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3:25 PM ET, January 17, 2010

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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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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.
Mike Allen / The Politico:
Charlie Cook: Brown now favored  —  Hours before President Barack Obama's appearance with the Democratic candidate in the Massachusetts Senate race, political handicapper Charlie Cook sent an unusual weekend update to his Cook Political Report subscribers saying that Scott Brown, the Republican, is now a slight favorite.
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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.
Discussion: Liberal Values and RedState
Felicia Sonmez / Hotline On Call:
Brown Rallies A Revitalized GOP  —  WEST SPRINGFIELD, MA — State Sen. Scott Brown (R) brought his surging campaign to this western MA town this a.m., rallying a crowd of GOPers more energized than many in attendance could remember.  —  Standing on a platform in front of the truck …
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 …
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.
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
Discussion: Raw Story and CBS News
Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Sen. Kirk: New Mass. senator will be sworn in ‘as quickly as possible’
Discussion: National Review
Joan Vennochi / Boston Globe:
Blame Beacon Hill
Discussion: PostPartisan
Jonathan Martin / The Politico:
Enthusiasm gap in Massachusetts
Dan Roem / Hotline On Call:
MA SEN Shows Similarities To '09 VA GOV
Discussion: TPMDC
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.
Discussion: The Moderate Voice and theblogprof
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Washington Post:
Poll shows growing disappointment, polarization over Obama's performance
Gary Langer / ABCNEWS:
President Obama at One Year: Lower Ratings, Higher Doubts
Discussion: Washington Monthly
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 …
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 …
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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Howard Fineman / Newsweek:
Roger Ailes is the real head of the GOP.
Discussion: Matthew Yglesias
Barack Obama / Newsweek:
Why Haiti Matters  —  In the tragic aftermath of Haiti's 7.0 earthquake, images of the disaster break our hearts and remind us of the fragility of life.  What America must do now—and why.  —  From the magazine issue dated Jan 25, 2010  —  In the last week, we have been deeply moved …
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Clark Hoyt / New York Times:
The Sources' Stake in the News  —  WHEN The Times interviewed Michael Chertoff about airport security after the underwear bomber tried to blow up a passenger jet on Christmas Day, he said full-body scanners should be deployed at airports.  Chertoff, the former secretary of homeland security …
 
 
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