NEW YORK TIMES — The Senate race to replace John Kerry has generated little excitement over the last few months, and Massachusetts officials on Monday underscored just how low the interest level is, predicting that only 37 percent of voters would go to the polls on Tuesday.
That would be a record low in recent times, officials said, falling substantially below the 53 percent who turned out in the last special Senate election, in 2010. Mr. Kerry became secretary of state earlier this year.
Every poll has shown Representative Edward J. Markey, a Democrat, leading his Republican challenger, Gabriel Gomez; the most recent poll, released Monday by the Suffolk University Political Research Center, gave Mr. Markey a 10-point lead.
Mr. Markey’s campaign has been so concerned that voters will take his election for granted that it has resorted to pointing to internal Republican poll numbers to suggest the race is closer than it seems, hoping this will rev up its field workers and keep a steady stream of money flowing in.
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