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Dem GOTV picking up Brown supporters — Stunned? Seriously, the Dems crashed and burned by picking Obama and Pelosi to run their agenda. — LOL I assume they are interested in the Democratic process and giving ALL voters a ride. Yea RIGHT! Guess their next stop is the Morgue to pick up some Dem voters.
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Coakley adviser memo: D.C. Dems ‘failed’ Coakley — The Coakley campaign is bridling at finger-pointing from the White House and Washington Democrats, and an outside adviser to the campaign has provided to POLITICO a memo aimed at rebutting the charge that Coakley failed and making the case that national Democrats failed her.
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Boston Globe calls election for Martha Coakley? — Boston.com briefly put up this map of the final results of today's election — some 8 hours before polls closed! — As you can see, over 2 million people voted, with Coakley eking out a 50-49 victory. — The map was fully interactive …

Democratic Party responds to Coakley memo: ‘Political malpractice’ — A senior Democratic Party official responded furiously today to a memo from a Coakley adviser arguing that the national party bears a large share of blame for failing to support her financially and sticking her with unpopular policies on health care and Afghanistan.


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 …

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.
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Dems: Coakley down 10 — From MSNBC's Norah O'DonnellSome early tidbits from the campaign about turnout.... According to a top Brown campaign adviser, there are “longer lines outside Boston than inside. Not good sign for Coakley. Scott's voters highly motivated.”


Fox's Gretchen Carlson Suggests Fox Viewers ‘Make A Call To Massachusetts’ To Help Scott Brown Win — On Sunday, Newsbusters' Noel Sheppard posted a clip of CNBC's Jim Cramer claiming that stock market could respond with “a gigantic rally off a Coakley loss and a Brown win” in the Massachusetts Senate special election.
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Notes from the Massachusetts Senate Race — Nigerian Zionists for Coakley, Irish Republicans for Brown, and thousands of angry Bay Staters — Cambridge, Massachusetts—In 1989, at the apogee of his exceedingly rebellious teenage years, my brother's band released their first full-length record …

Brown supporters trying to suppress vote by bullying — Scott Brown is running for U.S. Senate as a pleasant guy in a pickup truck. But a mean spirit drives some of his campaign. — At a West Springfield rally on Sunday, a Brown supporter yelled out “Shove a curling iron up her butt”.

Pollster John Zogby Predicts A Coakley Win — “I'm gonna tell you, I think Coakley is gonna win it.” (via Hot Air Pundit)
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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.

Why There Won't Be Exit Polls in Massachusetts
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High Voter Turnout For Brown-Coakley Senate Race

Obama advisor: President would have done more to save Teddy's seat if asked earlier
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Phony Calls Tell Massachusetts Residents Pro-Life Group Opposes Scott Brown

Massachusetts Senate Race: Thinking the Unthinkable
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Olbermann Blasts “Homophobic, Racist” Scott Brown; Scarborough Fires Back

Massachusetts Voting Begins for Crucial Senate Seat
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Top Senate Democrat Outlines ‘Nuclear Option’ Strategy for Health Care — A top Senate Democrat for the first time Tuesday acknowledged that the party is prepared to deal with health care reform by using a controversial legislative tactic known as the “nuclear option” if Republican Scott Brown wins the Massachusetts Senate election.
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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 …
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After the Massachusetts special election
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Dems may flee scene of health care crime
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The Pragmatic Leviathan
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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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Massachusetts Senate race: Voter Fraud watch; Update: Coakley's last gasp — Scroll for updates...Coakley's last gasp... 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.
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You're Not Supposed to Get an Absentee Ballot in a Box of Cracker …
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The day I decided to stop being gay — Twenty years after he came out, Patrick Muirhead, 41, explains why he is suddenly feeling the appeal of the opposite sex — A minor incident in a barber's shop last week has helped me to realise that I may no longer be gay.


So What Does Massachusetts Mean? — Assuming a huge Brown victory tonight, as I do, I've been trying to sort through the many layers of what it might really mean. The FNC/RNC machine will describe it as a crushing referendum on health insurance reform and Obama, period.
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