Live blog of Mass. Democratic Senate debate
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The six Democrats vying for their party’s 2012 US Senate nomination, including, for the first time, campaign newcomer Elizabeth Warren, will meet tonight for a debate at the University of Massachusetts Lowell.
While the debate will not be televised, Boston.com and “Political Intelligence’’ will offer a story about the debate, a link to view a livestream of the proceedings, plus a live blog of the back-and-forth.
Check back at 7 p.m. EDT for full coverage. You can view the livestream here.
The debate comes as a poll by UMass-Lowell and the Boston Herald, which are also serving as the event’s co-sponsors, show that Warren and the Republican incumbent, Senator Scott Brown, are in a statistical tie in the early going.
Brown got 41 percent support, while Warren, a Harvard Law School professor who jumped into the nomination campaign last month, received 38 percent. A sizable 21 percent of the 1,0005 registered voters surveyed said they had no preference or preferred someone else.
The debate will offer the first collective chance for the other Democrats in the field to chip away at Warren.
City Year cofounder Alan Khazei, Somerville activist Bob Massie, state Representative Thomas Conroy, Salem immigration attorney Marisa DeFranco, and Newton engineer Herb Robinson have been complaining that state and national Democrats have ignored their labors to support Warren, a first-time political candidate despite being a former Obama administration official.
A seventh candidate, Newton Mayor Setti Warren, dropped out of the campaign last week.
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