Kennedy leads Markey ahead of Massachusetts Senate primary: polls
Rep. Joe Kennedy (D-Mass.) leads Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) in two new polls ahead of Massachusetts contested Senate primary. An Emerson College survey released on Wednesday shows Kennedy with 58 percent support and Markey at 42 percent support. That lead falls well outside the poll's margin of error of plus or minus 3.5 percentage points.
However, 60 percent of voters in the poll said they "might change their mind" before the September primary.
“Markey has a lot of work to do this summer, especially in the Boston area where Kennedy holds a 30 point lead," Emerson College polling director Spencer Kimball said in a statement.
Meanwhile, a separate University of Massachusetts-Lowell poll released on Thursday showed a narrower gap between the two, with Kennedy leading by just two points at 44 percent and Markey at 42 percent, well within the margin of error of plus or minus 7.8 percentage points.
The same poll showed Kennedy with a 49 percent favorability rating and Markey at a 45 percent favorability rating. Kennedy also leads Markey in fundraising with $6.6 million in the bank compared to Markey's $4.4 million cash on hand, according to FEC filings.
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/496783-kennedy-leads-markey-ahead-of-massachusetts-senate-primary-polls
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chance to become something more than a dilettante at one of the resume items he's ticked off. I have a major objection to using a congressional seat that way and even more to rewarding it with a senate seat.
Interestingly, to me, I was offended by talk of "America's royal family" long before Kennedy was assassinated when I was 11-1/2. Makes me wonder if there wasn't a past life. 
for MA IF Warren is picked as VP. She resign as soon as Biden picks her. Baker replaces her with a Rethug, BUT there will a new election in November 2020, which the loser (or not even the loser if one drops out to run for the new vavcancy in November) of Kennedy and Markey can run for and win in a cakewalk.
Losing Warren for what's left of this Congress is meaningless, as we do not have the ability to stop shit right now anyway. Come January 2021, you would have Markey and Kennedy as the 2 MA Dem Senators, and Warren (who unites both wings of the party and polls well with A-A's) as VP.
Just a thought.
here is the full plan laid out
Vice President Warren? It can happen. Here's how:
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/3/5/1924805/-Vice-President-Warren-It-can-happen-Here-s-how
I’ve read a bunch of people assuming that Elizabeth Warren can’t be Vice President, or be in the next President’s cabinet, because she’d be giving up a Senate seat to the GOP after Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker appoints a Republican. I’m here to tell you that it ain’t necessarily so. The mechanism is fairly simple — she can resign this year and be replaced this year.
According to the National Conference of State Legislatures (www.ncsl.org/...), Massachusetts is one of 14 states which replace their Senators via a special election. Massachusetts law — M.G.L.A. 54 §140 — says this: 145-160 days after vacancy occurs. If a vacancy occurs after April 10 but on or before the 70th day before the regular state primary, the office shall appear on the regular state primary ballot. If a vacancy occurs after that time, the office shall appear on the state election ballot that November.
Governor Baker could appoint a Republican upon her resignation, but in the mechanism above, there are two options: If she resigns between today and April 9, there would be a special election some time between July 28 and September 16. If she resigns between April 10 and June 23, her seat would be up for a special election held on Election Day to fill the rest of the term. In either case, the winner of the election would be sworn in immediately.
Warren’s resignation also solves a problem. Massachusetts is enduring a massively pointless primary fight between two strong Democrats — Incumbent Senator Ed Markey and Congressman Joseph Kennedy III. If Warren resigns, Kennedy can simply move over and run for this other seat, and everybody’s happy. Whoever Baker appoints would be a serious underdog to Rep. Kennedy. And it’s not like there’s a lot going to get done that Warren would be able to stop in the Senate the rest of 2020. The Senate has done virtually nothing but confirm judges the whole term.
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Massachusetts law dictates an election be held within 145-160 days of a Senatorial vacancy
https://www.ncsl.org/research/elections-and-campaigns/vacancies-in-the-united-states-senate.aspx
https://malegislature.gov/laws/generallaws/parti/titleviii/chapter54/section140
Section 140. (a) Upon failure to choose a senator or representative in congress or upon creation of a vacancy in that office, the governor shall immediately cause precepts to be issued to the aldermen in every city and the selectmen in every town in the district, directing them to call an election on the day appointed in the precepts for the election of such senator or representative. The day so appointed shall not be more than 160 nor less than 145 days after the date that a vacancy is created or a failure to choose occurs. Filing a letter of resignation creates a vacancy under this section, even if the resignation is not effective until some later time, but the date of the election to fill a vacancy under this section shall be after the resignation is effective.
(b) If a vacancy under this section is created after February 1 of an even-numbered year, the governor shall not issue the precepts required by subsection (a), except as subsection (c) provides for a vacancy for senator.
(c) If a vacancy is created for senator in congress after April 10 of an even-numbered year, the governor shall issue precepts under this section, unless section 152 requires that office to appear on the biennial state election ballot in that year. If this section prevents issuance of precepts for senator, the office shall appear on the biennial state election ballot in that year. If a vacancy for senator is created after April 10 of an even-numbered year, but on or before the seventieth day preceding the regular state primary, the precepts shall appoint the day of the regular state primary and the biennial state election for holding the special primary and special election required by this section.
(d) If at the time a senator or representative in congress is elected at the biennial state election, there exists a vacancy in that office, the senator or representative shall also be deemed to have been elected to serve out that vacancy.
(e) A senator elected to fill a vacancy under this section shall serve for the remainder of the unexpired term.
(f) Upon failure to choose a senator in congress or upon a vacancy in that office, the governor shall make a temporary appointment to fill the vacancy; provided, however, that the person so appointed shall serve until the election and qualification of the person duly elected to fill the vacancy pursuant to subsection (a) or (c).
Also reminds me of the old joke when Bobby and Ted were Senators.
MA was the only state with three Senators.