Dem Keating reelected in Massachusetts

Democrat William Keating was reelected to his Massachusetts House seat on Tuesday, defeating Republican challenger John Chapman. 

Keating, 62, is a two-term incumbent Democrat. He won Massachusetts’s 9th Congressional District by 56.2 percent.  

{mosads}Chapman, an attorney, former Reagan White House aide and administration official to Mitt Romney, won 43.8 percent of the vote.  

Republicans had hoped to pick up Keating’s seat, as well as Massachusetts’s 6th Congressional District, which was won on Tuesday by Democrat Seth Moulton.  

The two candidates had sparred over national security. Chapman ran a campaign tying Keating to President Obama, and tried to cast Keating as absent on foreign affairs and national security.  

Keating, a member of House Foreign Affairs and Homeland Security committees, had pushed for an amendment on intelligence sharing between federal, state and local law enforcement agencies following the Boston Marathon bombing.  

He also opposed President Obama’s proposal to train moderate Syrian rebels.