Subject: POLITICO's Morning Score, presented by Katz Radio Group: AFP double-whammy in New Hampshire — Cuccinelli non-committal on McDaniel challenge — New turn in Colorado fracking fight — FEC celebrity-spotting
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Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2014 08:10:59 -0600

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AD WATCH - AFP blasts Shaheen, Kuster: The New Hampshire branch of Americans for Prosperity is going up with ads today attacking Democratic Sen. Jeanne Shaheen and Rep. Ann McLane Kuster over Obamacare, the group said. Shaheen "helped create this mess we're in," a narrator says in the Senate ad, pointing to the lawmaker's record on the state and federal level (
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- Benishek airs first ad: In Michigan's 1st District, Republican Rep. Dan Benishek went up with his first ad of the cycle Wednesday, featuring a mom who says that she advocates for children with Down syndrome and that "Dr. Dan's never hesitated to support what we've asked. I think being a doctor makes him different." Produced by Dan Allen of Scott Howell & Company, the ad is running on broadcast and cable in Alpena, Traverse City and Marquette, according to the NRCC's Katie Prill. It's the latest political ad of the Obamacare-focused cycle to feature a candidate in doctor's garb, a trend Bloomberg's Greg Giroux recently examined. 
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- Veterans' group backs Braley on fuel standard: The liberal-leaning veterans group VoteVets.org is dropping $250,000 on an ad buy in Iowa praising Democrat Bruce Braley for supporting the Renewable Fuel Standard. "Congressman Braley knows more renewable fuels means more jobs for Iowans. It's that simple," James Marren, a Vietnam veteran from Des Moines. "I'm proud of Bruce Braley. He stands up for Iowans and delivers." Braley and VoteVets teamed up in January to deliver a pro-RFS petition to EPA. The liberal Americans United for Change has already gone after Republican Joni Ernst on the RFS, a popular policy in this corn-heavy state. Watch the spot, which also praises Braley for opposing
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SCF CHIEF NON-COMMITTAL ON McDANIEL CHALLENGE: Ken Cuccinelli, president of the Senate Conservatives Fund, declined Wednesday to say whether he thinks a Chris McDaniel challenge could succeed in Mississippi. "I'm too far away from that to be able to say," he told POLITICO last night after McDaniel's presser. "They really have to analyze that for themselves." He complained that McDaniel is not getting help accessing voter records that would let him know "the hard number of double votes." Cuccinelli, the former Virginia attorney general, noted that he's gone through a recount himself (in a state legislative race) and been in a lawyer in recount cases.

- "McDaniel lawyer: Expect runoff challenge within 10 days," by The Clarion-Ledger's Geoff Pender: "Attorney Mitch Tyner said that despite 'roadblocks' to access of voting records that have required lawsuits against county circuit clerks, the campaign has uncovered widespread illegal voting. He said it&#39;s already enough to support a legal challenge of the Republican runoff, but the campaign is still gathering evidence and will not yet provide specifics. ... 'Mississippians are ready to move on,' [Cochran adviser Austin] Barbour said. ... [McDaniel ally and state Sen. Michael] Watson on Wednesday said political race baiting in the campaign was 'gross' and 'hurtful' and has 'set us back 50
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- "FEC Filing: Pro-Cochran PAC Funded Black Outreach," by AP's Emily Wagster Pettus and Philip Elliot: "[Former Gov. Haley] Barbour, a political giant in his state and a favorite of national donors, backed Mississippi Conservatives and his nephew Henry Barbour was a top official there. Mississippi Conservatives sent almost $145,000 to All Citizens for Mississippi, a late-to-arrive group that urged black voters to turn out for the June 24 runoff ... The Barbour-led group was the sole source of money for the outreach efforts toward black and Democratic voters. The group spent $111,000 in the final weeks of the campaign to highlight Cochran&#39;s support for historically black colleges and for
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SCF GOING UP IN KANSAS: POLITICO's Alex Burns: "Senate Conservatives Action, an arm of the national activist group Senate Conservatives Fund, has reserved several hundred thousand dollars in airtime in [Kansas Sen. Pat] Roberts' reelection race. The longtime incumbent faces a challenge from SCF-endorsed physician Milton Wolf, among other candidates. Two media tracking sources confirmed that the group is poised to start a fresh round of ads; one buyer said Senate Conservatives Action had already booked $209,000 in TV time, with that number still likely to grow." 
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POLITICO SPEED READ: "Paul eyes tech-oriented donors in Bay Area," by Darren Samuelsohn: 
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THE BIG THREE - "Udall, Hickenlooper, Romanoff all come out against Polis' ballot measures after compromise fails," by KDVR's Eli Stokols: "Democratic Gov. John Hickenlooper, who'd tried for more than three months to negotiate an agreement to give local communities more control over fracking without allowing them to ban drilling altogether, announced Wednesday that he would not be calling a special session to pass the compromise draft bill, a story FOX31 Denver first reported Tuesday night. Hickenlooper was motivated by policy implications, not wanting to enshrine oil and gas regulations that could devastate the state's $29.5 billion oil and gas industry in the state constitution, as well
 as political implications, with Democrats worried that the industry's campaign against the ballot measures could help Republicans this fall.

"[Sen. Mark] Udall, regarded as a conservationist, has the most at stake this fall. Moments after Hickenlooper's official statement on the compromise falling apart, Udall issued a statement that he opposes the ballot initiatives, which are being pushed by Democratic Boulder Congressman Jared Polis, who has already spent millions in support of the initiatives that would quadruple the distance wells must be set back from homes and schools and create an environmental bill of rights for local communities." 
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SHAKES FIST - "Data Delayed Is Democracy Denied," by Center for Responsive Politics senior fellow Robert Biersack in a New York Times op-ed: "On May 21, about a month after reports for the first quarter of this year were filed, the research and technology teams here at the Center for Responsive Politics did a routine download of F.E.C. data, as we've done hundreds of times in our 30-year history. ... For years, the F.E.C. has said in its strategic planning documents that it would complete 95 percent of its processing within 30 days of a filing deadline. So when we downloaded the F.E.C. files on May 21, we believed that virtually all reports from 2014 House candidates submitted by April 15
 would be included. We were shocked to find, however, that information for 347 of the 703 active House candidates for the first quarter of the year was missing. We asked the F.E.C. if something unusual - an information technology crisis, perhaps - had occurred. The response was much more disturbing: The agency told us it simply hadn't finished processing the filings. We'd never heard that one before." 
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MORNING CRUNCH - "The hidden barrier to a Republican Senate majority," by Kyle Kondik of Sabato's Crystal Ball (which will announce a partnership with POLITICO today): "If Republicans are to win the Senate, they probably are going to have to do something they haven't done since 1980: beat more than two Democratic Senate incumbents in November." 
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FIRST IN SCORE: Citizens United's PAC is wading into the August runoff for Oklahoma Rep. James Lankford's likely successor, endorsing former state Sen. Steve Russell over state Corporation Commissioner Patrice Douglas and chipping in $5,000 for Russell, the group said today. Citizens United has a mixed record in the contested primaries where it has spent money this cycle (
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QUICK HITS ACROSS THE MAP -

IA-Sen: Republican Joni Ernst raised $1.78 million in the second quarter and reported $1 million on hand, her campaign said, while Democrat Bruce Braley raised almost $1.7 million and reported $2.7 million on hand, according to his campaign. 
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TN-Sen: GOP Sen. Lamar Alexander raised $867,000 in the second quarter and reported $3.4 million on hand, while primary challenger Joe Carr raised $217,000 and finished with $442,000 on hand. 
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CA-Gov: The Times' Adam Nagourney takes a closer look at Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown's increasingly prominent "wily opponent": House Majority Leader-designate and fellow Californian Kevin McCarthy. 
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MI-Gov: Trackers with the state GOP used a pair of glasses with a hidden video camera to tape a fundraiser for Democrat Mark Schauer. 
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TX-Gov: Contributors during the latest fundraising period included David Koch and Donald Trump for Republican Greg Abbott and actors Jennifer Garner and Matt Damon for Democrat Wendy Davis. 
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