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Governor Deval Patrick says he's not going to make the same mistake Martha Coakley did in her US Senate race by ducking Boston's legion of right-wing radio talkers. Patrick's determined to go into the lion's den, but will it help him snatch victory from jaws of defeat, or will the likes of Howie Carr, Gerry Callahan, and Michael Graham simply have him for lunch?

From increased truck sales to action figures to a genealogical link to President Obama. Can the media find any more angles on the new Senator?  Now that’s he’s on the job, will the coverage change?

Scott Brown’s election has been called a referendum on healthcare, and President Obama and the economy.  The media has not stopped speculating on what Brown’s win meant even without reliable election day exit polling.  So what is the speculation based upon?

The majority of hosts backed Scott Brown, interviewing him regularly and giving him positive exposure. Did talk radio play in the Senate election?

Massachusetts Senator-elect Scott Brown became a national sensation as the first Republican to win a US Senate race since the 1970s. Since his victory on Jan. 19th, the coverage of Brown has been non-stop. How is the media shaping Brown's image?

"Beat the Press" panelists sound off on their rants and raves of the week: Topics include WCVB's election night coverage; the New York Times charging for online content; sympathy levels for outgoing NBC host Conan O'Brien; coverage of the Supreme Court's ruling on corporate campaign spending; and using political party surrogates as political analysts.

Over on the Don't Quote Me blog, our friend Adam Reilly has a good post on why, periodically, seemingly sure-thing Democratic candidates from Massachusetts flame out and blow up in big political races.

http://thephoenix.com/BLOGS/dontquoteme/archive/2010/01/19/brown-v-coakl...

The Massachusetts Senate race gains plenty of steam as recent polls revealed a much closer race than expected and won the attention of the national press. Did the polls reflect Republican Scott Brown's popularity or did they fuel his sudden momentum?

The Beat the Press panel offer their own rants and raves about the media this week - including WCVB-Channel 5’s handling of the Gail Huff-Scott Brown marriage; fallout from the NBC late night feud between Jay Leno and Conan O'Brien; Google's decision to no longer support China's censoring of searches; and media comparisons between former President Bush's response to Hurrican Katrina and President Obama's response to the Haiti earthquake.

Note to users: We're going to tackle polls and how they may have affected the stretch run in the Massachusetts US Senate race on "Beat the Press" this week, so I thought I would throw this out there.

The left-leaning blog Blue Mass Group has just released results of a new poll showing Democrat Martha Coakley with a 49 to 41 percent advantage over Republican Scott Brown with just 5 percent undecided.

BMG supports Coakley, of course, but says its poll is more accurate than other recent polls by Rasmussen Reports and Public Policy Polling. Those polls showed the race tighter, but relied on robo calls instead of live voter interviews. BMG says its poll was conducted by Research 2000 and relies exclusively on 500 person-to-person interviews with likely voters.

The poll shows Coakley's lead slipping considerably from the 15 point advantage she enjoyed in the last non-robo poll, which was conducted by the Boston Globe jsut before Monday's final televised debate.

Update: A new Suffolk University poll - which did not rely on robo-calls - has Brown up by four percent, 50 to 46. Technically its a statistical dead heat, since the result is within the polls' margin of error, but the consensus is that Brown is surging.