“United States Senate special election in Massachusetts” on The Daily Caller

Scott Brown, a celebrity among Republicans, made his rounds around Capitol Hill this morning, glad handing his soon-to-be colleagues in the Senate as a herd of journalists followed him. (more)

Massachusetts voters will send Republican Scott Brown to the U.S. Senate, an upset hardly fathomed just weeks ago that conservatives across the country are hailing as a rejection of the national Democratic platform. (more)

“Are you willing, under those circumstances, to say I’m gonna be the person, I’m gonna sit in Teddy Kennedy’s seat, and I’m gonna be the person that’s gonna block it for another 15 years,” David Gergen asks Scott Brown. (more)

President Barack Obama today summoned the spirit of the late Ted Kennedy and railed against his predecessor in the White House at a rally for supporters of Democrat Martha Coakley in Boston. On Tuesday, Coakley will stand against Republican Scott Brown in a special election to fill the Massachusetts Senate seat previously held by Kennedy. (more)

Massachusetts Republican state Sen. Scott Brown is leading Democrat Martha Coakley, the state’s Attorney General, by 48 percent to 45 percent among likely voters in Tuesday’s special election with 2 percent backing Libertarian Joseph Kennedy and 5 percent undecided, according to an American Research Group poll conducted Jan. 12-14. The margin of error is 4 points. (more)

By all the rules, it should be automatic. The winner to take Teddy Kennedy’s Senate seat in Massachusetts, the bluest of all the blue states, should be a Democrat. And it’s especially important this year, because Democrats need that seat to hold on to 60 votes for health care reform. (more)

Ted Kennedy may be gone, but his name is all over the Massachusetts Senate race. (more)

Even experienced political observers are slightly incredulous at what has happened over the past week in Massachusetts: a Republican state senator most well known for posing nude in Cosmo 28 years ago and for his daughter’s appearance on “American Idol” is within striking distance of taking Ted Kennedy’s Senate seat – and possibly health-care reform – from the Democrats. (more)

Massachusetts Republican Scott Brown’s war chest has more than $1 million more in it after Monday’s money bomb fundraiser exploded into some major bucks for the Senate hopeful. (more)

A Massachusetts senator could derail President Barack Obama’s health-care bill, a twist of irony given the late Sen. Ted Kennedy’s long career of lobbying for reform on Capitol Hill. (more)