Subject: POLITICO's Morning Score, presented by Pandora: POLITICO poll: America is anxious — GOP to widen 'who did you vote for?' strategy — On the trail with the 'kissing Congressman'
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Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2014 08:03:22 -0600

By Kyle Cheney

With James Hohmann

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POLITICO POLL - Anxiety reigns ahead of Election Day: Voters are on edge amid terrorism threats and an Ebola outbreak two weeks before Nov. 4, according to a new POLITICO poll of battleground states and Congressional districts. Alex Burns reports: "If no individual issue has come to define this election - like health care in the 2010 campaign or the Iraq War in 2006 - the accumulation of disparate fears has created a sense of pessimism and frustration across the midterm landscape." Highlights:

-- Terrorism: Eighty-four percent of voters say that the Islamic State poses a "serious" threat to the U.S. homeland, including 43 percent who say it poses a "very serious" threat ... Health care: Most voters believe their health care costs will go up under the Affordable Care Act ... Presidential management: Voters in the midterm battleground states are evenly split on whether President Barack Obama or George W. Bush was more effective at managing the federal government ... Ebola: Only 22 percent of respondents said they had a lot of confidence that the government is doing everything it can to contain the contagious disease. The story: 
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--- Ebola adding to distrust of Dems: Democrats are particularly at risk over the emerging ebola fears, the poll showed, with voters who back the GOP significantly less confident in the federal government's response to the virus. 
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FIRST IN SCORE - Crossroads ad rips Hays in AR-02: American Crossroads is on the air with a spot slamming Arkansas Democrat Pat Hays - who's running for the state's Second Congressional District - as soft on Obamacare, unwilling to call for its repeal. The ad is the second spot in a $1.5 million buy running through Oct. 28. 
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INSIDE THE VOTING BOOTH - Harnessing an attack that's put Democrat Alison Lundergan Grimes on the defensive in Kentucky, Republicans are planning to prod vulnerable Democrats around the country about their presidential votes in 2008 and 2012. Grimes has repeatedly refused to reveal who she voted for in either election, and Republicans think they've hit on a strategy that could deal body blows to other Senate Democrats. A big push, beginning a press blast this morning, will target Sens. Mary Landrieu, Mark Begich, Mark Pryor, Mark Udall, Al Franken, Jeanne Shaheen, Kay Hagan and Mark Warner. It's also aimed at challengers Bruce Braley and Gary Peters. A sample: 
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"Carter and Deal get personal in second debate," by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution's Greg Bluestein: "For months, Gov. Nathan Deal and Democrat Jason Carter have traded barbs over education and economic policy. But at Sunday's debate, both rivals unleashed new attacks that focused more on their rival's personal backgrounds than their policy positions as they intensified their appeal to the middle class. ... Deal called Carter a 'liberal' who had a skewed view of private enterprise, and he tried to paint the state senator as a novice who's had little private-sector or political success. Carter accused Deal of failing to tap Georgia's potential with a humdrum political agenda, and he raised
 questions about the governor's sale of a lucrative salvage yard.

-- "[C]andidates also sparred over whether Georgia is properly prepared for a possible Ebola case, as Deal's rivals criticized him for telling a newspaper last week that 'water kills the Ebola virus.'" 
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-- Cruz in Savannah this weekend: Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) will campaign with Gov. Nathan Deal and Republican Senate candidate David Perdue at a farm outside Savannah next Saturday on Oct. 25. Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) will be with Perdue in McDonough the day before.

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AIR WARS - Citizens United pushing anti-Hickenlooper film: Citizens United will launch a $210,000 ad campaign in Colorado tomorrow to promote its new anti-John Hickenlooper documentary. "Rocky Mountain Heist" was directed by Jason Killian Meath, who made the anti-Mitt Romney "King of Bain" documentary during the 2012 GOP primaries, and produced by David N. Bossie, the brains behind "Hillary: The Movie." The documentary, hosted by Michelle Malkin, looks at a group of four major donors who have helped make Colorado bluer and says liberals are trying to replicate the model elsewhere. The 30-second spot, shared first with POLITICO, focuses on the Democratic governor, who is in a tight race for
 reelection. 
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-- Scott hits Crist over Obama: Florida GOP Gov. Rick Scott is launching a new ad Monday that ties Republican-turned-Democrat Charlie Crist with Barack Obama, including a photo of their infamous 2009 embrace. Scott is the first gubernatorial candidate to deploy the clip of the president saying, "I'm not on the ballot this fall, but make no mistake: these policies are on the ballot. Every single one of them." "Charlie Crist backed Obama from the start," a narrator says in the 30-second spot, shared first with POLITICO. "If you liked the last six years of Barack Obama, you'll love the next four years of Charlie Crist." 
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-- Brown rips Shaheen on energy cost: Republican Scott Brown's releasing a 15-second ad this morning slamming Sen. Jeanne Shaheen for voting in 2013 on a budget amendment he says would tax carbon. "For New Hampshire making ends meet is getting harder to do. And Jeanne Shaheen? She voted to pave the way for a new tax on energy," a narrator says. 
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-- GOP ad targets Aiona's two rivals in Hawaii: The RGA-backed American Comeback Committee is out with a radio ad that, for the first time, hits the two opponents of Hawaii Republican Duke Aiona, the GOP nominee for governor. Though Republicans have long targeted Democrat David Ige, the unlikely winner of an August primary against incumbent Gov. Neil Abercrombie, they're now training their fire on independent Mufi Hannemann as well. Hannemann, a former Democratic mayor of Honolulu, who has registered in third in polls, is mentioned first in the ad. "Politicians like Mufi Hannemann and David Ige can't be trusted with our future," the ad concludes. 
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Star-Advertiser endorses Ige: The Democrat won the endorsement of the prominent newspaper over the weekend. 
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DISPATCHES FROM THE TRAIL - "On the road with the 'kissing congressman,'" by POLITICO's Burgess Everett in Tallulah, La.: "Vance McAllister dives in to the annual Teddy Bearfest street fair, caressing baby cheeks and hugging old ladies - the rare Republican showing and receiving affection in a crowd of African Americans. Not a single person in this city near the Mississippi border - nor at any other event on this scorching October day - takes McAllister to task for locking lips with an aide last December, an act of infidelity caught on video. 'This is blowin' your mind, isn't it?' the Republican says with delight. 'It's because I'm so approachable.'"

"As he gobbles banana cream pudding, McAllister later admits he's gained about 40 pounds. Before McAllister left for midterm recess, he says, House Speaker John Boehner buttonholed him: 'You're getting a little thick." McAllister attributes the gain to Washington's 'filet mignon.' Boehner's reply: 'You ever thought about getting the fish?'" 
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-- "How to blow an easy GOP win," by POLITICO's Jake Sherman from Marianna, Fla.: "It should've been an easy year for Rep. Steve Southerland, but instead of waltzing to reelection, the two-term congressman has served up a case study in how to blow a relatively safe Republican seat ... Even though this district is rural, conservative and a pocket of deep resentment toward D.C. Democrats, Southerland finds himself in a multimillion-dollar brawl with Election Day rapidly approaching. The contest has shocked Washington Republicans, who resent that they have to spend millions of dollars to prop up a member of the House Republican leadership in a district where President Barack Obama's approval
 ratings hardly crack 30 percent." 
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-- "Obama tries to energize base in Maryland," by POLITICO's Jennifer Epstein from Upper Marlboro, Md.: "President Barack Obama hit the campaign trail here Sunday, vouching for his law school classmate and Democratic gubernatorial candidate, Anthony Brown, even after he was interrupted by a pro-immigration reform protester ... The focus of Obama's remarks, though, was on encouraging the predominantly African-American crowd of 8,000 that filled the high school's massive gym and a smaller runoff room to get out and vote ... This is Obama country - Barack Obama Elementary School is just down the road, and close to 90 percent of votes cast here in the 2012 presidential election were for him,
 the best he did in any county in the state. The crowd was energetic in waiting for the president and in welcoming him to the stage, but once the president started speaking, the crowd began streaming out, a few at first, but then by the dozen once Obama was about 10 minutes into his talk." 
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-- "Wendy Davis and the ever-longer odds," by POLITICO's Katie Glueck from Dallas: "The closer Wendy Davis gets to Election Day, the more of a longshot her bid for governor seems. Her hometown newspaper endorsed her opponent in the Texas race over the weekend. The Supreme Court's decision to allow for a voter identification requirement has Democrats here even more worried about turnout. And in Texas political circles, the question is not whether Davis will lose, but by how much." 
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POLICY PRESCRIPTION - Wealthy donor puts muscle behind potential Republican agenda - The Washington Post's Jackie Kucinich reports on a big ad buy by a wealthy GOP donor who's worried about what he sees as a vacuum of policy ideas from Congressional leaders. John Jordan, a winery owner from California has an " 11-point policy prescription" for Republican leaders. "To promote the agenda, Jordan will begin running ads based on it through his new super PAC, Bold Agenda PAC."The ads began running on Sunday shows yesterday and will air today on MSNBC&#39;s Rachel Maddow show. 
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2016 WATCH - Warren revs up Iowa crowd: Sen. Elizabeth Warren's first visit to Iowa this year featured a rousing call for Democrats to turn out and a vigorous endorsement of Democrat Bruce Braley for Senate, according to the Des Moines Register. "On her first visit to first-in-the-nation Iowa of the 2016 presidential election cycle, Warren shared some of her personal history, but focused most of her speech on the benefits of government spending on education, infrastructure and research a generation ago," the Register's Jennifer Jacobs reports: 
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CODA - QUOTE OF THE DAY: "If there was going to be a tidal wave, we would've seen it by now," Democrat Stephanie Cutter on NBC's "Meet the Press," discussing GOP odds for huge gains in Congress.

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