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2:45 PM ET, January 18, 2010

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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 …
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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.
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Trendspotting in Massachusetts  —  Charles Franklin has a typically articulate analysis up at Pollster.com which comes to a somewhat different conclusion than mine about the state of play in Massachusetts.  His analysis works by lumping polls together into different bundles (e.g. “non-partisan” …
Grant Bosse / Watchdog News:
Snow Day In Boston: Phone Banks Empty.  —  (BOSTON, MA) On the eve of one of the most anticipated state elections in modern American history, it's still a day off for Massachusetts state employees.  The Secretary of the Commonwealth's Office in downtown B oston is closed to the public for Martin Luther King Day.
Charles Franklin / Pollster.com All Content:
What to believe about Massachusetts Senate Polls  —  There has been a wider than normal range of polling results in the last two weeks from the Massachusetts Senate special election.  This has been further clouded by a number of leaked internal polls and polling by relatively unknown and unproven pollsters …
The Rothenberg / The Rothenberg Political Report:
MA Sen Moved to Lean Takeover  —  While special elections often come down to turnout - and they therefore are more difficult to predict than normal elections - the combination of public and private survey research and anecdotal information now strongly suggests that Republican Scott Brown …
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Two factors will decide Massachusetts Senate race  —  After all the speeches, politicking, and attack ads, there are just two issues that will determine the winner of the Massachusetts Senate seat in Tuesday's special election.  The first is health care and the second is one-party government.
Robert Kuttner / The Huffington Post:
A Wake Up Call  —  How could the health care issue have turned …
Discussion: AMERICAblog News
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
WH plans to cram Senate ObamaCare bill down House throat if Brown wins
John Garvey / Boston Herald:
Disdains Scott Brown's conscience
Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
Coakley campaign launches Obama ad
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Political Punch:
Martha Coakley: A Democratic Canary in a Coalmine?
Discussion: ABCNEWS and Jules Crittenden
CNN:
GOP candidate dominates social networking in Massachusetts
Jeff Zeleny / New York Times:
Democrats Push to Salvage a Flailing Candidacy
Alex Isenstadt / The Politico:
Mass. race lacks key element: Romney
Boston Globe:
Pulling out all the stops  —  Obama, in Hub, says he needs Coakley …
Discussion: Ben Smith's Blog and Betsy's Page
Jillian Rayfield / TPM LiveWire:
Obama At Coakley Event: ‘I Need Leaders Like Martha By My Side’
Discussion: protein wisdom and Althouse
Scott Horton / Harper's:
The Guantánamo “Suicides”: A Camp Delta sergeant blows the whistle  —  1. “Asymmetrical Warfare”  —  When President Barack Obama took office last year, he promised to “restore the standards of due process and the core constitutional values that have made this country great.”
E.J. Dionne Jr / Washington Post:
Mass. Senate race's lesson for Obama  —  In June 2008, a few months before the financial implosions began, I asked two smart financiers who happened to be Republican about the future of the seemingly shaky American economy.  —  Defying the moment's conventional predictions …
Alexander Burns / The Politico:
VP: Constitution ‘on its head’  —  Five U.S. senators attend a hearing on Afghanistan on Capitol Hill on Dec. 8, 2009.  AP  —  Vice President Joe Biden said at a Florida fundraiser Sunday that the 60-seat threshold for passing legislation in the Senate put a dangerous new roadblock in the way of American government.
Discussion: BuzzFlash.org and Weasel Zippers
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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Biden derides supermajority rule
Discussion: Washington Monthly and Wonkette
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.
ABCNEWS:
U.S. Military Weapons Inscribed With Secret ‘Jesus’ Bible Codes  —  Pentagon Supplier for Rifle Sights Says It Has ‘Always’ Added New Testament References  —  Coded references to New Testament Bible passages about Jesus Christ are inscribed on high-powered rifle sights provided …
Robert Booth / Guardian:
Cruise ships still find Haitian berth  —  Luxury liners are still docking at private beaches near Haiti's devastated earthquake zone for holidaymakers to enjoy the water  —  Sixty miles from Haiti's devastated earthquake zone, luxury liners dock at private beaches where passengers enjoy jetski rides …
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
THE BACKUP PLAN.... No one can say with confidence what voters in Massachusetts will do tomorrow, or how members of Congress will react to the results.  But it's hardly a stretch to suspect that health care reform, Ted Kennedy's life's work and a policy goal sought for decades by lawmakers from both parties …
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Alexander Mooney / CNN:
Coleman not running for governor  —  (CNN) - Former Minnesota Sen. Norm Coleman will not run for governor in 2010, the Republican announced Sunday on his Facebook page.  —  Coleman, who lost re-election to Democrat Al Franken in a close contest in 2008 that took six months to resolve …
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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Closing with Obama in Mass.  —  Coakley's final spot, going up today, features an impassioned Obama pleading with Massachusetts voters to send Coakley to the Senate.  —  The ad basically features Obama recounting her biography.  It doesn't mention health care, and doesn't cast the vote in terms of his agenda.
 
 
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