Turnout in today’s Democratic primary for the Massachusetts special election for Senate — tantamount to election for Ted Kennedy’s seat, in this deep-blue state — is turning out to be astonishingly low.
The Boston Globe reports that as of 3 p.m. ET, only 35,000 people had voted in Boston, less than 10% of the city’s registered voters.
The Boston Herald speculates that the lower turnout could possibly benefit Rep. Mike Capuano, who is widely seen as the underdog against state Attorney General Martha Coakley. For what it’s worth, Capuano’s home town of Somerville, where he served as mayor before his election to Congress in 1988, is having a relatively higher turnout — at 1 p.m., it was a whopping 12.5 percent.
