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10:35 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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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 …
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 …
The Politico:
Finger-pointing begins for Dems  —  CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — As voters head to the polls in Massachusetts, nervous Democrats have already begun to blame one another for putting at risk the Senate seat Ted Kennedy held for more than 40 years.  —  Many angry Democrats blame their candidate …
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 …
David Catanese / The Politico:
New poll: Brown up 9  —  A new InsiderAdvantage poll conducted …
Boston Globe:
All eyes on Bay State ballot
David M. Herszenhorn / Prescriptions:
Pelosi: Mass. Election Won't Stop Health Bill
Katharine Q. Seelye / New York Times:
For Last Shot, the Biggest of Guns
Discussion: The Politico and Washington Wire
The Note:
‘Revolution in the Streets’: Mass. Republicans Prep for Fight …
Steve Kornacki:
Coakley internals: +1, with a catch
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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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.
Discussion: marbury
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.
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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Kevin Drum / Mother Jones:
Obama's Discontents  —  Bernard Avishai on the election in Massachusetts: … The frustration on the left with Obama — and with healthcare reform specifically — was almost inevitable.  During the campaign, a lot of people chose to see in him what they wanted to see …
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Bernard Avishai / TPMCafe:
Who's To Blame?  —  I am mostly living far from Massachusetts …
Discussion: TalkLeft
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
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
Richmond Times-Dispatch:
Hinkle: TORTURE: Where's the Conservative Skepticism?  —  Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab's failed attempt to blow up a jetliner over Detroit on Christmas Day has resurrected the debate over torture.  A Rasmussen Poll at year's end found a solid majority of Americans favor using …
Discussion: The Agitator
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 …
Sam Roberts / New York Times:
More Men Marrying Wealthier Wives  —  Beagy Zielinski is a German-born 28-year-old stylist who moved to New York to study fashion in 1995 and stayed.  Just before Christmas, she broke up with her blue-collar boyfriend, who repaired Navy ships.  —  “He was extremely insecure about my career …
 
 
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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
25% ≠ 0%  —  Right now, our trusty little model …
Discussion: SFGate and Don Surber
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