memeorandum: Axelrod to Boston's Brown: 'Hat's off' (Mark Silva/The Swamp)

3:45 PM ET, January 19, 2010

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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. — 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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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 …

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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 …

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.

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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.

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Joan Vennochi / Boston Globe:

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”.

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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.

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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 …

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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.

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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Coakley adviser memo: D.C. Dems ‘failed’ Coakley

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CNN:
Brown wants to play basketball with Obama, if he wins

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Boston Globe:
Voters stream to polls in special US Senate election

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The Politico:
Finger-pointing begins for Dems

Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Massachusetts: Dem attacks on Coakley get personal

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Felicia Sonmez / Hotline On Call:
Why Scott Brown Leads

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Steven Ertelt / LifeNews.com Pro-Life Headlines:
Phony Calls Tell Massachusetts Residents Pro-Life Group Opposes Scott Brown

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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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Jonathan Cohn / The New Republic:
Pelosi Isn't Panicking. Her Party Should Listen.

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Glenn Thrush / Glenn Thrush's Blog:
Dems may flee scene of health care crime

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Brian Beutler / TPMDC:
Hoyer: Senate Health Care Bill Better Than Nothing

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Washington Wire:
The Lone Republican: Cao Likely to Oppose Health Care on Final Vote

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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 …

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Jim Geraghty / National Review Online:
You're Not Supposed to Get an Absentee Ballot in a Box of Cracker …

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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 …

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Mark Silva / The Swamp:
Obama's agenda remains: White House

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Mike Allen / The Politico:
Obama plans combative turn

Stuart Rothenberg / Roll Call:
Massachusetts Senate Race: Thinking the Unthinkable

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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

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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.

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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:

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Steve Krakauer / Mediaite:
Olbermann Blasts “Homophobic, Racist” Scott Brown; Scarborough Fires Back

Discussion: Hot Air and Raw Story

ABCNEWS:

‘Jesus Guns’ Leave Marine Corps ‘Concerned’ — Following ABC News Report of Secret Bible Verses on Weapons Used in Muslim Lands, Marines Will Meet With Maker of Equipment — Following an ABC News report that thousands of gun sights used by the U.S. military in Iraq and Afghanistan …

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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:

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.

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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.

Mark Murray / msnbc.com:

POLL: PUBLIC STILL SOUR ON HEALTH CARE — From NBC's Mark Murray — As the political world waits on the returns from the special Senate election in Massachusetts, one of the big issues in the race — the health care debate — has increasingly become a liability for the Obama White House …

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