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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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Marc Ambinder / The Atlantic Politics Channel:
MA SEN: WIll The House Pass The Senate Bill? — Good luck with that! Not only will a Brown victory make moderates even more skittish about health care, but it will probably fortify the ten or so Democrats who've said they will under no circumstances support the Senate bill's abortion language.
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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.
The Politico:Finger-pointing begins for Dems
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Jim Hoft / Gateway Pundit:Unreal... Martha Coakley Holds Rally at MLK Breakfast With Scott …
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MyFox Boston:Poll: Scott Brown surges to double-digit lead over Martha Coakley
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Johnny Dollar / Olbermann Watch:
Joe Scarborough Slams ‘Reckless’ Olbermann for Unhinged Personal Attacks on Scott Brown! — Here is what the infamous, deplorable Keith Olbermann spewed tonight (via The Right Scoop): — Moments later, in a rare example of criticism from his own colleagues, his diatribe was blasted by MSNBC's Joe Scarborough:
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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.
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.
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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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The Note:Pelosi: We Will Have Health Care - One Way Or Another
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Allahpundit / Hot Air:Here we go: Dems to ask House to ping-pong Senate ObamaCare bill
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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 …
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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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 …
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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 …
Eric Kleefeld / TPMDC:
Massachusetts Law: Certificate Of Election Can't Come For At Least Ten Days (And Probably More) — With the Senate Democrats indicating that they will wait for the state of Massachusetts to follow its own procedural guidelines for certifying a winner in the Massachusetts special Senate election …
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