Subject: POLITICO's Morning Score, presented by Pandora: GOP allies, DCCC drop new slates of ads - Ebola in NYC rattles campaigns - Baker surging in Mass? - Roundup of races at the FEC mid-October deadline
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Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2014 08:15:06 -0600

By Kyle Cheney

With Tarini Parti and Kevin Robillard

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EXCLUSIVE - American Action Network, Congressional Leadership Fund expand the map: The Republican allies are out with five ads in House districts that, in some cases, have been considered relatively reliable Democratic territory - from Hawaii and Iowa's First Districts, and Massachusetts's Sixth. The groups are spending a combined $20 million on races this month. The ads:

-- In HI-01, AAN's ad highlights Democrat Mark Takai's remarks on taxes in a 30-second spot supported by a $300,000 buy in the Honolulu broadcast market. 
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-- In IA-01, AAN hits Democrat Pat Murphy on taxes too. The spot is supported by a $500,000 buy in the Cedar Rapids broadcast market. 
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-- In MA-06, CLF hits Democrat Seth Moulton for investments in businesses that outsourced jobs and for remarks that criticized disaster assistance for fishermen. The $500,000 buy begins Saturday on Boston cable and broadcast networks. 
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-- In NY-01,, AAN assails Democratic Rep. Tim Bishop for a "history of corruption." It's the second spot in a $1.5 million campaign in the district. 
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-- In TX-23, CLF rips Democratic Rep. Pete Gallego as a steadfast backer of President Barack Obama. The ads are part of a $1.6 million campaign in the district between the two groups. 
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FIRST IN SCORE - DCCC drops slate of new ads, too: 

-- Two spots in AZ-02 hit Republican Martha McSally with the young and old. The first (
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http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=bbec527bf827ecdfb8c7d721241e67bac926b4543864d6918cd96bd4bb82a63c ) suggests she'd end student loans and the second (
http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=bbec527bf827ecdf2cedf764af8a1aa37e33a1aa248f988092f134348e0cc39f 
http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=bbec527bf827ecdf2cedf764af8a1aa37e33a1aa248f988092f134348e0cc39f ) says she'd privatize Medicare and Social Security.

-- In IA-01, the committee hits Republican Rod Blum on entitlements, accusing him of wanting to raise the retirement age for Social Security and, like McSally, of being willing to privatize it. 
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-- In IA-02, an ad hits Republican Mariannette Miller-Meeks for outsourcing priate-sector jobs overseas: 
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-- The DCCC also said it's adding to its buys in IL-10, IL-12, MN-08, NY-24 and WV-03.

THE NUMBERS - Baker surges in latest Boston Globe tracking poll: Republican Charlie Baker leads Democrat Martha Coakley in the Boston Globe's weekly tracking poll of Massachusetts gubernatorial race, 45 percent to 36 percent, the Globe's Jim O'Sullivan reports, the result of movement of independents into the Baker column. The poll is the first showing the race as anything but a near tie in recent weeks. 
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http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=bbec527bf827ecdff6ec553c3fa9c049a04110f13de17aae541b817ddce4ed95  Coakley's camp was quick to dismiss the result as an outlier. "[T]he Globe poll is the only public poll to show such intense volatility in the race for Governor, going from Baker up 3 three weeks ago to Coakley up 5 two weeks ago, to even last week and Baker up 9 this week.Every other public poll has shown a very stable campaign with very little movement over the past month," said Coakley aide Doug Rubin in a statement, who added that the campaign's internal polls show a margin-of-error contest.

-On cue, the Coakley aligned Massachusetts Independent Expenditure PAC released a poll conducted by Greenberg Quinlan Rosner research showing Coakley and Baker essentially tied among likely voters: 
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CASH RACE - RNC hauls in $8.1 million in first half of October: That's on top of a $5 million line of credit also available in the final stretch of the midterms. The group says it took out the line of credit to ensure that "committees and state parties had the necessary resources for the final days." The two-week fundraising total brings the RNC's total haul to more than $176 million for the cycle. The committee ended Oct.15 with $6.7 million on hand.

EBOLA GETS POLITICAL IN N.Y. - Confirmed New York case draws quick rebuke from GOP: Republican nominee for governor Rob Astorino jumped on the news, slamming President Barack Obama and Gov. Andrew Cuomo for refusing to ban travel from western Africa. 'Somehow political correctness was deemed more important than public safety," he said. 'I have been repeatedly calling on both President Obama and Governor Cuomo, beginning on October 7, to shut JFK and Newark to potentially infected passengers as matter of common sense. When President Obama refused, I called on Governor Cuomo to order his Health Department to shut down gates at JFK because they were a clear public safety risk. Nothing was
 done." The doctor who's apparently contracted the disease arrived at JFK from Brussles.

As candidates clash in tight Senate races and the Royals tamper with electoral expectations, here&#39;s POLITICO&#39;s Morning Score: your daily guide to the 2014 midterms.

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FIGHT NIGHT - Score's roundup of last night's debates:

NH-Sen: "Shaheen: Obama N.H. visit doesn't make sense," by Campaign Pro's James Hohmann: "Pushed Thursday night on whether she would want President Barack Obama to campaign with her as she seeks a second term, Sen. Jeanne Shaheen said it doesn't make sense and Obama is 'exactly where he needs to be' - in Washington. 'We have a lot going on,' Shaheen said during an hourlong debate with Republican Scott Brown at NH1's studio in Concord, New Hampshire, which was broadcast live on WBIN-TV ... Brown, as he did in their first debate on Tuesday night, repeatedly said Shaheen votes with Obama '99 percent of the time' - tying her to the president whose coattails swept her into office in 2008." 
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SD-Sen: A four-way debate focused heavily on Republican Mike Rounds - the former governor of the state - and his management of a controversial EB-5 visa program. The rundown from the Sioux Falls Argus Leader: 
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IA-04: A vicious debate between Republican Rep. Steve King and Democrat Jim Mowrer included fierce exchanges over military service and King's productivity in Congress. The Des Moines Register's take: 
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NY-23: The Elmira Star Gazette covers the testy debate between Republican Rep. Tom Reed and Democratic challenger Martha Robertson. Each accused the other, at times, of lying: 
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CT-Gov: NBC covers a Connecticut debate that included Democratic Gov. Dannel Malloy and independent Joe Visconti. Republican nominee Tom Foley did not attend: 
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MA-Gov: Democrat Martha Coakley and Republican Charlie Baker sparred over expanded gambling and issues important to western Massachusetts during an hour-long match-up last night. The Springfield Republican reports: 
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PIC DU JOUR - The Perdue Camp's tracker-shaming: 
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http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=7f5406198c378e70bc23e9a33ee9a826cced55349214205a64c5c2693451023d  (via AJC's Daniel Malloy)

SPORTS DOUBLE-TAKE -- Could a Royals World Series win be just the October surprise Gov. Sam Brownback and Sen. Pat Roberts needed? The Kansas City Star highlights research - also reported earlier in the week by Mother Jones - that a sports championship right before an election tends to brighten moods and rub off on incumbents to the tune of 1.5 percentage points or so. That could be critical in a pair of closely watched races in which the GOP incumbents are facing stiff challengers and races that could potentially be nail-biters. The Royals and Giants are tied at one game apiece; Game 3 is tonight in San Francisco.
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TODAY ON POLITICO - "&#39;Meltdown Mike&#39; gets emotional," by Alex Isenstadt from Murphysboro, Ill.: "In a year of consultant-scripted candidates, Mike Bost is defying the trend - in spades. The Illinois Republican's explosive behavior on the floor of the state legislature - paper-throwing, microphone-slamming, Bible-invoking tirades - have made him a YouTube sensation and one of the most controversial House candidates of 2014. But Bost, who also once hunted down and killed a beagle that bit his daughter, isn't apologizing. To the contrary: The candidate Democrats have dubbed "Meltdown Mike" is putting his emotion at the heart of one of the nation's most competitive and closely watched
 congressional races." 
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-- "Clinton takes a shot at banks, Walker," by Katie Glueck, with Maggie Haberman: "Hillary Clinton on Thursday sounded a sharply populist note as she framed herself as a foe of big banks and also took a veiled shot at potential 2016 opponent Scott Walker during a fiery speech in Minnesota. Clinton, the former secretary of state and possible 2016 Democratic front-runner, has been criticized by some on the left as being too close to Wall Street. But she took a tough, progressive line as she stumped for Sen. Al Franken and Gov. Mark Dayton, both Democrats who are expected to handily win their races, at an appearance at Macalester College in St. Paul." 
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TODAY ON CAMPAIGN PRO -- "Hogan giving Brown, Maryland Democrats run for their money," by Kevin Robillard: 
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AIR WARS - Ending Spending Action Fund is up with a new ad campaign in New Hampshire targeting Democratic Sen. Jeanne Shaheen that features her comments during a recent debate in which she said she approves of President Barack Obama sometimes and disapproves at others. The remark drew a laugh from the audience. The spot is part of the group's $1 million campaign in the state's Senate contest. 
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Progressives go after Brownback in Kansas: Progressive Kick, a super PAC, and National Nurses United have joined forces to turn out votes against Gov. Sam Brownback in Kansas, The groups, who say the Republican has made deep cuts to education and blocked health care access to thousands of Kansans, has launched a six-figure satellite TV and Pandora radio ad campaign. The TV ad, supported by a $144,000 buy. 
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CAMPAIGN INNOVATIONS - Campaigns & Elections is out with its "Influencers 50" list, highlighting the biggest - and sometimes the newest - names in politics that are changing the way campaigns are run. This year's list includes operatives from Targeted Victory, Code for America, Univision, the RNC, Pandora, Americans United for Change, Blue Labs and more. 
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FACTCHECK.ORG WHOPPER OF THE WEEK: The NRSC badly distorts the facts in a TV ad that says Rep. Bruce Braley "voted to raise taxes on every single Iowa taxpayer." The ad refers to Braley's 2010 vote against extending the Bush-era tax cuts for another two years. It was a protest vote. Braley, who is running for Senate in Iowa, opposed extending the tax cuts for individuals earning more than $200,000 a year ($250,000 for couples). Just because Braley cast a protest vote against that bill doesn't mean that he favored raising everybody's income taxes. In fact, he clearly didn't. A little more than two years later, Braley voted for the "fiscal cliff" deal that raised tax rates on those earning
 more than $400,000 a year ($450,000 for couples), and permanently retained the rates for all others. 
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-- Fact-checking the Iowa Senate race:
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CODA - QUOTE OF THE DAY: "I probably have the most anti-Obama district represented by a Democrat in the nation." - West Virginia Rep. Nick Rahall, to The New York Times. 
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