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10:00 AM ET, January 19, 2010

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Mike Allen / The Politico:
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 …
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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
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 …
New York Times:
Democrats May Seek 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 …
David Catanese / The Politico:
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 …
Mark Blumenthal / Pollster.com All Content:
Massachusetts Wrap-Up  —  Over the last few days, thousands of words have been written and many charts posted on Pollster and elsewhere, all trying to make sense of the sometimes divergent Massachusetts Senate polls.  If you haven't yet, make sure you read Charles Franklin's tour de force review posted …
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Good news: Obama to take “combative” approach to Brown victory  —  A follow-up to last week's video clip of The One promising to make the midterms a referendum on ObamaCare, which is working like gangbusters right now for Marcia or Marla or whatever her name is.
John Bresnahan / The Politico:
NRSC worked under radar in Mass.  —  Working quietly and under the radar, the National Republican Senatorial Committee shifted $500,000 to the Massachusetts GOP in the weeks leading up to Tuesday's dramatic election, according to Republican sources.  —  The NRSC transfer …
Steve Kornacki:
Coakley internals: +1, with a catch
Michael Graham / Boston Herald:
Nothing Madisonian in this Martha
Discussion: Taylor Marsh
MyFox Boston:
Poll: Scott Brown surges to double-digit lead over Martha Coakley
William A. Jacobson / Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion:   Brown Hometown Rally Tonight (Pics)
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.
Discussion: TalkLeft
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Joe Garofoli / SFGate:   Pelosi: Whatever happens in MA Senate race, health care will pass (VIDEO)
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.
Wall Street Journal:
National Parties Look to Boost Voter Turnout  —  Close Race for Senate Galvanizes Supporters  —  NORTH ANDOVER, Mass.—The fight for a Massachusetts U.S. Senate seat, and with it President Barack Obama's domestic agenda, is coming down to one essential challenge: maximizing turnout of core supporters.
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Boston Globe:
Sen. Kerry says Scott Brown supporters engaged in bullying, threats
Daniel Foster / The Corner on National Review Online:
Kerry Warns of “Dangerous Atmosphere” Around Brown Rallies — By: Daniel Foster
Discussion: NO QUARTER and Pundit & Pundette
CBS News:
Poll: Most Don't Want Sarah Palin to Run for President  —  Posted by Kevin Hechtkopf A new CBS News poll finds that a large majority of Americans say they do not want former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin to run for president.  —  Specifically, 71 percent say they do not want the former …
Bernard Avishai / TPMCafe:
Who's To Blame?  —  I am mostly living far from Massachusetts these days, but I've marinated in its politics for 25 years, and seen my share of reactionaries voted into office.  The idea that the state's undecideds are breaking for Brown because of some generalized economic anger that Obama failed …
Discussion: TalkLeft
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Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
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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Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
From Depression To Rage  —  We have heard a lot from those furious that Obama has not solved all our problems overnight, how they feel that this country has somehow been taken away from them, how they feel a disconnect from the president.  But maybe it's time for a different kind of rage …
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 …
Discussion: The Jawa Report and Instapundit
 
 
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