For someone running in her first-ever election, Democratic candidate for US Senate Elizabeth Warren certainly has a knack for attracting attention. From her viral video rebuke of dismissive “class warfare” rhetoric, to her feudlet with incumbent Scott Brown over his modeling career, her fledgling candidacy is gathering momentum at the polls, and in the war chest. [...]

Al Franken is not entirely comfortable with this whole “Senator Scott Brown” thing. The newly seated Massachusetts Republican is being partially blamed for a heated discussion between Franken and senior White House advisor David Axelrod, during which the senator attacked Axelrod for the lack of direction, specificity, and initiative the Obama admin has taken on health care reform.

Frank Rich, in Sunday’s New York Times op-ed “After the Massachusetts Massacre” insists that a political obituary for Obama is premature, but that doesn’t mean the Democrats’ political path is promising: “If the administration sticks to this trajectory, all bets are off for the political future of a president who rode into office blessed with more high hopes, good will and serious promise than any in modern memory.”

For a third straight night, Countdown host Keith Olbermann pressed his attack against Scott Brown, whom he first called “racist” and “homophobic,” among other things, then apologized for not attacking harder. Last night, he noted that defenders of Brown had accused him of lying, but offered no refutation. He then laid out the proof of his claims in his new “quick comment” segment and dared someone to disprove him. I’ll give it a shot.

Everything old is new again! Last night certainly felt like a blast from 2008 as all the cablers went wall to wall with coverage of Massachusetts special election. And really it would be hard to argue that there is anyone who enjoys the election circus more than Chris Matthews, who reached farther back than 2008 in order to explain the election results: Not even Monica Lewinsky was as damaging as this economy.

The Associated Press has declared Republican candidate Scott Brown to have defeated rival Democrat Martha Coakley to be the replacement Senator representing the traditionally liberal state of Massachusetts, delivering a crushing blow to current Democratic lead efforts to reform health care. Update – video of Scott Brown’s acceptance speech, and Martha Coakley concession speech after the jump.

This clip from this morning’s Morning Joe is currently making the rounds due to Peggy Noonan’s remark that today’s Mass. special election GOP candidate Scott Brown is popular because he “looks like an American.” Actually, Noonan’s remark may be the least offensive to come out of this morning’s chat session on the subject, Donny Deutsch thinks the fact Brown not black or a woman may offer a “visceral comfort” to voters.

With everyone clamoring for information on today’s Senate race between Martha Coakley and Scott Brown, journalists and political junkies will have to do without traditional exit polling, Politico and the Wall Street Journal are reporting. Interestingly enough, we might see coverage of the lack of exit polling replacing standard election day cover of the actual exit polls. And come the end of voting at 8 p.m.? A lot of guesswork.

The special election today in Massachusetts to fill Ted Kennedy’s Senate seat has taken on epic proportions over the last week or so. The election is viewed by many as a one year referendum on the Obama, but most importantly if Martha Coakley loses today it will ostensibly put health care reform in jeopardy. Andrew Sullivan thinks a Coakley loss portends to bigger and darker things.

There’s an interesting subtext to today’s replacement election in Massachusetts for the seat vacated by Ted Kennedy: the Senate’s two best-represented demographics are facing off: a woman and a white man. How does today’s battle between Republican Scott Brown and Democratic Martha Coakley? In more ways than one might think.

After two weeks of more or less ignoring the news of the day, Glenn Beck has jumped (with a chalk board vengeance) into the headline-making special Senate race in Massachusetts between Martha Coakely and Scott Brown. Short version: There will be cheating!

As the Senate race in Massachusetts approaches the zero hour, last minute scrambling has turned ugly — and online. Beginning with the liberal blogs and their Scott Brown birther video and culminating in the president getting yelled at, now, two pillars of the political web — Daily Kos and RedState — have declared war with sabotage, intimidation and a fortified defense.

The tight special election Senate race in Massachusetts between Martha Coakley and Scott Brown concludes tomorrow, and Pres. Obama’s trip to Boston to stump for Coakley drew major attention on the cable newsers yesterday.

But CNN Chief White House Correspondent Ed Henry‘s reporting, that Pres Obama advisers believe Coakley will lose, caused the White House to push back in new, unique ways.