The special Senate election between Massachusetts Congressman Ed Markey and businessman 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 the candidate's mega-home.
On Tuesday evening, longtime congressman Ed Markey handily won the Democratic primary for a special election that'll decide who fills Secretary of State John Kerry's former Senate seat.
On a day when confusion reigned, anonymous sourcing could have come from one of dozens of organizations and agencies and elected officials' offices involved in some part of the Boston Marathon bombin investigation. Here's the scope of what "law enforcement sources" look like in this case.
The former Massachusetts senator, who lost his seat to Elizabeth Warren in November, has no plans to run for Senate again — but he could still be eyeing the governor's mansion, according to an interview he gave to Boston's Fox affiliate.
A (possibly too) thorough investigation reveals that the former Mitt Romney aid and possible Senate candidate may have been playing a literally watered-down, Romney-friendly version of the (possibly too) popular drinking game. Sorry, bros.
Winslow, a former lawyer for Mitt Romney with strong conservative credentials, appears to be the GOP's great hope to come out of nowhere and steal a spot in the Senate, much like Brown did in 2010.
While disappointing Republicans eager for him to jump in at the last-minute to fill John Kerry's vacant Senate seat, Tagg Romney left open the door for a future political run — just not right now.
The CBS station in Boston is reporting that Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick has selected William "Mo" Cowan to occupy Senator John Kerry's seat once Kerry is sworn in as Secretary of State today. So who is the second black Senator?
The now former Senator got a little carried away responding to critics on Twitter over the weekend, which shouldn't be a big deal, but apparently it is when you're expected to run for a vacant Senate seat and now everyone is taking his "whatevers" so seriously.
Is Scott Brown running for John Kerry's old Senate seat? No one knows, yet. But we do know Brown is feeling a little thin skinned lately, and that he isn't getting along with people being mean to him on the internet. Except you, Matt: you're great.
His instant comeback — and the Republicans' chance to pick up a Senate seat as soon as this spring — has been upended now that Brown appears to be weighing a run not just to fill Kerry's Senate seat but to become the next governor of Massachusetts.
Bobcats aren't known for attacking humans, but that's no comfort to a Massachusetts resident who killed a bobcat with his shotgun after it attacked him in his garage.
Newly retired Representative Barney Frank confirmed Friday morning his interest in temporarily filling John Kerry's soon-to-be abandoned Senate Seat — and said that he'd told Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick "I would now like, frankly, to do that."
Elizabeth Warren is in, and Scott Brown wants back in, but someone needs to step in for Kerry when he takes over for Hillary Clinton — and then there's going to be a special election. Here's a field guide as the 113th Congress convenes.
Much like the nasty fight he started over Elizabeth Warren's Native American heritage, Brown is already accusing a potential opponent of exaggerating where he comes from.
Scott Brown will soon be out of a job, and it's no real secret that he will become the leading contender — even with new competition — in a special election to fill John Kerry's soon-to-be vacant Senate seat. So why is he making all this stuff up?
In the (likely) event Kerry is picked to head Foggy Bottom, Massachusetts would hold a special election late next spring or early summer. We dissect the contenders — and their odds.
The actor and newly celebrated director traveled to Washington and met with Senator John Kerry and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Wednesday, sending the Internet into a fit of speculation that he might be pushing for Kerry's seat.
Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren was officially named to the Senate Banking Committee, and now anyone who is a Warren fan — or just a fan of Gordon Gekko looking more like the Geicho gecko — is officially excited to see what she does next.
Those expecting to see another night of on-stage fireworks between Massachusetts Senatorial candidates Scott Brown and Elizabeth Warren are out of luck.
Massachusetts Sen. Scott Brown says he doesn't actually care whether Republicans win control of the Senate this year, telling ABC News' Jonathan Karl, "For me it doesn't really matter who's in charge."
Mitt Romney didn't stay in Massachusetts very much while he was governor, according to a new investigation by the New York Times.
Scott Brown and Elizabeth Warren met in Springfield, Mass. for the third of four debates on Wednesday night, and for once, they weren't too mean to each other.
Sen. Scott Brown had a hard time hiding his contempt for challenger Elizabeth Warren at their second debate in Lowell, Massachusetts on Monday evening.
Today in Poll Watch: Hey, it looks like this race might be tight again -- Romney's lead is growing among independents, and Elizabeth Warren's ahead in Massachusetts.
In today's Poll Watch: Things aren't looking good for Mitt Romney in Ohio, President Obama's also up in Florida, and the Massachusetts Senate race is tied.
Sen. Scott Brown's staff find it so insensitive that his challenger, Elizabeth Warren, may have mislead people about having Native American heritage that they showed up at one of her campaign rallies to express their outrage with war whoops and tomahawk chops.
Today in Ad Watch: Scott Brown takes on Elizabeth Warren's family tree, President Obama mocks Mitt Romney's "47 percent" tape, and Romney says Obama can't even control Nancy Pelosi.
Romney's take on the 47 percent is is showing up in favorability numbers, the tracking polls are tight, more Wisconsin polls show the state leaning towards Obama, and a poll shows Scott Brown up in what would be a switcheroo for the Massachusetts Senate race. Here's our guide to today's polls and why they matter.
Massachusetts Sen. Scott Brown has a very important date tonight.
In the latest swing state polls, Obama is up by 8 in Virginia and five in Michigan, and Romey leads by 2 in Colorado and 1 in Florida. While in the Massachusetts Senate, Elizabeth Warren keeps her lead. Here's our guide to today's polls and why they matter.
Just days after criticizing Elizabeth Warren for mud-slinging, Senator Scott Brown's reelection campaign is reportedly pushing a video from a conservative radio show host who tricked Elizabeth Warren into signing a Native American cookbook.
Today in Ad Watch: Birthers get their very own TV ad, while a pro-President Obama group takes an Olympic shot at Mitt Romney. Plus: Allen West shows his caring side, and Elizabeth Warren says she's fighting for consumers.
One of the funny things about Obamacare roots in the health care reform Mitt Romney enacted while governor of Massachusetts is that Romney has already had to defend himself against all the attacks President Obama is now facing.
Mitt Romney declined to say Tuesday whether he would waive his salary as president as he did in Massachusetts as governor, but he did offer up hints at another tweak to the chief executive's pay: performance bonuses.
Mitt Romney has said if Republicans don't get more popular among Latinos, they're "doomed." So far, he's still not too popular.
Every time Mitt Romney has run for office, his Democratic opponent has made a big deal about his career at Bain Capital.
Google Alerts didn't exist in 1997, but is it really possible Massachusetts Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren didn't know Harvard Law School was calling her the "first woman of color" it hired?
In today's Ad Watch: President Obama's campaign celebrates his decision to support gay marriage, Massachusetts Republicans attack Elizabeth Warren's ancestry, and a superPAC defends Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker.
The general election has begun! And so has the onslaught of campaign ads. In today's Ad Watch: How national politics affect state races. Scott Brown forgets to mention he's Republican, Jon Tester gets tied to Obama, and Scott Walker is accused of "Republican class warfare."
Some conservatives argue that it's liberals who are the true racists.
Mitt Romney is feeling so good about the 10 states voting today that he and his wife are flying home to Boston. We'll be liveblogging the returns as soon as results start coming in.
Mitt Romney has been attacking Rick Santorum for growing the government for weeks, but in 2002, back when Santorum was in Congress making those earmarks, Romney was bragging how good he was at securing them.
Shortly before leaving the governor's office in Massachusetts, Mitt Romney's administration spent nearly $100,000 of state money to purge computer and email records, in an unprecedented attempt to wipe out the paper trail of tenure.
Retiring Massachusetts congressman Barney Frank hasn't snarked his last (he's still in office for another year after all) but we're already starting to miss him.
With Massachusetts' Barney Frank announcing he won't run for reelection to Congress next year, America will soon lose one of its few elected officials both willing and able to say rude (and often funny) things on camera.
Heckled at a campaign meeting in Brockton, Massachusetts on Wednesday night, Elizabeth Warren managed to stay cool and even give her audience-based antagonist some answers, until he called her a "socialist whore."
Public Policy Poling finds the Democrat is basically dead even with Brown
Former White House adviser to challenge Scott Brown
The challenge to Scott Brown moves forward
Rumors of her potential candidacy are getting hotter and hotter
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