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11:00 PM ET, January 19, 2010

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Associated Press:
GOP's Brown wins Mass. Senate seat in epic upset  —  Buzz up!  —  BOSTON - In an epic upset in liberal Massachusetts, Republican Scott Brown rode a wave of voter anger to defeat Democrat Martha Coakley in a U.S. Senate election Tuesday that left President Barack Obama's health care overhaul …
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Rasmussen Reports:
First Look At Massachusetts Election Night Poll Data  —  Rasmussen Reports has conducted an Election Night survey of 1,000 voters in the Massachusetts special election for U.S. Senate.  Data will be released on this page throughout the evening.  —  Polls closed in Massachusetts …
Boston Globe:
Live coverage of the US Senate race  —  10:30 p.m. — Scott Brown takes the stage.  “I bet they can hear this cheering all the way in Washington, D.C. ...  I hope they're paying close attention because tonight the independent voice of Massachusetts has spoken.”  —  10:27 p.m. — Mitt Romney takes the stage at the Brown party.
The Note:
Bayh Warns “Catastrophe” If Dems Ignore Massachusetts Senate Race Lessons  —  ABC News' Jonathan Karl reports:  —  Even before the votes are counted, Senator Evan Bayh is warning fellow Democrats that ignoring the lessons of the Massachusetts Senate race will “lead to even further catastrophe” for their party.
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
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.
Carly Carioli / Talking Politics:
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 …
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
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.
Tucker Carlson / The Daily Caller:
Pollster Frank Luntz having difficulty finding Coakley supporters for focus group on election night of Massachusetts senate race  —  Just about every election night, Republican pollster Frank Luntz assembles a focus group of likely voters to help predict election results.
Tony Romm / The Hill:
Lieberman: Brown win would send message about healthcare  —  A victory for Republican Senate candidate Scott Brown in Massachusetts would send a message that voters are “really skeptical about this healthcare bill,” Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) said Tuesday.
Trish Turner / Fox News:
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.
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.  —  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.
Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Weird Ballot In Cambridge?  —  Note to readers: Please let me know what you're seeing in the field today in Massachusetts.  —  A software engineer in Cambridge says he was handed a fishy ballot at the polling station in a local firehouse — it already had the bubble next to Scott Brown's name filled in.
Discussion: Salon, TPMDC and The BRAD BLOG
Jeff Zeleny / The Caucus:
Blogging the Massachusetts Senate Race  —  Residents cast their votes at the polls Tuesday morning at the town hall in Leicester, Mass.  —  Whither the Republican leadership?  3:46 p.m. Much of the analysis about the race quickly gets back to finger-pointing among three Democratic establishments …
Discussion: PostPartisan and Prairie Weather
Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
Scott Brown wins Massachusetts Senate special election race
Ann Althouse / Althouse:
Brown wins!
Discussion: Winds of Change.NET
Paul Waldman / American Prospect:
Why Massachusetts Doesn't Matter  —  Even if Brown defeats Coakley …
Discussion: Opinionator and The Confluence
Michelle Malkin:
Massachusetts Senate race: Voter Fraud watch; Update: Coakley's last gasp
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Coakley campaign casts doubt on election ‘integrity’
Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
Why Coakley Losing Won't Matter That Much
Discussion: Commentary
Domenico Montanaro / msnbc.com:
Dems: Coakley down 10  —  From MSNBC's Norah O'DonnellSome …
Discussion: The Plum Line
Michael Cooper / New York Times:
G.O.P. Takes Massachusetts Senate Seat
Mary Katharine Ham / Weekly Standard:
Axelrod Sounding Awfully Kind About Scott Brown
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
Robert Stacy McCain / AmSpecBlog:
Massachusetts Union Official for Brown: 'Kerry, You're Next'
Discussion: DaTechguy's Blog
The Note:
Coakley Team Warned of Problems With Independents in December …
Discussion: The Politico and Ben Smith's Blog
Igor / Think Progress:
Lieberman Begins To Distance Himself From The Health Care Bill That He Crafted
Discussion: The Politico
Associated Press:
Hoyer: White House likely to name deficit panel  —  WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is likely to name a special commission to come up with a plan to curb the spiraling budget deficit under an agreement forged with top Capitol Hill Democrats.  —  No. 2 House Democrat Steny Hoyer …
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Christina Bellantoni / TPMDC:
Health Care Comes To Screeching Halt - Sen. Webb: No HCR Votes Until Brown Seated
Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Webb: Stop Senate votes until Brown is seated
Discussion: Ben Smith's Blog
Peter Daou / The Huffington Post:
Liberal Bloggers to Obama and Dems: We Told You So  —  It took more than half a decade, countless American and Iraqi deaths in a war based on lies, a sinking economy and the drowning of an American city to finally kill Bush-Cheney-Rove's dream of a conservative realignment.
Stephen Bayley / Times of London:
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.
Discussion: Box Turtle Bulletin
 
 
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