Subject: POLITICO's Morning Score, presented by Estrella TV: Campaign Pro’s first House rankings are out — Wisconsin Democrats say Feingold is in
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Date: Fri, 01 May 2015 08:01:53 -0600

By Theodoric Meyer

With Kevin Robillard, Steven Shepard and Caitlin Emma

The following newsletter is an abridged version of Campaign Pro&#39;s Morning Score. For an earlier morning read on exponentially more races - and for a more comprehensive aggregation of the day&#39;s most important campaign news - sign up for Campaign Pro today. (
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TODAY ON CAMPAIGN PRO - "Campaign Pro's 2016 House race rankings," by Steven Shepard, Theodoric Meyer and Elena Schneider:
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- "Wisconsin Dems think Feingold will run," by Campaign Pro's Kyle Cheney:
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FIRST IN SCORE - DCCC staffs up for 2016: The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee announced six hires on its communications staff on Friday. Christie Stephenson, a former director of broadcast media for American Bridge, the Democratic opposition research shop, is deputy communications director. The other five hires are regional press secretaries: Jeb Fain's got the Northeast, Sacha Haworth the Great Lakes, Jermaine House the South, Tyler Law the Mountain West and Barb Solish the West.

As the Indiana governor's race heats up, and Cuomo endorses Gentile after all, here&#39;s POLITICO&#39;s Morning Score: daily news, notes and essential information for the 2015 and 2016 election cycles.

Days until the 2015 election: 186; Days until the 2016 election: 557.

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SCORE INTERVIEWS - John Gregg on his second bid for the Hoosier governorship, for Campaign Pro subscribers:
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- Former Maryland Gov. Bob Ehrlich says he approves of Hogan's response: 
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GOP RIVALRIES - "In early horse race, Rubio threatens Walker," by POLITICO's James Hohmann: "Republican insiders in early-voting states say a crucial battle is emerging in the 2016 presidential race between Marco Rubio and Scott Walker, competing to establish themselves as the party's "bridge" candidate who can appeal to both the establishment and grass-roots activists. As it has become increasingly apparent that they are key rivals, the men have started taking regular, subtle but unmistakable, shots at one another. Walker talks about the need to nominate someone who is not from Washington and implicitly compares Rubio to Barack Obama. Rubio suggests that there is "no way" a governor like
 Walker is prepared to deal with global crises facing the United States. Dozens of interviews on the ground in the early states, backed up by recent polling, find many Republicans torn between Walker and Rubio." 
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BEHIND CLOSED DOORS - "Jeb Bush meets with House lawmakers," by POLITICO's James Hohmann and Lauren French: "Jeb Bush huddled privately with at least 15 House Republicans in Washington, the latest move by the Florida Republican to make inroads with the D.C. establishment. At least seven members of the Florida delegation came to see their former governor, who spent about half an hour inside a house on the 300 block of C Street Southeast in the Capitol Hill neighborhood on Monday evening. North Carolina Rep. Patrick McHenry, a deputy whip, arrived with Bush, who stopped on his way in to pose for a selfie with a mother and her daughter. Among the Florida members who came to see Bush were John
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CODA - QUOTE OF THE DAY: "I&#39;m not a big supporter of any females in politics. I don&#39;t think God desires them to be in leadership positions." - Voter Jack Miller told the Murfreesboro Daily News Journal why he cast a ballot for Rep. Scott DesJarlais (R-Tenn.) last year over Democrat Lenda Sherrell. 
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