New Mexico Sen. Jeff Bingaman donated $2,000 to help the Democratic candidate in a Massachusetts Senate special election to be held on January 19. The special election to fill the seat of the Senator Ted Kennedy after his death on August 25, 2009 is between Martha Coakley, the Democrat, Scott Brown, a Republican, and Joseph Kennedy, an independent with no relation to the late Senator Kennedy.
The polling in the race is closer than expected, with the last two independent polls putting the race at single digits. Coakley had led some polls by as much as 31 percent in November.