Subject: POLITICO's Morning Score, presented by CIT: Seven-figure ad buy hits Shaheen in New Hampshire - Obama seeks to revive economic theme for midterms - Rock the Vote spends on satirical ad campaign
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Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2014 08:04:12 -0600

By Kyle Cheney

With Darren Samuelsohn and Tarini Parti

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First in Score: Ending Spending is on the air pummeling New Hampshire Sen. Jeanne Shaheen for missing Foreign Relations Committee meetings that may have helped shed light on ISIS' growing threat. "In a dangerous world, we need policies focused on keeping us safe," a male narrator says with ominous music and images of Middle Eastern militants in the background. "Call Jeanne Shaheen and tell her we need her to show up, be tough on terrorists and debate America's response to these threats." The ad, running on broadcast and cable states, as well as online, is supported by a seven-figure buy from the Ricketts-funded for the next week. It sources its accusations to a recent Boston Herald article
 calling out Shaheen for missing hearings. In the story, aides defended her absences by noting that the Senate often scheduled conflicting meetings and events. The ad: 
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SCOOPLET - GOP launching 'one-click" donation tool: John Cornyn and Sarah Palin are among the GOP heavyweights piloting a new one-click donation tool set for release today. Its developers say it "could shake things up a bit" for the party&#39;s online fundraising efforts. The donate.gop tool is inspired by technology pioneered in President Barack Obama&#39;s 2012 campaign and allows Republican donors to enter their information once and have it stored for future visits on a variety of GOP causes, from campaigns to ballot initiatives. It's free to use through the 2014 midterm cycle, aside from a basic transaction fee.

-- "Political tech's 'arms dealers,'" by POLITICO's Darren Samuelsohn: "It might be hard to fathom in today's partisan times, but some political technology firms don't care if their clients are Democrats or Republicans. Preaching bipartisanship, civic responsibility and just good old free-market American capitalism, a small but influential set of consultants is thriving off the growing demand for tech-savvy campaigns determined to find any advantage with potential donors and voters ... Still, if the partisans had their way, every campaign would take a purity test using consultants who stay on one side of the aisle. Just as a PR firm wouldn't represent both Coke and Pepsi, partisans bluntly
 warn against doing business with someone who also works for the enemy. They risk exposing their donor lists to other campaigns or just seeing a good idea sold down the line to a future candidate from the opposite party." 
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RACE TO NOVEMBER - "Obama to hit economic themes," by POLITICO's Edward-Isaac Dovere from Chicago: "After two months consumed by foreign turmoil, President Barack Obama will kick off a final month of midterm campaigning by trying to refocus the country on the economy. Obama will start Thursday with a campaign event here for Gov. Pat Quinn, who's battling for reelection, and then travel with the governor a few miles north to Evanston, where he'll speak to business students at Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management. White House press secretary Josh Earnest said the speech will be a bookend to Obama's United Nations speech last week, calling the economy speech 'a similarly forceful case
 for American strength and leadership at home.'" 
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NEW NUMBERS - Democratic firm sees tied Senate race in Iowa: Democrat Bruce Braley leads Republican Joni Ernst by a statistically insignificant margin, according to the poll of 800 likely voters by Greenberg Quinlan Rosner. Braley grabs 47 percent support to Ernst's 46 percent, and the race is increasingly divided by gender, with Braley leading Ernst by 7 points among women and Ernst leading by 6 points among men. The poll carries a 3.5 percentage point margin of error. 
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As Republicans talk policy and Kansas continues to soak up the spotlight, here&#39;s POLITICO&#39;s Morning Score: your daily guide to the 2014 midterms.

Days until the election: 33

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AIR WARS CONT'D -Anti-abortion group hits Hagan again: Women Speak Out PAC, which is affiliated with the anti-abortion group Susan B. Anthony List, is going back on air with an ad it released over the summer targeting North Carolina Democratic Sen. Kay Hagan for having a 'fringe position' on late-term abortion. The spot, which is backed by $620,000, will air for 11 days starting Oct. 7. Watch the ad: 
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THE ISSUES - GOP seeks to shed idea-less image: Acknowledging that many voters associate Republicans with a platform of opposing Democrats at all costs - with no discernible platform of their own - RNC Chairman Reince Priebus will deliver a speech this morning laying out "principles" driving the party's governing agenda. "Election Day is only 33 days away and many people say they know our party opposes President Obama&#39;s and Democrats' policies, but that&#39;s because we have new ideas to solve the country&#39;s problems- bottom-up solutions founded in the free market, compassion, responsibility, and the idea that America is headed for better days," a party spokeswoman told Score,
 characterizing the focus of the 9 a.m. address at George Washington University. The RNC has a new website accompanying its plan: gopprinciples.com. 
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TURNOUT TACTICS - Rock the Vote is launching a $250,000 ad campaign intending to motivate young people to get to the polls - in part by infuriating them. A series of satirical ads that will run on broadcast networks in North Carolina, Florida, Wisconsin, Michigan and Ohio features actors playing the roles of sexist, war-mongering, anti-environment or anti-youth voters, often urging young people against going to the polls. Rock the Vote has dubbed it the "Care Like Crazy" campaign. The ads will also run on Comedy Central and websites popular among young adults, from YouTube to Facebook to Pandora. 
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CASH RACE - Mass. Dems seek to bailout Coakley's cash-poor campaign, Globe reports:  Abysmal September fundraising for Martha Coakley, the Democratic nominee for Massachusetts governor, has the state's Congressional delegation preparing to send their own cash to prop up the struggling campaign, the Boston Globe reports. But not everyone on the 11-member team wants to play ball. "At least three of them have initially balked at the idea, however, exposing some of the problems Coakley faces in getting full support from the Democratic establishment as she and the party struggle to close a fund-raising gap with GOP rival Charlie Baker and the state Republican Party," the Globe's Frank Phillips
 and Jim O'Sullivan report:

"[Rep. Bill] Keating is hesitant to donate the full $25,000 that was requested because he faces a Republican opponent, John Chapman, in next month's election and says he must focus on that fight, say Democratic officials ... "[Rep. Stephen] Lynch, of South Boston, said his hesitation is based in part on the fact that he depleted much of his existing campaign funds last year in his failed US Senate bid ... But Lynch also acknowledged that his decision to make a donation will be influenced by district politics. Coakley had prosecuted two political figures, former state Representative Brian P. Wallace of South Boston and former state Treasurer Timothy P. Cahill of Quincy ... "That doesn't
 help,'' Lynch said. "But it won't be determinative of the level of any donation I make."

"As it grapples with how best to approach the final weeks before Election Day, Coakley's team has convened a meeting Thursday for about 20 Democratic strategists from outside the campaign." 
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KANSAS SPEED READ - Polls, courts deliver bad news for GOP:  First, a Suffolk University/USA TODAY poll found Republican Sen. Pat Roberts and Republican Gov. Sam Brownback trailing their Democratic rivals (
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RATINGS CHANGES - Republicans will be pleased (mostly) with the latest round of ratings changes from Sabato's Crystal Ball. On the Senate map, Iowa moves to "leans Republican" from "tossup," Colorado moves from "leans Democratic" to "toss-up," and Montana and West Virginia move from "likely Republican" to "safe Republican." Only Kansas moves away from GOP incumbent Pat Roberts and into the "toss-up" column. In governor's races, Massachusetts moves from "leans Democratic" to "toss-up," South Carolina moves from "leans Republican" to "likely Republican," Alaska moves from "leans Republican" to "toss-up" and Pennsylvania moves from "likely Democratic" to "safe Democratic." And in the House,
 ME-02 moves from "likely Democratic" to "leans Democratic" and ND-At-Large moves from "safe Republican" to "likely Republican." 
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CODA - QUOTE OF THE DAY: 'There are simply not enough hours in the day to raise money, campaign, run their offices, and sleep.' - Hank Sheinkopf, a Democratic media consultant, to National Journal on why candidates entrust staff to handle day-to-day campaign operations - some of which have been wracked by plagiarism allegations. 
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