Today: The Massachusetts Special Senate Election Today is the special election for Senate in Massachusetts. Republican Scott Brown is widely viewed as the frontrunner to pick up the Senate seat formerly held for 47 years by Democratic icon Ted Kennedy — which would deprive Democrats of their 60-seat supermajority –Â with Democrat Martha Coakley hoping for the state’s Democratic get-out-the-vote efforts to put her over the finish line. The polls will close at 8 p.m. ET.
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