norfolk. With a month and a half of campaigning still to come we wanted to stop and ask you this question. If the Special Election were today - who would you vote for right now? Markey or Gomez? Tell us in our comments section below.

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Tyler Jozefowicz

12:18 am on Wednesday, May 22, 2013

Rob C.:I said Gomer has no govt experience, applying for a govt post. As far as EW goes- EW fresh ideas: living wage for workers; just filed " Student Loan Fairness Act"; Banking Committee advocate for prosecutions in Subprime Scandal; EW prior govt experience- Chair of Congressional Oversight Committee (TARP); Asst to President on Consumer Protection matters; Special Advisor to Treasury …   more ›

U.S. Senate Primary Local Results

Here are the Reading numbers from Tuesday's primary.

Out of 17,624 registered voters, 3,186 or 18.1 percent voted Tuesday in the U.S. Senate primary. Take a look at the unofficial Reading results: Democrat Republican

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Town Clerk Says Polls Are Slow

Vote today at RMHS before 8 p.m.

Residents can vote today in the U.S. Senate primary at the Reading Memorial High School field house. Polls are open until 8 p.m. According to Town Clerk Laura Gemme, the polls are "very slow and very calm." There are more poll workers than voters, she said. As of 12 p.m., 1,072 or six percent of residents voted. "Everyone is really enjoying themselves," Gemme told Patch. Check in with us later tonight for the results.

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Patch Interviews US Senate Candidates

We gathered questions from editors across Patch’s coverage area in Massachusetts.

Patch Interviews U.S. Senate Candidates

We gathered questions from editors across Patch’s coverage area in Massachusetts.

Patch editors interviewed each of the candidates running for U.S. Senate in the April 30 special election. We gathered questions from editors across Patch’s coverage area in Massachusetts. The editors asked both broad questions about policy, as well as opinions on more local, regional issues. Click on the links below to read the questions and answers with each candidate… Stephen Lynch Edward Markey Brett Rhyne (write-in candidate) Gabriel Gomez Michael Sullivan Daniel Winslow

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Larry

6:47 pm on Wednesday, May 1, 2013

"@Larry. Who told you it wasn't?" The experts that document every single word written by or about Jefferson. http://www.monticello.org/site/jefferson/those-who-hammer-their-guns-plowsquotation "Earliest known appearance in print: No appearances in print found. Earliest known appearance in print, attributed to Thomas Jefferson: See above. Other attributions: None known. Status: We have not found …   more ›

Hybrids and Voters in Reading

Reading voted for Scott Brown and owns more hybrid cards than the state average.

Reading is green and red: That’s what we found when we compared data from the Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles to the vote in the 2012 U.S. Senate race. You can see the results in the map above: Large circles suggest towns with more hybrid ownership per capita, and the red/blue color suggests which way those towns voted last year. In Reading, 19.5 of every 1,000 vehicles is a hybrid, compared to the state average of 18. Patch’s research suggests the state has a good number of what might be called “green Republican” communities. More than 40 percent of the communities where Republican Scott Brown carried the vote have an above average numbers of hybrids. The data is a nice rebuttal to the national trends of hybrid/GOP separation: …

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