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2:00 PM 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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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.
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 …
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
25% ≠ 0%  —  Right now, our trusty little model of Massachusetts gives Martha Coakley just a 25 percent chance of prevailing tomorrow.  Intrade also puts her odds at about 1 in 4.  My subjective assessment might be a little better than that, but not much.
CNN:
Brown wants to play basketball with Obama, if he wins  —  Boston (CNN) - Scott Brown says if he wins the special senate election to fill the last three years of the term of the late Sen. Ted Kennedy, it will mean the voters are represented by a “regular guy.”
Discussion: Ben Smith's Blog
Mark Silva / The Swamp:   Axelrod to Boston's Brown: 'Hat's off'
Susan Davis / Washington Wire:
Atwitter in Mass.: Brown's Social Media Strategy Tops Coakley's
Discussion: Hub Politics
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
538 Model Posits Brown as 3:1 Favorite
Charles Franklin / Pollster.com All Content:
Solid Brown Lead in Final MA-Sen Models
Discussion: Taegan Goddard's …
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Massachusetts: Dem attacks on Coakley get personal
Discussion: Commentary and Betsy's Page
The Note:
What's at Stake in Massachusetts?
Discussion: ABCNEWS and The Politico
Maggie Haberman / NY Post:
GOP win in Mass. makes Ford Jr. run more likely: insiders
Felicia Sonmez / Hotline On Call:
Why Scott Brown Leads
Mark Silva / The Swamp:   White House: Calling all (Mass.) voters
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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Stuart Rothenberg / Roll Call:
Massachusetts Senate Race: Thinking the Unthinkable
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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New York Times:
Democrats May Seek to Push Health Bill Through House
Marc Ambinder / The Atlantic Politics Channel:
MA SEN: Will The House Pass The Senate Bill?
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Upset could trigger healthcare rush
Discussion: The Nation and Open Congress
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.
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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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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Steve Krakauer / Mediaite:
Olbermann Blasts “Homophobic, Racist” Scott Brown; Scarborough Fires Back
Discussion: Raw Story
Kevin Cullen / Boston Globe:
For Coakley, ominous sign  —  Blue Hill Avenue runs like a vein through the city.  —  It stretches for 4 miles, from River Street in Mattapan to Dudley Street in Roxbury, and a little more than a year ago there was an Obama sign on every block.  There were Obama signs in Mattapan barber shops …
Discussion: Swampland and Sweetness & Light
David Brooks / New York Times:
The Pragmatic Leviathan  —  When I was in college, I was assigned “Leviathan,” by Thomas Hobbes.  On the cover was an image from the first edition of the book, published in 1651.  It shows the British nation as a large man.  The people make up the muscles and flesh.
Gabriel Sherman / The New Republic:
Post Apocalypse  —  Inside the messy collapse of a great newspaper.  —  On July 2 of last year, Politico broke a startling story: The Washington Post was planning to host off-the-record salons at which sponsors would pay to mingle with D.C. eminences and Post writers.
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 …
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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Obama's Silence Is Hurting Us Now
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 Earlier Items: 
Alexander Burns / The Politico:
Zero hour in Massachusetts ... Dems bet heavily on Boston GOTV …
Discussion: Wonkette
Jules Crittenden:
Democracy In The MA  —  Sometimes it feels like we don't get a lot of it around here.
Richard Borreca / Star Bulletin:
Abercrombie in slight lead for governor
Richmond Times-Dispatch:
Hinkle: TORTURE: Where's the Conservative Skepticism?
 

 
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Lachlan Cartwright / The Ankler:
Sources: MSNBC renewed Rachel Maddow's contract early this fall, but with a pay cut; MSNBC bosses' plan to shake up daytime and weekend programming

Caitlin Huston / The Hollywood Reporter:
Internal memo: Hearst Magazines president announces layoffs as part of a decision to “reallocate resources” to “continue our focus on digital innovation”

Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel announced she will leave the agency on January 20; she was the first woman to be confirmed to lead the agency

 
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