Top Items:
Jessica Van Sack / Boston Herald:
Poll shocker: Scott Brown surges ahead in Senate race — + Recent Articles + Recent Blog Entries + Email + Bio — Riding a wave of opposition to Democratic health-care reform, GOP upstart Scott Brown is leading in the U.S. Senate race, raising the odds of a historic upset that would reverberate …
Discussion:
Commentary, The Strata-Sphere, Gateway Pundit, Steve Kornacki, Another Black Conservative, Jules Crittenden, Townhall.com, Taylor Marsh, Boston Globe, Power Line, Fox News, Pajamas Media, The Confluence, Outside The Beltway, Scared Monkeys, No More Mister Nice Blog, Erick's blog, Ruby Slippers, PoliBlog, The Note, The Lonely Conservative, Politics Daily, NO QUARTER, The Natural Truth, RedState, Sister Toldjah, Ben Smith's Blog, Washington Wire, Blue Mass. Group, The Jawa Report, Michelle Malkin, National Review Online, Hot Air, The Daily Caller, Left Coast Rebel, No Sheeples Here, race42008.com and The Corner on National …
RELATED:
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Massachusetts: ‘Bottom has fallen out’ of Coakley's polls; Dems prepare to explain defeat, protect Obama — Here in Massachusetts, as well as in Washington, a growing sense of gloom is setting in among Democrats about the fortunes of Democratic Senate candidate Martha Coakley.
Discussion:
Commentary, JammieWearingFool, Power Line, Moonbattery, Althouse, Gateway Pundit, No Sheeples Here, Weasel Zippers, Hit & Run and Hot Air
Mickey Kaus / Kausfiles:
How Health Care Reform Could Crash — Poll watcher Sean Trende (if that really is his name) thinks Massachusetts GOP challenger Scott Brown may have peaked too soon. Hmm. Doesn't necessarily look like it. .... Mark Blumenthal has some guidance for reading and reconciling all the Mass. polls …
Roger L Simon / Pajamas Media:
Massachusetts shocker: Brown Up 15% in Pajamas Media/CrossTarget Poll — A new poll taken Thursday evening for Pajamas Media by CrossTarget - an Alexandria VA survey research firm - shows Scott Brown, a Republican, leading Martha Coakley, a Democrat, by 15.4% in Tuesday's special election for the open Massachusetts US Senate seat.
Brian McGrory / Boston Globe:
Race is in a spinout — Martha Coakley made a jaw-dropping declaration earlier this week at the only live televised debate in Boston that she has deigned to do. She said, and I quote, “I've traveled the state and met tremendous people.” — If she did, it was under the cover of darkness, with an assumed name.
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
OK, It's a Toss-Up — Earlier today I tweeted about how there wasn't enough evidence to describe the Massachusetts special election as a “toss-up”, as some other forecasters have done, based on the information available to us at that time. — Well, now there's some new evidence.
Dorothy Rabinowitz / Wall Street Journal:
Martha Coakley's Convictions — The role played by the U.S. Senate candidate in a notorious sex case raises questions about her judgment. — The story of the Amiraults of Massachusetts, and of the prosecution that had turned the lives of this thriving American family to dust, was well known to the world by the year 2001.
Discussion:
The Natural Truth, The Jury Box, Michelle Malkin, Riehl World View, NO QUARTER, Betsy's Page, The Lonely Conservative, RedState and Commentary
Washington Post:
White House nears deal on health care — Gripped by a building sense that its window of opportunity could be closing, the White House on Thursday broke the last major logjam blocking enactment of far-reaching health-care legislation, cutting a deal with organized labor on how to tax high-cost insurance policies.
Michael Cooper / New York Times:3rd-Party Candidate Named Kennedy Could Tip Senate Race in Massachusetts
Jessica Taylor / The Politico:Suffolk poll: Brown up by 4
Discussion:
The Swamp, Boston Herald, The Other McCain, AmSpecBlog, The Daily Caller, Weasel Zippers, CNN and Hot Air
Karl Vick / Washington Post:Polls show race for ‘Kennedy seat’ about even
Discussion:
Steve Kornacki
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Bankers Without a Clue — The official Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission — the group that aims to hold a modern version of the Pecora hearings of the 1930s, whose investigations set the stage for New Deal bank regulation — began taking testimony on Wednesday.
RELATED:
Stephen Grocer / Wall Street Journal:Banks Set for Record Pay
Discussion:
The Huffington Post, Felix Salmon, The Big Picture, Wonk Room, Raw Story, The Politico, The Page, Gawker and Clusterstock
David Axelrod / Washington Post:
What Karl Rove got wrong on the U.S. deficit — For its Topic A feature last Sunday, The Post invited a panel of political operatives to offer their advice to the Democratic Party on strategy for 2010 [Sunday Opinion, Jan. 10]. Improbably, one of the operatives asked was Karl Rove …
Discussion:
msnbc.com, Think Progress, The Hill, Washington Monthly, The Daily Dish, The Foundry, Politics Daily, Raw Story, The Politico, The Swamp, TPM LiveWire and The Page
Ezra Klein:
Cynicism on the excise tax — “Unions get a special two-year exclusion from the [excise] tax,” comments Megan McArdle. “Presumably, the unions plan to go back and get their exclusion extended every few years.” Tyler Cowen agrees with her, commenting that this will “increase the rate of unionization …
RELATED:
Kim Masters / The Daily Beast:
Conan's Exit Confirmed — Blogs and Stories — The late-night nightmare is almost over. Conan O'Brien is leaving NBC and receiving a payout—and he'll be free to appear on another network before his contract expires, Kim Masters reports. — The NBC-Leno-Conan war is close to ending, according to a knowledgeable source.
RELATED:
Andy Barr / The Politico:
Rush ‘meant’ what he said about Haiti — Rush Limbaugh is not backing down from his claim that President Barack Obama is trying to score political points off the earthquake in Haiti. — Challenged by a caller during his show Thursday, Limbaugh said: “If I said it, I meant to say it …
RELATED:
David Brooks / New York Times:
The Underlying Tragedy — On Oct. 17, 1989, a major earthquake with a magnitude of 7.0 struck the Bay Area in Northern California. Sixty-three people were killed. This week, a major earthquake, also measuring a magnitude of 7.0, struck near Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
The Politico:
‘Very angry’ Dem sounds alarm — Democrats moved closer to a final deal on health care reform Thursday — and for some vulnerable members, the end can't come soon enough. — In an emotional talk with other Democrats on the Ways and Means Committee this week, North Dakota Rep. Earl Pomeroy …
New York Times:
Pentagon Report on Fort Hood Shooting Details Failures — WASHINGTON — The military's defenses against threats from inside its own ranks are outdated and ineffective, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said on Monday as he described the findings of an Army review of the Nov. 5 shooting spree at Fort Hood, Texas.
Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post:
One year out: President Obama's fall — What went wrong? A year ago, he was king of the world. Now President Obama's approval rating, according to CBS, has dropped to 46 percent — and his disapproval rating is the highest ever recorded by Gallup at the beginning of an (elected) president's second year.
Kathryn Jean Lopez / The Corner on National …:
Testing the Waters: Santorum Makes It Official — By: Kathryn Jean Lopez — In a letter that went in the mail yesterday to his PAC, the America's Foundation, Rick Santorum talks about his concerns about Barack Obama's first year of “Change we can't afford.”
Charlie Cook / National Journal Online:
Colossal Miscalculation On Health Care — OBAMA AND HILL DEMOCRATS SHOULD HAVE FOCUSED MUCH MORE ON THE ECONOMY. — Honorable and intelligent people can disagree over the substance and details of what President Obama and congressional Democrats are trying to do on health care reform and climate change.
Discussion:
QandO
Senior Data Journalist, NY — 
Manager - Publishing Editorial, Manila — 
Oil Reporter, Singapore — 
Newsperson - State Govt. & Politics, CA — 
Business Reporter, SC — 
State Government Reporter, WA — 
Climate Crisis Columnist — 
Multimedia Journalist, CA — 
Community Engagement Mgr., DC — 
Senior California Politics Reporter, CA — 
Staff Writer - Business, NY — 
Team Editor - Opinion, ON — 
Assistant Correspondent, DC — 
Climate & Weather Reporter, MN — 
Senior Tech Editor, Remote US — 
Lead Business Reporter, TN — 
Managing Editor, WA — 
Private Credit Reporter, NY — 
Trending News Reporter, TX — 
City Correspondent, London — 
Legislative Reporter, CA — 
Reporter, PA — 
Visual Editor, Remote — 
Staff Writer, MI — 
Senior Political Reporter, DC — 
California Playbook Writer, CA — 
National Investigative Reporter, NY — 
Business & Gaming Reporter, NV — 
Coastal Climate Reporter, SC — 
Environment & Energy Reporter, CT — 
Coordinating Editor, OR — 
Editor, Remote US — 
Business Reporter, WA — 
Editor-in-Chief, AZ — 
