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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Coakley adviser memo: D.C. Dems ‘failed’ Coakley — The Coakley campaign is bridling at finger-pointing from the White House and Washington Democrats, and an outside adviser to the campaign has provided to POLITICO a memo aimed at rebutting the charge that Coakley failed and making the case that national Democrats failed her.
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Carly Carioli / Talking Politics:
Boston Globe calls election for Martha Coakley? — Boston.com briefly put up this map of the final results of today's election — some 8 hours before polls closed! — As you can see, over 2 million people voted, with Coakley eking out a 50-49 victory. — The map was fully interactive …
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Michelle Malkin:
Oops: Boston Globe's premature election results — Several readers logged on to the Boston Globe website and encountered this premature graphic of town-by-town election results at around 1:00pm Eastern: — They were obviously just testing out the graphic for tonight …
Mark Silva / The Swamp:
Axelrod to Boston's Brown: 'Hat's off' — President Barack Obama's top political advisor, David Axelrod, said today that if the White House had been asked earlier, more could have been done for embattled Democratic Senate candidate Martha Coakley in Massachusetts.
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Paul West / Maryland Politics:
Obama advisor: President would have done more to save Teddy's seat if asked earlier — President Barack Obama's top political advisor, David Axelrod, said today that if the White House had been asked earlier, more could have been done for embattled Democratic Senate candidate Martha Coakley in Massachusetts.
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
LUCY, CHARLIE BROWN, AND THE BIPARTISAN FOOTBALL.... This notion …
LUCY, CHARLIE BROWN, AND THE BIPARTISAN FOOTBALL.... This notion …
Stuart Rothenberg / Roll Call:
Massachusetts Senate Race: Thinking the Unthinkable
Massachusetts Senate Race: Thinking the Unthinkable
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Christopher Beam / Slate:
State of Shock — Scott Brown barnstorms Massachusetts.
State of Shock — Scott Brown barnstorms Massachusetts.
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The Politico:
Finger-pointing begins for Dems
Finger-pointing begins for Dems
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Glenn Thrush / Glenn Thrush's Blog:
Dem GOTV picking up Brown supporters — Stunned? Seriously, the Dems crashed and burned by picking Obama and Pelosi to run their agenda. — What a grossly biased and misleading headline versus the story — LOL I assume they are interested in the Democratic process and giving ALL voters a ride.
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Joan Vennochi / Boston Globe:
Brown supporters trying to suppress vote by bullying — Scott Brown is running for U.S. Senate as a pleasant guy in a pickup truck. But a mean spirit drives some of his campaign. — At a West Springfield rally on Sunday, a Brown supporter yelled out “Shove a curling iron up her butt”.
Boston Weather, Breaking News and Sports from WBZ-TV:
High Voter Turnout For Brown-Coakley Senate Race — Join the Conversation: What's Making You Vote? — BOSTON (WBZ) ― It's time to go to the polls, even if you have to wait. — Voter turnout is heavy for the special election today to fill the state's vacant U.S. Senate seat.
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The Politico:
Five things to watch in Mass. — The stakes for Tuesday's special Senate election in Massachusetts couldn't be higher. At play: the Democrats' 60-seat supermajority — and, potentially, the fate of President Barack Obama's signature health care reform legislation.
Steven Ertelt / LifeNews.com Pro-Life Headlines:
Phony Calls Tell Massachusetts Residents Pro-Life Group Opposes Scott Brown
Phony Calls Tell Massachusetts Residents Pro-Life Group Opposes Scott Brown
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Massachusetts: Dem attacks on Coakley get personal
Massachusetts: Dem attacks on Coakley get personal
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Election Journal:
VIDEO: Why is this woman handing out blank absentee ballots? — These appear to be blank absentee ballots being handed out in Lawrence, MA. Developing....
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Michelle Malkin:
Massachusetts Senate race: Voter Fraud watch — I'll be keeping tabs on voter fraud reports in the Mass. Senate special election today. Flag any reports you've seen/heard in comments or send me an e-mail. — 1) Election Journal, the website that exposed the New Black Panther Party thugs …
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Ezra Klein:
After the Massachusetts special election — I don't know who will win today's special election in Massachusetts. But I do know what should happen — and what can happen — after the votes are counted and the winner is seated: Democrats should pass health-care reform.
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Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
So What Does Massachusetts Mean? — Assuming a huge Brown victory tonight, as I do, I've been trying to sort through the many layers of what it might really mean. The FNC/RNC machine will describe it as a crushing referendum on health insurance reform and Obama, period.
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Washington Post:
FBI broke law for years in phone record searches — The FBI illegally collected more than 2,000 U.S. telephone call records between 2002 and 2006 by invoking terrorism emergencies that did not exist or simply persuading phone companies to provide records, according to internal bureau memos and interviews.
Steve Krakauer / Mediaite:
Olbermann Blasts “Homophobic, Racist” Scott Brown; Scarborough Fires Back — Keith Olbermann unleashed a super-aggressive, borderline-absurd last minute “quick comment” about GOP Massachusetts U.S. Senate candidate Scott Brown, highlighting some of the story lines that have been put …
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Stephen Bayley / Times of London:
The day I decided to stop being gay — Twenty years after he came out, Patrick Muirhead, 41, explains why he is suddenly feeling the appeal of the opposite sex — A minor incident in a barber's shop last week has helped me to realise that I may no longer be gay.
Aislinn Laing / Telegraph:
US accused of ‘occupying’ Haiti as troops flood in — France accused the US of “occupying” Haiti on Monday as thousands of American troops flooded into the country to take charge of aid efforts and security. — The French minister in charge of humanitarian relief called on the UN to …
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Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Weird Ballot In Cambridge? — Note to readers: Please let me know what you're seeing in the field today in Massachusetts. — A software engineer in Cambridge says he was handed a fishy ballot at the polling station in a local firehouse — it already had the bubble next to Scott Brown's name filled in.