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New poll: Brown up 9 — A new InsiderAdvantage poll conducted exclusively for POLITICO shows Republican Scott Brown surging to a 9-point advantage over Martha Coakley a day before Massachusetts voters trek to the ballot box to choose a new senator. — According to the survey conducted Sunday evening …
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538 Model Posits Brown as 3:1 Favorite — The FiveThirtyEight Senate Forecasting Model, which correctly predicted the outcome of all 35 Senate races in 2008, now regards Republican Scott Brown as a 74 percent favorite to win the Senate seat in Massachusetts on the basis of new polling from ARG …
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Poll: Scott Brown surges to double-digit lead over Martha Coakley — BOSTON (FOX25, myfoxboston) - A poll released a day before the special Senate race shows Senator Scott Brown surging to a double-digit lead over Attorney General Martha Coakley in the race for the open Massachusetts Senate seat.


Sen. Kerry says Scott Brown supporters engaged in bullying, threats — Brown greeting supporters on Main Street in North Andover. Kerry says some supporters have gone too far. — By Martin Finucane, Globe Staff — Massachusetts Senator John F.Kerry is calling on Republican Scott Brown …


Obama plans combative turn — President Barack Obama plans a combative response if, as White House aides fear, Democrats lose Tuesday's special Senate election in Massachusetts, close advisers say. — “This is not a moment that causes the president or anybody who works for him to express any doubt …


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 …

Is There An X Factor? — It seems pretty clear now that the plan if Martha Coakley loses tomorrow is to get the House to pass the Senate bill with a promise of revisions in a separate bill, to be passed in the Senate through the reconciliation process. But here's the frightening question …

Coakley internals: +1, with a catch — There is a report that Martha Coakley's internals for Sunday night put her ahead by two points, 48 to 46 percent. For what it's worth, my little birdie tells me that her Sunday night poll put her ahead by one point and that the three-night average for Friday …

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 …
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AWESOME... Scott Brown Responds to Elitist Obama's Attack on Truck Owners

A Wake Up Call — How could the health care issue have turned …

Kerry Warns of “Dangerous Atmosphere” Around Brown Rallies — By: Daniel Foster

In close race, Coakley and Brown push towards finish line
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Pelosi: We Will Have Health Care - One Way Or Another — ABC News' Jonathan Karl reports: Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi says Democrats will charge ahead with health care reform regardless of what happens in the Massachusetts Senate race. — “Let's remove all doubt, we will have health care …
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Democrats Seeking to Push Health Bill Through House — WASHINGTON — The White House and Democratic Congressional leaders, scrambling for a backup plan to rescue their health care legislation if Republicans win the special election in Massachusetts on Tuesday, have begun laying the groundwork …

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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 …
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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.”

A Looming Landslide For Brown — Democrats can stop hoping at this point. — I can see no alternative scenario but a huge - staggeringly huge - victory for the FNC/RNC machine tomorrow. They crafted a strategy of total oppositionism to anything Obama proposed a year ago.
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Obama to Deliver State of the Union Address Jan. 27 — . — Update | 6:49 p.m. President Obama will deliver his first State of the Union address on Jan. 27. — The White House announced Monday afternoon that the president would speak to a joint session of Congress next Wednesday at 9 p.m.
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Obama to give State of the Union speech on Wednesday, Jan. 27
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