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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. — LOL I assume they are interested in the Democratic process and giving ALL voters a ride. Yea RIGHT! Guess their next stop is the Morgue to pick up some Dem voters.
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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 …
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Democratic Party responds to Coakley memo: ‘Political malpractice’ — A senior Democratic Party official responded furiously today to a memo from a Coakley adviser arguing that the national party bears a large share of blame for failing to support her financially and sticking her with unpopular policies on health care and Afghanistan.
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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Domenico Montanaro / msnbc.com:
Dems: Coakley down 10 — From MSNBC's Norah O'DonnellSome early tidbits from the campaign about turnout.... According to a top Brown campaign adviser, there are “longer lines outside Boston than inside. Not good sign for Coakley. Scott's voters highly motivated.”
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”.
RealClearPolitics Video Log:
Pollster John Zogby Predicts A Coakley Win — “I'm gonna tell you, I think Coakley is gonna win it.” (via Hot Air Pundit)
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Boston Globe:
Voters stream to polls in special US Senate election — A constant stream of voters slogged through a light snow this morning to cast ballots in the unexpectedly close election to succeed the late Edward M. Kennedy in the US Senate. — Republican Scott Brown has surged more than 30 points …
Matt Corley / Think Progress:
Fox's Gretchen Carlson Suggests Fox Viewers 'Make A Call To …
Fox's Gretchen Carlson Suggests Fox Viewers 'Make A Call To …
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High Voter Turnout For Brown-Coakley Senate Race
High Voter Turnout For Brown-Coakley Senate Race
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Paul West / Maryland Politics:
Obama advisor: President would have done more to save Teddy's seat if asked earlier
Obama advisor: President would have done more to save Teddy's seat if asked earlier
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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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Stuart Rothenberg / Roll Call:
Massachusetts Senate Race: Thinking the Unthinkable
Massachusetts Senate Race: Thinking the Unthinkable
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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
Steve Krakauer / Mediaite:
Olbermann Blasts “Homophobic, Racist” Scott Brown; Scarborough Fires Back
Olbermann Blasts “Homophobic, Racist” Scott Brown; Scarborough Fires Back
Trish Turner / Fox News:
Top Senate Democrat Outlines ‘Nuclear Option’ Strategy for Health Care — A top Senate Democrat for the first time Tuesday acknowledged that the party is prepared to deal with health care reform by using a controversial legislative tactic known as the “nuclear option” if Republican Scott Brown wins the Massachusetts Senate election.
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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
LUCY, CHARLIE BROWN, AND THE BIPARTISAN FOOTBALL.... This notion, which I suspect we're about to hear a whole lot of, strikes me as wildly misguided. … This is a great idea, isn't it? All the White House and Democratic congressional leaders have to do is continue to work on their policy agenda …
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Ezra Klein:
After the Massachusetts special election
After the Massachusetts special election
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Glenn Thrush / Glenn Thrush's Blog:
Dems may flee scene of health care crime
Dems may flee scene of health care crime
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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 …
Jim Geraghty / National Review Online:
You're Not Supposed to Get an Absentee Ballot in a Box of Cracker …
You're Not Supposed to Get an Absentee Ballot in a Box of Cracker …
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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.
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.