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Comparing the shock results of yesterday's Massachusetts election with the votes received by Obama and McCain in the 2008 Presidential election tells an interesting little story.

Why the Massachusetts Democrats are Browned off

Possum Comitatus

Jan 22, 2010

The Democrats' loss of the seat of Massachusetts in the US Senate ends the party's 60-seat majority and will see the Republicans launch an all-out attack on everything Obama, writes <b>David Hirst</b>.

The GOP: They’re baaack

Jan 20, 2010

Book publisher Hachette has hired a private detective to investigate how <em>The New York Times</em> got a hold of Ted Kennedy's memoirs -- apparently just by going down to the local bookstore -- 11 days before it was supposed to hit shelves.

Private Dick hired to sleuth Kennedy memoir leak

Sep 10, 2009

Naturally, every newsweekly worth its salt ran a commemorative Ted Kennedy cover last week. <em>Mediaite</em> wraps the contenders and grades each publication's attempts to pay tribute to Teddy.

The Ted Kennedy cover wars

Sep 07, 2009

<em>Crikey</em> readers weigh in on Peter Costello and whether the ABC does have an editorial bias, the late US Senator Ted Kennedy and the Northern Territory intervention.

Peter Costello and the alleged ABC bias

Comments, corrections, clarifications and cock-ups

Aug 31, 2009

Although no-one knows exactly what Ted Kennedy was worth, he died close to the peak of his wealth, and had hundreds of millions tied up in a complex system of blind trusts. <em>The Daily Beast</em> unravel the complex web to work out who gets what.

Who gets Ted Kennedy’s millions?

Aug 28, 2009

<em>Crikey</em> readers weigh in on nuclear power, John Howard and the High court, the death of Teddy Kennedy and messy Queensland politics.

John Howard and the High court

Comments, corrections, clarifications and cock-ups

Aug 28, 2009

Filling Ted Kennedy's US Senate seat looks set to be a complicated business. It could require legislative change and upset Obama's health reform plans in the process. <b>Tim Reid</b> explains.

Replacing Ted: the rocky road ahead

Aug 28, 2009

The dreadful truth of that night is well-known among Kennedy staffers and his surviving family, writes <b>Bob Ellis</b>. Teddy was nowhere near the car when the accident occurred.

Ted Kennedy and Chappaquiddick, the true story

Aug 27, 2009

Teddy Kennedy was the most Kennedy-esque of all his family. And it was because he never became president that he rose to greatness, argues <b>Bernard Keane</b>.

And so we farewell the lion of the Senate

Aug 27, 2009

So the lion of the Senate will roar no more -- and any number of DC cocktail waitresses can breathe a little easier today.

Vale Teddy, we may never see his like

Aug 27, 2009

In the wake of Ted Kennedy's death, refresh your memory about who's who in the famous Kennedy clam with <em>The Washington Post</em>'s visual guide to the complex web of relationships.

The Kennedy family tree

Aug 27, 2009

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