Subject: POLITICO's Morning Score: Preview of Perry press conference on Palestine--DCCC outrasies NRCC in August--DSCC launches online campaign--Bachmann fades to 5% in Gallup--Brooks and Penn pan Obama speech--Nader pushes primary challenge
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Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2011 04:31:39 -0600

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SNEAK PEEK - PERRY, BRACKETING OBAMA, WADES INTO U.N. FIGHT OVER PALESTINIAN STATE: The Deputy Speaker of the Israeli Knesset, Likud Member Danny Danon, will appear with Rick Perry at a New York press conference this morning ahead of President Obama's visit to the United Nations amidst the ongoing scramble to block Palestine's bid for United Nations recognition. Morning Score obtained an advance copy of the talking points Danon will speak from, which are highly critical of U.S. policy: "Despite Obama's declaration that he would bring change and lasting peace to the Middle East, nothing positive has happened since he was elected...None of these steps being taken by the Palestinians would
 have taken place had there been a friend of Israel in the White House. President Obama's poor and one-sided treatment towards Israel has led to the region being even less stable." Read the rest of his speech:
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MORE - PREVIEW OF PERRY'S REMARKS: The Associated Press got excerpts of Perry's remarks, which express strong support for Israel and blame Obama for emboldening the Palestinians to seek U.N. recognition as a result of his hard line with leaders of the Jewish state: 'We are indignant that certain Middle Eastern leaders have discarded the principle of direct negotiations between the sovereign nation of Israel and the Palestinian leadership. And we are equally indignant that the Obama administration's Middle East policy of appeasement has encouraged such an ominous act of bad faith...Our muddle of a foreign policy has created great uncertainty in the midst of the Arab Spring.' AP preview:
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http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=86df8b4ab571d82d9f300c94bad47e7bb4dff9f3c8f566dd06cefdcb846af950 . In case you missed it, Perry's op-ed in last Friday's Wall Street Journal:
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The latest, per ABC: "As leaders are arriving in New York, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and her allies are engaged in what she called 'intensive' diplomacy to present an alternative plan that would allow for the resumption of negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians and avoid a diplomatic showdown later in the week...One of Clinton's top aides, however, told ABC News in private that so far reporters 'should not be optimistic.'... Indeed, there were few public signs on Monday that the Palestinians could be swayed to halt their effort."
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As the DSCC launches a new ad campaign, Hoekstra outlines his path and the Feds move reject Texas' redistricted maps, here's POLITICO's Morning Score: your daily guide to the permanent campaign.

POPPING OVERNIGHT - DCCC OUTRAISES NRCC AGAIN: The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee raised $3.56 million in August, beating its Republican counterpart by about a half a million dollars despite being in the minority. Remarkably the DCCC has taken in more money year-to-date - $41.26 million - than the National Republican Congressional Committee - $40.38 million.
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EXCLUSIVE - DSCC LAUNCHES CAMPAIGN TO LINK REPUBLICAN SENATE CANDIDATES TO PERRY: The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee will use targeted online ads (Google) and social media (Facebook) to tie Republican Senate candidates around the country to Rick Perry's controversial rhetoric on Social Security, a sign of how potentially damaging Democrats think Perry could be to Republicans down ticket if he wins the nomination. The ads are partly meant to rally the base and raise grassroots money for the DSCC. The Democrats are also hitting Republican candidates for backing the Cut, Cap and Balance pledge - which they say would more indirectly leads to entitlement cuts. One reads: "Tell Perry
 Social Security Is Not a Ponzi scheme. Stand With the DSCC!" The committee is not revealing the size of the buy, although it is probably small and the cost will ultimately be determined by clicks.

BACHMANN FADES - NATIONAL SUPPORT DROPS TO 5%: In the new USA Today/Gallup poll, Michele Bachmann is in a three-way tie for fourth place with Newt Gingrich and Herman Cain - all at five percent. Weakness in national polls doesn't mean she can't still win Iowa, where she's essentially investing all her resources. Perry leads Mitt Romney 31-24 in the survey. "Perry is stronger among Republicans and independents who lean Republican, the voters who settle nominations. In a head-to-head race, 49% say they would vote for Perry, 39% for Romney," Susan Page writes in today's USA Today. "Romney does better among the swing voters who hold the key to most general elections. Among all registered
 voters, Romney slightly bests President Obama 49%-47%, while Perry lags behind the president, 45% to 50%."
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THE SPIN CYCLE CHURNS-ROLLINS HURTS BACHMANN AGAIN: Former campaign manager Ed Rollins said Bachmann doesn't have the resources to go past the first caucuses, a devastating indictment from someone who would be in a position to know. 'I think Michele, which always was the game plan, if she somehow for some reason could win Iowa, then she could get another look. Right now, she's competing hard in Iowa,' he said on MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell Reports. "She doesn't have the ability or the resources to go beyond that, Iowa, at this point and time, where Perry and Romney, with lots of money can go into South Carolina, Arizona, Florida and other places.' Video:
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The AP's Tom Beaumont: "Bachmann, who was scheduled to campaign Tuesday in Des Moines, said she is focused on Iowa. She declined to say whether she could compete beyond Iowa should she fail to win the caucuses." She did, however, attack Perry on immigration.
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The headline of today's Star Tribune story, filled with the voices of Iowa conservatives: "Iowans like Bachmann's energy but want to see a meatier campaign." Black Hawk County Republican Chairman Mac McDonald tells the paper: 'There's not a lot of substance.''
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WHO IS RAISING MONEY - RON PAUL MONEYBOMB BRINGS IN ANOTHER MILLION: His campaign said yesterday that he raised $1 million over a 24-hour period this weekend. That's his fifth million-dollar "moneybomb" this cycle. He pulled 13 percent in the national Gallup poll released yesterday.
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PREVIEWING THE 11:30 PRESSER - MAYORS WILL STRESS NEED FOR INVESTMENT: Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and dozens of other mayors will be talking jobs during a trip around D.C. today. The mayors start their day with Gene Sperling and David Plouffe at the White House before moving to Capitol Hill for meetings with Nancy Pelosi, Mitch McConnell and Harry Reid. At an 11:30 a.m. ET availability just outside of the White House, the message that the mayors will stress is that the biggest deficit facing the nation is the jobs deficit.

HOW OBAMA's DEFICIT SPEECH PLAYED -

PREDICTABLE CRITICISMS FROM THE RIGHT: CNN rounded up the statements of all the 2012 Republican candidates:
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PRAISE FROM MOST IN THE "PROFESSIONAL LEFT": "President Barack Obama finally gave his liberal critics exactly what they wanted," Carrie Budoff Brown and Ben Smith write. "His tough opening bid on deficit reduction and his feisty, defiant speech from the White House Monday were greeted with almost incredulous joy by progressives who have urged Obama to take this kind of hard line with Republicans since the day he was elected." (http://politi.co/nfqIep) MoveOn even offered up an ad of support, a 30-second spot called 'Buffett's Secretary," that will air on national cable later this week.
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BUT NOT EVERYONE IS HAPPY:

-MARK PENN SAYS OBAMA'S "CLASS WARFARE" IS DAMAGING HIS REELECTION CHANCES: "He should be working as a president, not a candidate," the former top Clinton aide writes in a column. "He should be claiming the vital center, not abandoning it. He should be holding down taxes rather than raising them. He should be mastering the global economy, not running away from it. And most of all, he should be bringing the country together rather than dividing it through class warfare." Penn warns that Obama is scaring away voters whose households make over $100,000 and backed him in 2008.
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-DAVID BROOKS SAYS "OBAMA REJECTS OBAMAISM": "This wasn't a speech to get something done," Brooks writes in his New York Times column today. "This was the sort of speech that sounded better when Ted Kennedy was delivering it. The result is that we will get neither short-term stimulus nor long-term debt reduction anytime soon, and I'm a sap for thinking it was possible...The White House gives moderates little morsels of hope, and then rips them from our mouths. To be an Obama admirer is to toggle from being uplifted to feeling used."
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-RALPH NADER WANTS A PRIMARY CHALLENGE AGAINST OBAMA: Ralph Nader and Cornel West circulated a letter to more than 150 liberals yesterday pitching a primary challenge against the president, outlining the progressive critique of the president's failures in the last two years. It was not a response to the morning speech, but pent up frustration. Still, more than 45 liberals - folks like Gore Vidal - signed on. Nader insisted in a phone interview with The Los Angeles Times' Mark Barabak that the goal of the effort is to galvanize the base by forcing the president to defend his performance, not to deny him the nomination or cost him the general election. But he would not rule out running as a
 third-party candidate again next year, describing it only as "very unlikely." The press release:
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http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=ad995664dff5e248d3e31e454c58f17fe0eaefad0ecc05658e7bc2c6ab6483ca . The six-page letter (more details on their beef):
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http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=ad995664dff5e248142856693a6b242943be115fb4da9e9c214f48b75aa93dc6 . The LAT story:
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MAYBE A LITTLE AWKWARD - OBAMA RAISES MONEY FROM RICH DONORS AFTER SPENDING THE DAY TRYING TO RAISE THEIR TAXES: Obama was expected to raise $2 million in New York last night, but the Wall Street Journal notes that "he didn't mention his plan to tax the rich, at least not in front of reporters. But he did allude to the controversy around his plan."
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SOLYNDRA UPDATES - SMITH CALLS FOR INVESTIGATION: Darren Samuelsohn looks at how masterfully the House GOP has played the scandal, timing leaks and avoiding over-the-top rhetoric for maximum political impact, as the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee called Monday for an independent investigator to look into how the bankrupt solar energy company got a $528 million loan approved by the Obama administration.
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Democrats, meanwhile, are crying hypocrisy. A story in today's New York Times notes that Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell "is one of several prominent Republicans who have worked to steer federal money to clean-energy projects in their homes states, Energy Department documents show."
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WHAT THE REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES ARE UP TO: Perry is obviously in New York. After his 10 a.m. press conference at the W Hotel on Park Avenue, he'll host a noon lunch fundraiser at the Harvard Club and a 5:30 p.m. reception at the Lotos Club. Bachmann continues her Iowa swing, with a 9 a.m. tour of a packing company in Des Moines. Ron Paul hosts a town hall in Council Bluffs at noon, another in Sioux City at 2 p.m. and a third in Spencer at 4 p.m. Newt Gingrich has a 2 p.m. town hall in Sioux City. Gary Johnson speaks at a diner in Keene, NH. Herman Cain is under the weather. Buddy Roemer is spending the day in North Carolina.

WHAT THE PRESIDENT IS UP TO: Obama has a series of diplomatic meetings in New York and then a fundraiser tonight.

MICHIGAN SENATE - HOEKSTRA STRATEGY MEMO: A two-page strategy memo (written for public consumption and shared with Score) presents a rosy picture for Pete Hoekstra as he ratchets up his campaign to win the Republican nomination for Senate in Michigan. Highlights from the note (written by John Yob, Fred Davis and Ed Goeas): "Fundraising is going well, and we are cautiously optimistic that we can reach a gross receipt number in the range of $400,000 to $500,000 in this first quarter of fundraising...At Pete's direction, we haven't hired any campaign staff yet, outside of our fundraising team...Tracking numbers that we have seen have the race with Pete around 50% and the rest of the candidates
 in single digits."

TEXAS REDISTRICTING - FEDS SAY MAPS DON'T COMPLY WITH VOTING RIGHTS ACT: "Lawyers for the U.S. Justice Department said two of Texas' controversial redistricting maps didn't comply with the Voting Rights Act's minimum standards, finding that the proposed changes to state House and congressional districts failed to maintain or increase the ability of minorities to elect their candidates of choice," per the San Antonio Express-News. "While the department's filing in federal court in Washington, D.C., on Monday isn't binding, it virtually assures that Attorney General Greg Abbott's lawsuit will head to trial. In the past, it has usually fallen to the department to certify that Texas'
 redistricting plans don't violate civil rights protections. Abbott bypassed that process by taking redistricting to the court."
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CONNECTICUTSENATE - DSCC READY TO ATTACK WHEN MCMAHON ANNOUNCES: The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee will send this press release out later from spokesman Matt Canter: "Linda McMahon tried to buy the election last year with more than $50 million dollars of attacks and negative campaigning. But even last year, when voters everywhere were electing Republicans, Connecticut voters said they didn't need a greedy CEO like McMahon who made her fortune by putting her own profits before the health and safety of her workers and marketing sex and violence to children. Nothing has changed about McMahon since voters resoundingly rejected her candidacy last year and she shouldn't be surprised
 when it happens again this time around."

ARIZONA SENATE - DEMS ATTACK FLAKE FOR ENDORSING ROMNEY: The state Democratic Party is seizing on the Senate candidate's endorsement of the former Massachusetts governor to paint him as a flip-flopper. "The only thing Jeff Flake and Mitt Romney both firmly believe in is saying anything to get elected," Arizona Democratic Party executive director Luis Heredia says in a statement. "That's why today's news that one flip-flopper has endorsed another infamous flip-flopper comes as no surprise to anyone who remembers Flake's transparently political move to drop his support for comprehensive immigration reform in favor of the Russell Pearce agenda."

THE ANN RICHARDS EFFECT - PRE-ELECTION POLLS UNDERESTIMATE THE SUCCESS OF WOMEN CANDIDATES: Two political scientists analyzed pre-election polls in 200 Senate and gubernatorial races from 1989 to 2008 where female candidates faced off against white males. They found that polls underestimate women's strength by about two points on average, which is statistically significant. Chris Stout and Reuben Kline call this phenomenon the Richards Effect for Ann Richards of Texas, and they discover that it is "more common in states which exhibit traits associated with culturally conservative views of gender issues." The (dry) journal article:
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http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=e689b949593c8308c252b9b21d34fcabc550ae079217fd26d18947e0434bd717 . The (more accessible) John Sides guest post on Nate Silver's 538 blog:
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CODA - QUOTE OF THE DAY: 'He's tall and he's from Texas.' - Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.), offering his opinion of Rick Perry after crashing a fundraiser for the Texas governor in his district.
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