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insidemedford.com:
Brown Has 9.6% Lead in New Poll — Brown supporters focused most on pocketbook issues, Coakley supporters on healthcare reform, undecided voters split — A poll conducted by the Merriman River Group (MRG) and InsideMedford.com indicates that Scott Brown leads Martha Coakley 50.8% …
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American Conservative …, American Power, Washington Post, The Strata-Sphere, The Lonely Conservative and Hot Air
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CNN:
Sources: Obama advisers believe Coakley will lose — Washington (CNN) - Multiple advisers to President Obama have privately told party officials that they believe Democrat Martha Coakley is going to lose Tuesday's special election to fill the Massachusetts Senate seat held by the late Ted Kennedy …
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Gateway Pundit, The Political Carnival, The Impolitic, Mouth of the Potomac, The Strata-Sphere and Pajamas Media
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 …
The Politico:
Mass. pols vie to channel voters' anger — BOSTON - The two candidates running in the Senate campaign here that could reshape the balance of power in Washington both sought Sunday to harness the populist fervor that has unexpectedly turned the contest into a nail-biter.
Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Obama says Mass. voters face stark choice in Tuesday's special election
Obama says Mass. voters face stark choice in Tuesday's special election
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Ben Smith's Blog
Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Brown Campaign Now Says “He Doesn't Believe” …
Brown Campaign Now Says “He Doesn't Believe” …
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Wonkette, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, Blue Mass. Group, Washington Monthly and Taylor Marsh
William Kristol / Weekly Standard:
Will Obama Repudiate Smear Campaign?
Will Obama Repudiate Smear Campaign?
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Boston Herald, The Natural Truth, Swampland, The Caucus, Jules Crittenden, Real Clear Politics and Alan Colmes' Liberaland
Jules Crittenden:
Political Prescience Hurtfully Poo-Poo'd
Political Prescience Hurtfully Poo-Poo'd
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sisu, Don Surber, Riehl World View, Hot Air, neo-neocon, Orange County Register and Boston Globe
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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ABCNEWS, Flopping Aces, Townhall.com, Hot Air, Clusterstock, QandO, PoliBlog, neo-neocon, Ben Smith's Blog, Wake up America, TalkLeft, The Strata-Sphere, Don Surber and New York Times
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Glenn Reynolds / Instapundit:
A REPORT FROM THE SCOTT BROWN RALLY AT WORCESTER: “It's an absolute mob scene. The police have closed off the streets. It's mind blowing. The hall is already full, and it holds 3,000 people. There may be another 1,000 people outside.” — Meanwhile, reader Sean Fitzpatrick writes: “Pictures don't do justice.
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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The Lonely Conservative, Taylor Marsh, Clusterstock, Pajamas Media, NewsBusters.org and AmSpecBlog
Jeffrey Young / The Hill:
McConnell: Healthcare will be ‘toxic’ for Democrats in 2010, '12
McConnell: Healthcare will be ‘toxic’ for Democrats in 2010, '12
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Think Progress
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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New York Post:
Dave Paterson's Latina lovely — Gov gets cozy with gal in eatery — Gov. Paterson was spotted nuzzling, neck-kissing and cooing like a smitten schoolboy with a pretty young woman — not his wife — in a New Jersey steakhouse yesterday afternoon, The Post has learned.
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Michael Calderone's Blog
Guardian:
US accused of annexing airport — Priority landing for Americans forces flights carrying emergency supplies to divert to Dominican Republic — The US military's takeover of emergency operations in Haiti has triggered a diplomatic row with countries and aid agencies furious at having flights redirected.
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Online NewsHour
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Washington Post:
Poll shows growing disappointment, polarization over Obama's performance — A year into his presidency, President Obama faces a polarized nation and souring public assessments of his efforts to change Washington, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.
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Gary Langer / ABCNEWS:
President Obama at One Year: Lower Ratings, Higher Doubts
President Obama at One Year: Lower Ratings, Higher Doubts
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Washington Monthly
David G. Savage / Los Angeles Times:
Gay marriage supporters fear Supreme Court's ruling was an omen — When justices intervened to stop proceedings from airing online, some saw sympathy for supporters of Proposition 8 - and a lack of faith in the district judge who will first decide the measure's fate.
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 …
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
“My Vote For Brown Isn't A Vote Against Obama” Ctd — A reader writes: … I'll try. First off, there's no compromise with the current GOP. They make Gingrich look like Pope John XXIII. If they got back majorities in the Congress, there will be no debt reduction …
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Liberal Values
Paul Krugman:
Brown, Coakley, And the Outrage Gap — About Paul Krugman — Paul Krugman is an Op-Ed columnist for The New York Times. — Comments of the Moment
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JammieWearingFool
Howard Fineman / Newsweek:
Roger Ailes is the real head of the GOP. — From the magazine issue dated Jan 25, 2010 — I've been trying to answer this question: does the Republican Party have a “leader”? Surely it's not Michael Steele, the loose-lipped chairman of the RNC. Not Mitch McConnell …
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Matthew Yglesias
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