1/20/10-Mass Senate-Web Report

20. January 2010 by admin.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/20/AR2010012000324.html

A few months ago, the question was not who would win Massachusetts’ open Senate seat, but which Democrat. Now it’s whichhttp://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2010/01/president-obama-surprised-and-frustrated-at-closeness-of-mass-senate-race.html Democrats get blamed for losing it.

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2010/01/president-obama-surprised-and-frustrated-at-closeness-of-mass-senate-race.html

While he refused to answer most questions about the close Massachusetts Senate race, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs today acknowledged that President Obama “was both surprised and frustrated” with how hotly contested the Bay State special election has become.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_massachusetts_senate

“The president ought to take this as a message to recalibrate how he wants to govern, and if he wants to govern from the middle we’ll meet him there,” said Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky.

http://www.kare11.com/news/national/national_article.aspx?storyid=837305&catid=18

Democratic fingerpointing began more than a week ago as polls started showing a tight race, with the White House accusing Coakley of a poor campaign and the Coakley camp laying at some of the blame on the administration. Obama flew to Boston for last-ditch personal campaigning on Sunday.

http://www.nasdaq.com/aspx/stock-market-news-story.aspx?storyid=201001201355dowjonesdjonline000600&title=republicanswilling-to-work-with-dems-after-masssenate-win

- Senate Republicans said Wednesday they stand willing to work with their Democratic counterparts to reach bipartisan solutions on the problems facing America.

http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/thegaggle/archive/2010/01/19/the-democrats-who-deserve-blame-for-their-loss-in-massachusetts.aspx

The Democrats Who Deserve Blame for Their Loss in Massachusetts

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A shift in the political landscape from just one year ago: That’s what AP national political reporter Liz Sidoti sees after last night’s Republican win in the Massachusetts Senate race to fill the vacant seat of Ted Kennedy.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-meerman-scott/coakley-v-brown-the-socia_b_426832.html

Of course there is much more to the race: Politics and platforms and personal connections are important. But didn’t Obama for America teach us that the Web has the power to push a candidate over the top? Obama also showed the importance of young people (whose communications of choice is digital).

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,583417,00.html

SARAH PALIN, FORMER GOVERNOR OF ALASKA, FOX NEWS CONTRIBUTOR (Via telephone): Oh, this is — this is huge. You just witnessed a wicked political pivot across our country, and I think this victory of Brown’s can’t be overstated — not just Brown, too, but look at the recent developments in New Jersey and Virginia, now Massachusetts. This is a tidal wave that’s sweeping the country that’s telling politicians in D.C. the status quo is not acceptable.

http://newsmax.com/InsideCover/Obama-Advisors-Deny-Brown/2010/01/20/id/347435

Senior presidential adviser David Axelrod and White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs are rejecting the notion that the stunning Scott Brown upset in the Massachusetts Senate race was a voters’ rebuke to the president’s policies.

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