Want the scoop on hot races around the country? Get the digest emailed to you each weekday morning. Sign up here. Leading Off: ' MA-Sen: Both Democrats in the Massachusetts Senate special election have just gone on the air for the first time, with The Fix reporting that Ed Markey is spending $260K on his initial run versus $217K for Stephen Lynch. Markey's ad features a clip of actor and NRA spokesman Charlton Heston lofting a long gun and bellowing "from my cold dead hands"'a lead-in to Markey discussing his efforts to ban the importation of Chinese assault weapons and to promote "tougher gun laws" with President Obama. This is now the second Democratic primary this year where we've seen guns show up in television advertising, and where a Democrat has openly taken on the NRA (the other being IL-02's Robin Kelly). Presumably, Markey's polls show that this is an issue which moves voters, just as it did for Kelly.
Lynch, meanwhile, goes a more boring and predictable route, touting his humble upbringing and years spent as an ironworker. It's a decidedly non-partisan message that also offers a small confirmation about what Lynch thinks his path to victory must be: "In Congress," he says, "I've learned that doing what's right means knowing when to compromise and when to stand firm." That word there, "compromise," is a nod to the disaffected independent voters whom he'll need in order to have a shot at winning. But those aren't the kind of people who turn out in droves in a special election primary.
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