A ROUNDUP OF Newbery and Caldecott Award Winners.

JIM TREACHER: Tucker wants me to write about Coakley, but I’m just not sure there’s a humorous angle there.

The picture’s from Quincy, Illinois. But we’re seeing something similar in Quincy, Massachusetts.

FROM MARK BLUMENTHAL, a Massachusetts wrapup. “So for me it boils down to this: I was a Democratic consultant for long enough to want to believe that Coakley can still prevail, and there is still a remote chance that the polls in this race will be as misleading as they were in New Hampshire. However, my head is not my heart. Barring another polling meltdown, Scott Brown is the likely winner.”

UPDATE: Mark Steyn: “Well, as a wintry election day dawns in Massachusetts, I’ll believe it when I see it. If all but one of those polls are right, Scott Brown now has a lead well beyond the margin of error. But, as that Boston Globe ‘Dead Heat!’ headline suggests, it’s not necessarily beyond the margin of Acorn, the margin of lawyer, and the margin of Franken-style recounts. On the other hand, if you’re minded to (as MSNBC’s electokleptomaniac Ed Schultz recommends) steal the vote, you don’t really want to have to steal it big, on a Mugabe-esque scale.”

THE PERILS OF poor judgment.

THE DESPAIR of Orville Schell.

LET HAITIANS vote with their feet?

PAUL GOODMAN: “The humanitarian catastrophe in Haiti is turning out to be a classic illustration of anti-Americanism in seven easy steps.” Like I said, I thought electing Obama was supposed to put an end to that sort of thing.

UPDATE: Reader Gordon Agress writes:

Are we sure our guys are doing so great? We’re hearing a lot of complaints about the prioritization of flights through the airport bottleneck. I read the other day that Bill Clinton arrived in a 757, and that Hilary’s arrival crowded out an aid plane. I would think we could get our own bigwigs in with less disruption — smaller planes, both on the same plane, in on aid-carrying C-130s, helicopters. And I’m not reading many stories of imaginative transport solutions — personnel via ‘copter, staging through Gitmo, bringing people and stuff onshore in light boats or landing craft.

I know it’s a tough, tough job, but sitting here in the peanut gallery I’m not blown away by the quality of our organization.

Well, I can’t tell. Bigwigs should travel on flights bringing aid, and if we had a better class of bigwigs that would be a given. But in anything like this, however well-executed, lots of things are going to go wrong, because that’s the nature of the beast. Have we exceeded that threshold? I have no idea. Regardless, claims that we’re trying to carry out some sort of stealth takeover of Haiti seem rather farfetched. We’ve controlled Haiti before, didn’t like it, and gave it back. Haiti’s best defense against invasion is that if you seize Haiti . . . then you have Haiti. I mean, if this were St. Bart’s or Bonaire you’d have something, maybe, but . . . .

PROF. WILLIAM JACOBSON will be live-blogging the election today.

MORE ON POLITICAL INTERFERENCE AT THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT and the New Black Panther case.

MICKEY KAUS: “Even the liberal Obamaphile Jacob Weisberg wouldn’t vote for Coakley (because of her role in the Amirault case).”

IT’S ALL ABOUT THE NARRATIVE: “A large majority of Americans say they want a smaller government that provides them with fewer services, according to a new poll from the Washington Post and ABC News. But the Washington Post story about the poll makes no mention of this fact.”

IMPERIALISM? France accused the US of “occupying” Haiti on Monday as thousands of American troops flooded into the country to take charge of aid efforts and security. Yeah, that’s what it is. Jeez. Perhaps the French can send their own aircraft carriers, floating seaports, and massive logistical teams, then. Oh, wait . . . .

I did think, though, that the election of President Obama was supposed to put an end to this kind of talk.

UPDATE: The French should have read Varifrank years ago.

MARK STEYN: “However things turn out, the Dems have got a fright.” Plus this: “Very foolishly, Obama both underlined the regal hauteur of the Massachusetts machine – and simultaneously nationalized the election by portraying it as a referendum on the Hopeychange. If Martha now loses, he can’t plead it’s nothing to do with him.”

AN UNFORTUNATE KENNEDY REFERENCE: “Why would you hand the keys to the car back to the same guys whose policies drove the economy into the ditch and then walked away from the scene of the accident?” Oops.

ROSS DOUTHAT: For a brief shining moment, late in the 2008 campaign, Democrats thought that they might own the Internet. “A year later, some of the Democrats’ advantage is still there. But it’s been crumbling ever since Obama took office. Republican politicians have taken over Twitter. Sarah Palin has 1.2 million followers on Facebook. And in liberal Massachusetts, Scott Brown, the Republican Senate candidate, has used Internet fund-raising to put the fear of God into the Bay State’s establishment.”

VALENTINE’S DAY kitchen gifts? Seems a little early for this, but . . . .

DESPERATION? Coakley supporters assault cameraman.

JOE SCARBOROUGH slams Keith Olbermann.

UPDATE: Heh.

OUCH: “Coakley is the female John Kerry—without the charm.”

Plus, a reader emails: “Maybe you could remind folks in MA to bring their camcorders to all the polling stations and to the various ACORN headquarters.” Be careful about shooting in polling stations, though.

BILL WHITTLE: A Tale of Two Walters.

MASSACHUSETTS: Bay State’s Blue-Collar Blues.

IS THIS SMART? Obama to double down if Brown wins. Plus this: “Follow the link for more on how they’re planning to blame Coakley (justifiably) and wage class warfare on Wall Street, because if there’s one thing Tim Geithner’s Treasury Department can’t stand, it’s giant investment banks.”

RON FUTRELL: Mr. Ed, MSNBC and Voting in Mass. Ten Times — ‘Psycho Talk’. Reader C.J. Burch writes: “It’s not psycho talk. They mean it.”

OOPS: Carville poll: Only a third of voters support Barack Obama’s national health-care plan.