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11:25 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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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:
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 …
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 …
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.
David Catanese / The Politico:
New poll: Brown up 9  —  A new InsiderAdvantage poll conducted …
Boston Globe:
All eyes on Bay State ballot
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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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
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Upset could trigger healthcare rush
Discussion: The Nation
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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Richard Borreca / Star Bulletin:
Abercrombie in slight lead for governor  —  U.S. Rep. Neil Abercrombie is slightly ahead of Honolulu Mayor Mufi Hannemann in the race for governor, according to a new survey of registered voters.  —  The poll taken by telephone Jan. 8-12 among 800 registered voters across the state has a margin …
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 …
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 …
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
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
 
 
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