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Fred Barnes / Weekly Standard:
Kirk Can't Vote After Tuesday — GOP lawyers say Paul Kirk will no longer be a senator after election day. — Appointed Senator Paul Kirk will lose his vote in the Senate after Tuesday's election in Massachusetts of a new senator and cannot be the 60th vote for Democratic health care legislation, according to Republican attorneys.
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Joe Lieberman Endorsement Scott Brown Latest Polls Show Widening Lead — Hartford, CT- Joe Lieberman may be close to announcing his suppport for Massachusetts Senate Candidate Scott Brown. Citing the historical Healthcare Reform Bill as the main issue attracting Lieberman to endorse Brown's Campaign.
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
What we're seeing in Massachusetts: week 2 — Here's what we saw on day 1 of our Massachusetts poll: —The electorate is becoming more Democratic. Last weekend we found it at Obama +16 and now we see it at Obama +20. So all the efforts to get the party base more engaged in the election are paying off.
Steve Kornacki:
Latest Coakley Internal: Brown +2 — I've been told reliably that Martha Coakley's internal poll for Friday night showed Republican Scott Brown leading by two points, 47 to 45 percent. Her campaign's three-night average for Friday, Thursday and Wednesday is the same — a 47 to 45 lead for Brown.
Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Lieberman has no plans to endorse in Mass. Senate race — Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) has no plans to make an endorsement in Massachusetts's special election on Tuesday. — A spokesman for the senator shot down rumors that Lieberman would weigh in on the closely-watched special election …
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William Kristol / Weekly Standard:
Will Obama Repudiate Smear Campaign? — Silence is complicity. — So the Massachusetts Democratic Party is alleging, in a mailer, that “1,736 women were raped in Massachusetts in 2008. Scott Brown wants hospitals to turn them all away.” — This is as ridiculous as it is offensive.
Washington Wire:
Bay State Homestretch: What to Watch for on Election Day — Both campaigns in the closely fought Massachusetts Senate race are in high gear today. … Democrat Martha Coakley, who until this month had been considered a shoo-in for the seat that had been held by the late Sen. Edward Kennedy …
Michael O'Brien / The Hill:Sen. Kirk: New Mass. senator will be sworn in ‘as quickly as possible’
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David / Blue Mass. Group:BMG Exclusive: Scott Brown thought maybe Obama was born out of wedlock
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Times of London:
World misled over Himalayan glacier meltdown — A WARNING that climate change will melt most of the Himalayan glaciers by 2035 is likely to be retracted after a series of scientific blunders by the United Nations body that issued it. — Two years ago the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change …
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Gabriel Sherman / New York Magazine:
New York Times Ready to Charge Online Readers — New York Times Chairman Arthur Sulzberger Jr. appears close to announcing that the paper will begin charging for access to its website, according to people familiar with internal deliberations. After a year of sometimes fraught debate inside the paper …
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Bridget Johnson / The Hill:
Bush, Clinton dismiss political statements stemming from quake — Former presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton made the news show rounds Sunday morning to put on a show of unity in the wake of the Haiti earthquake and dismiss controversial partisan statements that have come from pundits in the aftermath.
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Frank Rich / New York Times:
The Great Tea Party Rip-Off — Even given the low bar set by America's bogus conversations about race, the short-lived Harry Reid fracas was a most peculiar nonevent. For all the hyperventilation in cable news land, this supposed racial brawl didn't seem to generate any controversy whatsoever in what is known as the real world.
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Catherine Saint Louis / New York Times:
Creams Offering Lighter Skin May Bring Risks — For years, Allison Ross rubbed in skin-lightening creams with names like Hyprogel and Fair & White. She said she wanted to even out and brighten the tone of her face, neck and hands. Mrs. Ross, 45, who lives in Brooklyn …
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