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BOSTON (MyFoxBoston.com/AP) - Democrat Martha Coakley and Republican Charlie Baker were on the hunt for votes as the race for Massachusetts governor enters its final week of campaigning before the Nov. 4 election.

Big name national Democrats have already given her the nod, but Saturday Coakley got a major endorsement from Boston Mayor Marty Walsh in front of a room full of local 103 Union supporters.

"It's gonna come down to fields," Walsh said. "Who can get the votes out on election day is gonna win the election on the fourth."

It's good timing as the latest Boston Globe poll shows Coakley trailing Baker by 9 points and Baker is up to 45 percent to her 36 percent.

"I've done this before, we really don't pay attention to polls. We're focused on what we're seeing on the ground, frankly we think those polls are inaccurate. Our polls on everything we see says it's a close race. We know that," Coakley said.

But critics are quick to point out that the Globe endorsed Coakley in her failed bid for the US Senate against Scott Brown in 2010.

With 10 days to the upcoming election, it's a race to the finish line and a massive push for votes. Coakley and Baker plan to crisscross the state, shaking hands and knocking on doors in a race that has remained close between the two.

But independents told FOX 25's Crystal Haynes that they remain in it to win it, and Evan Falchuck is adding a court date to his busy campaign calendar.

On Monday, a judge will hear his lawsuit against New England Cable News, the Worcester Telegram & Gazette as well as the Worcester Chamber of Commerce for allegedly dis-inviting him from a scheduled debate because of his low standing in the polls.

The Globe poll put Falchuk at just 3 percent and both Jeff McCormick and Scott Lively got just 2.

"In our political process today, what happens is people feel tuned out and turned off because they don't hear an actual meaningful dialogue and instead it's reduced to soundbites and a horse race that has to change. That's why I need to be in those debates. It's something that's the whole purpose to this campaign to get out there and raise issues that maybe other people don't want to talk about, bring them to the floor, challenge the establishment," Falchuck said.

McCormick, also a candidate, said, "You hope what you're talking about, which are very real solutions that I've derived from my experience; you hope that actually makes its way into the direction of the Commonwealth."

Analysts say the latest poll could energize both the Democrats and Republicans to get out and vote in mid-term elections that usually see a lackluster turnout.