Ed Markey leads Gabriel Gomez by 8 points in new The Republican/MassLive.com/CBS 3 Springfield poll

SPRINGFIELD — With just days left before Massachusetts voters head to the polls, Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Edward Markey is leading Republican Gabriel Gomez by eight points, according to a new poll released Saturday night by The Republican/MassLive.com in partnership with CBS 3 Springfield.

The poll, conducted by the Western New England University Polling Institute, found Markey leading Gomez, 49 percent to 41 percent among likely voters, with 9 percent undecided. Markey was boosted by a strong showing among Democrats and among women.

The poll also found what political observers have noted all along – that voters are simply not engaged in this race in the way they were with the 2012 U.S. Senate race between Republican Scott Brown and Democrat Elizabeth Warren.

“I think the campaigns have a much more difficult task in front of them than they would in a normal election cycle getting people out to vote,” said Tim Vercellotti, director of the Polling Institute at Western New England University and a professor of political science.

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