Can Republicans win another special election for Senate in Massachusetts? More than three years after Scott Brown won Ted Kennedy’s old seat in an upset, fellow Republican Gabriel Gomez may have a shot of doing the same. The Cook Political Report has moved Gomez’s race against Democratic congressman Ed Markey from “leaning Democrat” to “toss up” in its latest analysis of this month’s special election for John Kerry’s former seat.

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