Subject: POLITICO's Morning Score: Democrats' not-so-secret recruiting weapon - Report: Shapiro passes on Senate run - 2016 Speed Read
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Date: Tue, 26 May 2015 08:01:58 -0600

By Kevin Robillard

With Steven Shepard

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DEMOCRATS' NOT-SO-SECRET RECRUITING WEAPON - HILLARY: The Campaign Pro Triumvirate of Kyle Cheney, Elena Schneider and Theodoric Meyer have the story: 
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REPORT: SHAPIRO PASSES ON SENATE RUN: Democrats' first-choice candidate for the Senate seat held by Pennsylvania Republican Pat Toomey won't enter the race. Montgomery County Commissioner Josh Shapiro told the Philadelphia Inquirer's Tom Fizgerald he was "not interested in going to Washington to be a legislator at this stage in my career." Democrats in the state told Fitzgerald that Shapiro is instead eyeing a run for governor in 2018. Shapiro called Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, DSCC Chair Jon Tester, Sen. Chuck Schumer and Sen. Bob Casey to let them know his decision. 
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As Shapiro bows out and the GOP ponders their debate strategies, here&#39;s Campaign Pro&#39;s Morning Score: daily news, notes and essential information for the 2015 and 2016 election cycles.

Days until the 2015 election: 165; Days until the 2016 election: 536.

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2016 SPEED READ - 

-- "The Southern Republican Leadership Conference: 5 takeaways," by Alex Isenstadt in Oklahoma City: "Scott Walker's crash course in foreign policy is paying off ... The straw poll era is coming to a close ... Jeb Bush is directly confronting his weaknesses ... Chris Christie impressed ... The South is up for grabs." 
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-- "The GOP's debate problem: Forget about early state chicken dinners and candidate meet-and-greets. For many Republican White House hopefuls, their time might be better spent working cable TV green rooms," by Eli Stokols in Concord, N.H.: "'It's the [Donald] Trump problem,' said Florida GOP strategist Rick Wilson. 'He's an entirely un-serious candidate but one with very serious name ID.' ... A number of campaigns, speaking on background, are unhappy that the Republican National Committee, which decided to insert itself into the debate process early on by limiting the number of debates and spacing them out, appears to have kicked to the networks the more difficult and consequential issue
 of who participates. ... [C]ampaigns have cause to focus more effort and resources into building their candidate's national profile rather than meeting voters in retail settings." 
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-- "Where the media loves Hillary," by Hadas Gold: "Hillary Clinton may feel like the press hounds and harasses her, but there's one segment of the media from which she's getting the kind of coverage you just can't buy: women's magazines. ... a POLITICO review of several of the magazines' past few months of coverage suggests that readers will be getting a heavy dose of liberal cheerleading this campaign season ... "I just hope that these editors, which in my experience tend to be very liberal women, can take their blinders off and can see that there are lots of conservative issues women can embrace and lots of conservative women who can be celebrated," said Katie Packer Gage, a top campaign
 aide for Mitt Romney's failed 2012 presidential bid." 
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CODA - QUOTE OF THE DAY: "We aggressively pushed it on our platforms; we encouraged volunteers to share it. So it did, not to overuse the term, but it went viral and a lot of people have seen it." - Mark Kirk campaign manager Kevin Artl, on the campaign's first TV ad's digital presence. 
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