Subject: POLITICO's Morning Score: Colorado GOP scrambles for Senate candidate — Utah Gov. Herbert on presidential race
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Date: Fri, 02 Oct 2015 08:08:46 -0600

By Elena Schneider | 10/02/2015 10:07AM EDTWith Kevin Robillard and Theodoric MeyerThe following newsletter is an abridged version of Campaign Pro's Morning Score. For an earlier morning read on exponentially more races - and for a more comprehensive aggregation of the day's most important campaign news - sign up for Campaign Pro today. (http://www.politicopro.com/proinfo)TODAY ON CAMPAIGN PRO - For the latest on the Colorado Senate race, Thursday night's Louisiana gubernatorial debate (which candidate went there), Donna Edwards' Maryland Senate debate proposal and what Utah Gov. Gary Herbert thinks about the presidential contest and his own primary challenger, check out the Pro version of
 Morning Score: http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=d984126e12e64d4f48046b43a0cc3c47eccb366d952f9681c9bef36b37467224 until the 2015 election: 32. Days until the 2016 election: 403.Thanks for joining us. Email tips to the whole Campaign Pro team at [email-masked], [email-masked], [email-masked], [email-masked] and [email-masked]. You can also follow us on Twitter: @politico_steve, @kyledcheney, @ec_schneider, @politicokevin and @theodoricmeyer. (Expect more Cubs tweets from me for the next week. Because Wild Card, and Cubs > Mets.) [Editor's note: Worry about the Bucs and the Cards first, Elena.]NOW AVAILABLE: POLITICO PRO EUROPE BRIEF - POLITICO Pro, POLITICO's premium subscription service, has launched a
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 back Democratic women who support abortion rights - back in March, and the group hasn't been shy about going after her most formidable primary opponent, former state House Speaker Pat Murphy. On Friday, EMILY's List plans to criticize Murphy for writing in a Facebook post this week in support of Planned Parenthood that he was "proud to have had their back throughout my legislative career." Murphy, the group notes, received a 0 percent rating from Planned Parenthood Voters of Iowa back in 2004, and a 100 percent rating from Iowa Right to Life. "Pat Murphy is trying to mislead voters into thinking that he has always stood up for women and families in Iowa, but that's far from the truth,"
 Rachel Thomas, an EMILY's List spokeswoman, said in a statement.PRESIDENTIAL SPEED READ - "Insiders: Sanders needs big money," by POLITICO's Katie Glueck: "Bernie Sanders rails against big money in politics and insists that he doesn't want an allied super PAC - but the majority of Democrats in early states say he can't rely on smaller-dollar donors alone if he wants to beat Hillary Clinton. That's the assessment of this week's POLITICO Caucus, our bipartisan survey of the top activists, operatives and strategists in the early states. This week, the Caucus has expanded to include South Carolina and Nevada in addition to our insiders already participating in Iowa and New Hampshire. ...
 Insiders from those states said that at best he could win a contest or two, but the big donations and unlimited contributions that a super PAC brings would be essential if his campaign stretches into the later stages of the primary season." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=d984126e12e64d4ff12b645824bf8c2e42dd220d8b0cbdb20f1c75e15cbcd680 "Bill Clinton's mission creep," by POLITICO's Gabriel Debenedetti in Boston: "Hillary Clinton's campaign had always planned to deploy the former president as a rainmaker this fall, and people involved with her fundraising operation expect him to start pitching in for the top pro-Clinton super PAC too. Yet - to no one's surprise - Bill (a.k.a. 'The Big Dog' in Clintonland) gradually is expanding his
 influence into other facets of her White House bid, using media interviews about his charity work to make the case for his wife's candidacy and, according to senior Democrats close to the campaign, quietly participating in high-level discussions about 2016. 'He's such a battery charger,' explained one longtime Clinton friend and Washington ally - changing the metaphor in mid-sentence to reflect the campaign's summer swoon. 'He's like paddles on the heart.'" http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=d984126e12e64d4fd25ce6410075fb2119211ebcc70d13669445716652e6d187 ABOUT ME? - "POLITICO Magazine: I'm trying to run for president, but the Democrats won't let me," by Lawrence Lessig: "I'm running for president. ... But that message is being stifled with
 the tacit approval of the Democratic Party leadership, who are deploying the oldest method available for marginalizing campaigns they don't like: keeping me out of the Democratic presidential debates." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=d984126e12e64d4f5a0deb06bc980cd29696723ff1e3f8f2d3d4948a6c47f087 CODA - QUOTE OF THE DAY: "The truth is, he left a lot of people at the altar." - Rep. David Jolly (R-Fla.), referring to state CFO Jeff Atwater, who initially signaled he would run for Senate, but suddenly jumped out of the race in April, the Tampa Bay Times reported. Now, Atwater said he might reconsider his exit and rejoin a crowded GOP primary, along with fellow Republican, Jolly. http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=d984126e12e64d4f688fac05ea71c27f90b7a318286ddf6d15c742d1c5aecdab To view
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