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Felicia Sonmez / Hotline On Call:
After Obama Rally, Dems Pin Blame On Bush — As audience members streamed out of Pres. Obama's rally on behalf of AG Martha Coakley (D) here tonight, the consensus was that the fault for Coakley's now-floundering MA SEN bid lies with one person — George W. Bush.
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Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Massachusetts Senate Poll — Scott Brown leads Martha Coakley 51-46 in our final Massachusetts Senate poll, an advantage that is within the margin of error for the poll. — Over the last week Brown has continued his dominance with independents and increased his ability to win over Obama voters …
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% …
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
538 Still Rates Massachusetts as Toss-up — Please don't be too enthralled with/scared by the specific numbers below. They're based a number of assumptions which may not be valid. However, I agree with the characterization that the model comes to, which is that the Massachusetts special election …
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 …
Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
Last-minute TV ad buys raise the stakes in Massachusetts Senate race — Just how big are the stakes in the Massachusetts Senate race? Independent and party groups were set to spend nearly $5 million on television ads in the final weeks leading up to Tuesday's special election between state …
Boston Globe:Pulling out all the stops — Obama, in Hub, says he needs Coakley …
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Glenn Reynolds / Instapundit:A REPORT FROM THE SCOTT BROWN RALLY AT WORCESTER: “It's an absolute mob scene.
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Washington Post:His health-care agenda at risk, Obama stumps in Massachusetts
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Mike Allen / The Politico:Charlie Cook: Brown now favored
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Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:Brown Campaign Now Says “He Doesn't Believe” …
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
What Didn't Happen — Lately many people have been second-guessing the Obama administration's political strategy. The conventional wisdom seems to be that President Obama tried to do too much — in particular, that he should have put health care on one side and focused on the economy. — I disagree.
CNN:
Taliban attack in downtown Kabul — Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) — An attack in which the Taliban claimed to have infiltrated key government sites in central Kabul killed five people on Monday morning, hospital officials said. — Thirty-eight other people were injured, said Dr. Kabir Amiri, head of Kabul hospitals.
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Patricia Cohen / New York Times:
Professor Is a Label That Leans to the Left — The overwhelmingly liberal tilt of university professors has been explained by everything from outright bias to higher I.Q. scores. Now new research suggests that critics may have been asking the wrong question.
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Washington Post:
Fewer Americans think Obama has advanced race relations, poll shows — Soaring expectations about the effect of the first black president on U.S. race relations have collided with a more mundane reality, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll. — On the eve of President Obama's inauguration …
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The Politico:
Napolitano grants Haitians refuge — STATEMENT FROM HOMELAND SECURITY SECRETARY JANET NAPOLITANO — “As part of the department's ongoing efforts to assist Haiti following Tuesday's devastating earthquake, I am announcing the designation of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) …
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New York Times:
Review of Jet Bomb Plot Shows More Missed Clues — WASHINGTON — Worried about possible terrorist attacks over the Christmas holiday, President Obama met on Dec. 22 with top officials of the C.I.A., F.B.I. and Department of Homeland Security, who ticked off a list of possible plots …
Eric Dash / New York Times:
Wall St. Weighs a Challenge to a Proposed Tax — Wall Street's main lobbying arm has hired a top Supreme Court litigator to study a possible legal battle against a bank tax proposed by the Obama administration, on the theory that it would be unconstitutional, according to three industry officials briefed on the matter.
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David Sessions / Politics Daily:
Norm Coleman Says He Won't Run for Minnesota Governor — Former senator and 1998 Republican gubernatorial candidate Norm Coleman said Sunday that he will not make another run for governor of Minnesota, the Minneapolis Star-Tribune reports. — “This is not the right time for me and my family …
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