Subject: POLITICO’s Morning Score: Romney video links Perry to Jerry Brown—Cain accuser wants out of non-disclosure agreement—How this benefits Gingrich—Most big Bush donors not giving to Perry—Colorado ballot measure to raise taxes fails—TeamBoehner.com launches
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EXCLUSIVE - ROMNEY VIDEO SLAMS PERRY AS AN "AN INSPIRATION TO LIBERAL CALIFORNIA": A new web video links Rick Perry to California Gov. Jerry Brown by highlighting their "shared liberal positions on illegal immigration." The un-narrated video, just posted on careerpolitician.com, offers three examples: Perry was the first to give in-state tuition to illegal immigrants. He approved taxpayer-funded state aid for illegal immigrants attending college. And he still opposes E-Verify."
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DRIVING THE DAY - WILL THE NRA LIFT THE GAG ORDER ON ONE OF CAIN'S ACCUSERS? An attorney for one of the women who complained that she was sexually harassed by Herman Cain in the 1990s wants the National Restaurant Association to remove the non-disclosure language from her settlement. Joel Bennett, the attorney, says he will contact Peter Kilgore, the NRA's general counsel, today with his formal request to change the confidentiality provision. He contended Cain might have violated the terms of the agreement by discussing the settlement and offering some identifying details in interviews. Cain, in an appearance last night on Fox News, declined to say whether he would support the NRA's release
 of the woman from the gag order. "There are legal implications associated with that that I am not totally familiar with," he told Bret Baier. "We can't answer that right now." Jonathan Martin and your Morning Score correspondent report:
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NEW YORK TIMES - "CAIN ACCUSER GOT A YEAR'S SALARY IN SEVERANCE PAY": "The National Restaurant Association gave $35,000 - a year's salary - in severance pay to a female staff member in the late 1990s after an encounter with Herman Cain, its chief executive at the time, made her uncomfortable working there, three people with direct knowledge of the payment said on Tuesday... Four people with contemporaneous knowledge of the encounter said it had taken place in the context of a work outing during which there had been HEAVY DRINKING- a hallmark, they said, of outings with an organization that represents the hospitality industry."
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TWEET DU JOUR - Former Biden chief of staff @RonaldKlain: "Boring DC law job that became hugely interesting/important [in the] past 48 hours: General Counsel, National Rest. Assn."

WHAT'S NEXT? - CAIN EXPECTS ADDITIONAL ATTACKS: "As I have said, if something else comes up - AND IT WILL - they are going to make it up," Cain told Bill O'Reilly on Fox News last night. Earlier in the day, the candidate said there are additional "ridiculous" items in his accuser's complaint that have not been reported. Then he insisted he does not remember what these items were.

GOOD FOR FUNDRAISING: Cain's campaign reports raising more than $400,000 in donations on Monday, as many conservatives rallied to his defense:
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http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=22d77855e7845ed0d1f22142bfc925140ebb6026c297ec66c675282a282df558 . The campaign also tried to go on with a business-as-usual approach yesterday, rolling out this list of 15 new Florida state co-chairs:
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BACHMANN WARNS AGAINST "SURPRISES": "Michele Bachmann says her party can't have a nominee with 'surprises' in his record, a jab at rival Herman Cain as he defends himself against allegations of sexual harassment," the Associated Press reported last night from Marshalltown, Iowa, where the Minnesota congresswoman addressed a meeting of Baptists. "Standing in the pulpit of a Marshalltown church, she told supporters, in her words, 'This is the year when we can't have any surprises with our candidate.'"
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IOWA YAWNS - HARASSMENT STORY NOT BREAKING THROUGH...YET: "On the campaign trail, on local conservative talk radio and in conversations among activists, Republicans here have so far greeted the story with a shrug," Reid Epstein reports from Iowa. "Rick Santorum told POLITICO the issue didn't come up in 12 Iowa appearances Monday and Tuesday...Still, Santorum said the report is something Cain must address. 'That's an issue for Herman and he's got to work it out. Having been through the crucible before, it's not an easy thing to do,' he said. 'It's not my issue, it's his issue, and he's got to deal with it.'"
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PUNDIT PREP - PPP SAYS "NEWT POISED TO BENEFIT FROM POTENTIAL COLLAPSE": "If Cain's candidacy does implode in the coming weeks our numbers suggest the candidate poised to benefit the most is Newt Gingrich," Public Policy Polling director Tom Jensen writes, based on a review of his polling from over the weekend. "In North Carolina he's the second choice of 29% of Cain voters, compared to 16% for Romney, 15% for Perry, and 10% for Bachmann. In Maine he's the second choice of 26% of Cain voters to 17% for Romney and 15% for Perry." The Democratic pollster says his numbers suggest a lot of Cain's supporters were "already highly susceptible to abandoning him" before POLITICO's story on Sunday:
 "Only 46% of Cain's supporters in North Carolina and a paltry 25% in Maine said they were strongly committed to voting for him."
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A Quinnipiac poll out this morning shows Cain beating Romney head-to-head 47-39, but it is of limited value because it was taken from Oct. 25-31 - almost entirely before the sexual harassment allegations surfaced. Full results, which show some improvement in the president's job approval:
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FOR STAKEOUTS - CAIN'S SCHEDULE: Cain has an 8 a.m. press conference at the Northern Virginia Technology Council (1700 Tysons Blvd. in McLean), a 10:30 press conference for Docs4PatientCare (5000 Seminary Road in Alexandria), a 1 p.m. speech to the Congressional Health Caucus (Rayburn 2218) and a 2:30 p.m. meet-and-greet at the Capitol Hill Club (300 1st St. SE in DC).

** As Perry chalks up a viral video to passion, Nevada feels jilted and Arizona Republicans declare war on the state's independent redistricting commission, here's POLITICO's Morning Score: your daily guide to the permanent campaign.

VOTER PROTECTION -OBAMA CAMP MOBILIZES TO CHALLENGE NEW STATE LAWS: "The Obama re-election campaign has quietly opened a counteroffensive against Republican-backed changes to election laws that Democrats say will suppress votes for their candidates and limit their get-out-the-vote drives," today's Wall Street Journal reports. "The effort, led by former White House counsel Robert Bauer, prompted the suspension of an Ohio law limiting early voting. Campaign officials produced educational materials to counter a Wisconsin law that requires voters to produce photo I.D.s-but disallows those used by Wisconsin colleges. By this spring, the Obama re-election campaign will mount what Mr. Bauer called
 an unprecedented 'voter protection' effort, fielding thousands of volunteers in battleground states to help navigate new election laws, months earlier than past efforts."
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FUNDRAISING ANALYSIS - DONORS TO BUSH ABSENT FROM PERRY: "Fewer than one in 10 of the top fundraisers who helped George W. Bush shatter records for presidential campaign money in 2000 and 2004 have donated to Texas Gov. Rick Perry's 2012 presidential campaign, a Houston Chronicle analysis of Federal Election Commission data has found."
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ON THE AIR - PERRY GOES ON TV IN NEW HAMPSHIRE: The Perry campaign confirms they are putting money behind the "Doer" TV ad we told you about earlier this week, already up in Iowa, in the Granite State. No word yet on the size of the buy.

PERRY "FELT GREAT" - SAYS GIDDY N.H. PERFORMANCE GOT MESSAGE ACROSS: "Perry on Tuesday sought to downplay interest in a speech he gave Friday that has since gone viral, telling reporters in Iowa that he 'felt good' when he spoke and that he 'felt the message got across very well,'" CBS reports. "I guess you can do anything you want with a video and make it look any way you want, but I felt...the message got across very well," Perry said. The video:
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http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=e8a5b83b78f678a24e893b6484ec06214146b732f320ab960850fde4335b5b6e . The candidate's explanation:
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http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=e8a5b83b78f678a23d52106ae1fbe0219c963caffd8c127d61ad16c7e21617ea . The host of the event told the Hill that Perry was not drunk, as Jon Stewart suggested in a comedy skit:
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NEVADA TALKER - STATE IS NOW A LOWER PRIORITY FOR CANDIDATES: "The Nevada Republican Party's decision to shift the date of the presidential caucuses appears to have done little to alter the candidates' approach here - for the most part they still don't care about the Silver State," the Las Vegas Sun reports today. Only Romney, Paul, Cain and Perry have shown any willingness to build an organization: "To date, Republican candidates have three field offices and fewer than a dozen staff members in the state."
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WHAT THE REPUBLICANS (BESIDES CAIN) ARE UP TO: Santorum is in Iowa, with meet-and-greets in Sigourney, Williamsburg, Fairfield, Keosauqua, Ottumwa and Maquoketa. Bachmann hosts a teletownhall from Des Moines. Gingrich gives a speech to George Republicans.

WHAT THE PRESIDENT IS UP TO - STUMPING IN GEORGETOWN: At 11:25 a.m., per the White House Daily Guidance, "the President will deliver remarks at the Georgetown Waterfront Park, in front of the Key Bridge, urging Congress to pass the infrastructure piece of the American Jobs Act...In the afternoon, the President and the Vice President will meet with Senate Democratic Leadership in the Oval Office...In the evening, the President will depart for the G-20 summit in Cannes, France."

"THE FULL CINDERELLA TREATMENT" - WHITE HOUSE BYPASSES NATIONAL REPORTERS TO CHARM LOCAL TV ANCHORS: "Nine local TV anchors got the full Cinderella treatment from the White House, on a day that one likened to 'a whirlwind,'" per the Los Angeles Times' White House reporter. "Yes, they interviewed the president in the Cabinet Room on Tuesday. But they also got lunch with the president's top political advisor, David Plouffe; an on-camera tour of the White House main floor in the company of a curator; a visit to First Lady Michelle Obama's garden on the South Lawn; an interview with a White House aide from their home market...The day made for some awkward moments. Press Secretary Jay Carney
 skipped over some of the national press to make sure the out-of-town guests got a question at the daily briefing."
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SNEAK PEEK - ROMNEY CAMP TO MOCK PRESIDENT FOR COMMENTS: Boston will blast out a research document criticizing comments the president made in the interviews that they say strain credulity. Obama, for instance, told Minnesota's WCCO that the country has made "steady progress." He told Boston's WCVB that his jobs plan will create two million jobs. Other examples are pulled from his sit-downs with affiliates in Tampa, Portland and Hampton Roads. "President Obama has stepped off his campaign bus and taken the Magical Misery Tour nationwide," spokeswoman Andrea Saul says. "Unfortunately, more political rhetoric and blame-shifting can't make up for the abject failure of President Obama's policies
 over the last three years.

LAST NIGHT IN COLORADO - TAX HIKES FOR EDUCATION FAIL BIG AS VOTERS REJECT STATEWIDE BALLOT MEASURE: "If 2008 was an election for change, Tuesday night was an election for no change - with Colorado voters rejecting tax hikes and ballot initiatives and refusing to overhaul school boards," the Denver Post reports. "Voters resoundingly shot down the only statewide ballot measure, which would have raised taxes for nearly $3 billion in school funding. And Denver voters said no to a plan to mandate sick leave for all workers - an initiative that many businesses, Gov. John Hickenlooper and Denver Mayor Michael Hancock opposed...Whether Tuesday's results mean anything for the coming 2012 general
 election is anyone's guess. Early reporting shows Republicans were at the ballot box in greater numbers than Democrats. But Colorado political analysts don't think Tuesday's results have any bearing on how the state will vote for president."
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ARIZONA REDISTRICTING - REPUBLICANS GO TO WAR AGAINST INDEPENDENT COMMISSION: "Gov. Jan Brewer and the GOP-controlled state Senate on Tuesday touched off legal and political battles as they took the unprecedented step of removing the chairwoman of the Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission," The Republic reports from Phoenix. "On a 21-6 party line vote, the Senate gave the Republican governor the two-thirds majority vote she needed to oust Colleen Coyle Mathis, citing 'gross misconduct' in her role at the helm of the independent panel. The commission is in the midst of drawing new political boundaries for next year's legislative and congressional races."
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SNEAK PEEK - TEAMBOEHNER.COM LAUNCHES TODAY: House Speaker John Boehner will announce later today the launch of TeamBoehner.com, which his political team wants to make the center of his online fundraising and communications efforts. It will connect his Facebook page and Twitter feed. From a forthcoming release: "The platform, designed to engage and micro-target conservative activists across the country through petition drives and special events, will feature exclusive content, including policy updates and political strategy memos for top supporters. Badges, including a 'Buckeye Badge' for Boehner's Ohio supporters, can be earned through points awarded after completing a number of specific
 actions including sharing videos and liking Team Boehner on Facebook."

CHAMBER OF COMMERCE - ENGSTROM PROMOTED, REED HIRED: The Chamber of Commerce will announce today that Rob Engstrom will be promoted to Senior Vice President of Political Affairs and Scott Reed will be hired as a Senior Political Strategist. This comes from Bill Miller's departure last month. Reed served as national campaign manager for Bob Dole's 1996 presidential campaign and executive director of the RNC in the 1994 cycle.
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VEEPSTAKES - RUBIO ON THE TICKET COULD BE A GAME CHANGER IN FLORIDA: "U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio changes the landscape in Florida when added to the Republican ticket, according to a Suffolk University/7NEWS (WSVN-Miami) poll of registered voters in Florida," per Suffolk's announcement. "Assuming the selection of Rubio in the vice president spot, the Republican presidential nominee would secure 46 percent to President Barack Obama's 41 percent, with 2 percent voting for an independent candidate and 12 percent undecided...Without Rubio in the mix, Obama tied Mitt Romney at 42 percent...While Obama struggles in the low 40 percent range on job performance and head-to-head matchups with Romney and
 Cain, he rockets to 50 percent when Hillary Clinton is added to the Democratic ticket." Here is a minute-long clip of Rubio bracketing the president on Florida television last night:
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CODA - QUOTE OF THE DAY: "I don't know where this reputation of hard work came from. We never worked more than seven days a week, and on no one of those days have I ever worked more than 24 hours." - Dan Malloy chief of staff Tim Bannon, explaining the departure of three top aides to the Connecticut governor (including him).
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