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2:50 PM ET, January 19, 2010

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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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Mark Silva / The Swamp:
Axelrod to Boston's Brown: 'Hat's off'  —  President Barack Obama's top political advisor, David Axelrod, said today that if the White House had been asked earlier, more could have been done for embattled Democratic Senate candidate Martha Coakley in Massachusetts.
Discussion: Ben Smith's Blog
Boston Weather, Breaking News and Sports from WBZ-TV:
High Voter Turnout For Brown-Coakley Senate Race  —  Join the Conversation: What's Making You Vote?  —  BOSTON (WBZ) ― It's time to go to the polls, even if you have to wait.  —  Voter turnout is heavy for the special election today to fill the state's vacant U.S. Senate seat.
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 …
Discussion: The Swamp
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.
Paul West / Maryland Politics:
Obama advisor: President would have done more to save Teddy's seat if asked earlier  —  President Barack Obama's top political advisor, David Axelrod, said today that if the White House had been asked earlier, more could have been done for embattled Democratic Senate candidate Martha Coakley in Massachusetts.
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 …
Michelle Malkin:
Oops: Boston Globe's premature election results  —  Several readers logged on to the Boston Globe website and encountered this premature graphic of town-by-town election results at around 1:00pm Eastern:  —  They were obviously just testing out the graphic for tonight …
Carly Carioli / Talking Politics:
Boston Globe calls election for Martha Coakley?
Discussion: Don Surber and Blue Mass. Group
CNN:
Brown wants to play basketball with Obama, if he wins
Joan Vennochi / Boston Globe:
Brown supporters trying to suppress vote by bullying
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Massachusetts: Dem attacks on Coakley get personal
Felicia Sonmez / Hotline On Call:
Coakley Says Polls Are Inaccurate
Susan Davis / Washington Wire:
Atwitter in Mass.: Brown's Social Media Strategy Tops Coakley's
Discussion: Hub Politics
Felicia Sonmez / Hotline On Call:
Why Scott Brown Leads
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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Michelle Malkin:
Massachusetts Senate race: Voter Fraud watch  —  I'll be keeping tabs on voter fraud reports in the Mass. Senate special election today.  Flag any reports you've seen/heard in comments or send me an e-mail.  —  1) Election Journal, the website that exposed the New Black Panther Party thugs …
Jim Geraghty / National Review Online:
You're Not Supposed to Get an Absentee Ballot in a Box of Cracker Jacks — By: Jim Geraghty  —  Hmmm.  Why is “Isabel Melendez” handing out blank absentee ballots in Massachusetts?  —  I can't help but notice that there's an Isabel Melendez, who is a Democratic community activist who ran for mayor of Lawrence in 2001.
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:
What's at Stake in Massachusetts?
Discussion: ABCNEWS and The Politico
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.
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: Hot Air and Raw Story
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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Tim Montgomerie / America in the World:
Anti-Americanism in seven easy steps
Discussion: Instapundit
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
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.
 
 
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McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Students' refusal to state race on forms frustrates officials
Discussion: Joanne Jacobs
Mark Murray / msnbc.com:
Poll: Public still sour on heath care
Discussion: TalkLeft and The Plum Line
David Mixner:
Obama's Silence Is Hurting Us Now
Discussion: pandagon.net
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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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Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
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Lachlan Cartwright / The Ankler:
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