Subject: POLITICO's Morning Score, presented by Pandora: Matt Bevin’s solo, underfunded campaign — Rep. Pete Aguilar’s fundraising numbers
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Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2015 08:29:45 -0600

By Elena Schneider | 10/12/2015 10:28 AM EDT

With Kevin Robillard and Steven Shepard

The 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 - "Can Matt Bevin's unconventional, underfunded campaign prevail?" by Campaign Pro's Kevin Robillard in Middletown, Ky.: http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=e907cd03d9b579857a46a4c0de076a3451893763aa552760336bde7e9ea50506

FRANKEN TO HOST FUNDRAISERS FOR STRICKLAND - Minnesota Sen. Al Franken will join former Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland for fundraisers early this week, according to a source close to the Strickland camp. The former Saturday Night Live performer will appear at fundraisers in Cleveland on Monday and Akron on Tuesday. Strickland had about one-tenth of the cash on hand that incumbent GOP Sen. Rob Portman did at the end of the second quarter. 

FIRST IN SCORE - Rep. Pete Aguilar pulls in $385,000 - The Democratic incumbent also has $829,000 in cash on hand, his campaign confirmed. It's a slight drop from the second quarter when Aguilar raised just over $400,000. Paul Chabot, his 2014 Republican challenger, has not yet released his fundraising numbers.

Days until the 2015 election: 22. Days until the 2016 election: 393.

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FIRST IN SCORE - AN APP FOR THAT - Brigade has launched an interactive Ballot Guide that will help voters gain personalized voting recommendations and recruit friends to vote themselves. It will be available in San Francisco and Manchester, N.H., ahead of the 2016 election. More details here: http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=e907cd03d9b579856caf529da69ab2ab96b9a59c5efd067c9529d10473cc945a 

FLORIDA FALLOUT - Even as Rep. Daniel Webster eyes a run for House Speaker, his district may not look anything like it once did. Catch up on how Circuit Circuit Court Judge Terry Lewis changed the map in Florida with a full rundown from POLITICO's Florida Matt Dixon: http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=e907cd03d9b5798593c4125d6e285e14f7ff49e051e9bcbb083b5af59bb237d1

TALL TEXAS TALES - Wendy Davis may not have won the 2014 Texas gubernatorial race, but she's still cashing in on the experience with an in-development NBC show that's loosely based on her life, according to the San Antonio Express News. The show, which doesn't have a title yet, will be "in the vein of the Good Wife." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=e907cd03d9b5798585fe3f7fef30f0720c1d3cfede03e73cbbd9ca08afe3468f 

PRESIDENTIAL SPEED READ - "Paul's all-too-familiar campaign," by POLITICO's Daniel Strauss: "The 2016 Republican presidential race was supposed to go something like this for Rand Paul: He would assume the mantle of his father's libertarian movement, broaden it by bringing in new constituencies and compete on an expanded map. He would be the candidate to take the liberty message to the mainstream, something Ron Paul could never achieve. Things haven't gone as planned. ... What's worse, Paul's map is contracting, not expanding - his best prospects for victory appear to be in low-turnout caucus states where a small core of committed supporters can carry the day." 
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ON THE PRIMARY - "The GOP is throwing away millions of dollars," by Patrick Ruffini, in POLITICO Magazine: "Snuffing out Donald Trump's candidacy may lower the rest of the Republican field's chances of beating Hillary Clinton. To bring Trump down a peg, the field is likely to double down on strategies - like heavy spending on negative TV ads - that may win the primary but simply won't work as well in November. Democrats, meanwhile, are busy building a vast organization to replicate President Barack Obama's data-and-field driven juggernaut and take it even further. ... But how you choose to win the primary can help you prepare for the general election." 
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- "How Could Hillary Lose," a POLITICO Magazine symposium, with contributions from from Jeff Greenfield, Stephanie Cutter, Rick Wilson, Paul Begala and others: http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=e907cd03d9b579851d6bfe54eac1ea5012efd9bdd7792b569d5d4fe0f35d076e

CBS NEWS POLL - "Poll: Donald Trump still leads, Ben Carson in second," by CBS News' Anthony Salvanto, Jennifer De Pinto, Sarah Dutton and Fred Backus: http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=e907cd03d9b57985fa04a8d106420530b6bacd549032ad14191811951dccbaac

- Updated standings for the Oct. 28 CNBC debate show 10 candidates qualifying for the main stage, with Chris Christie (3.6), John Kasich (3.6), Mike Huckabee (3.2) and Rand Paul (3.0) above the 2.5-percent threshold. An undercard debate would be composed of Rick Santorum (0.8), Bobby Jindal (0.4) and George Pataki (0.2) - none of whom are close to crashing the top-tier debate.

ON YOUR MARK - "Guess who's polling on Hillary?" by POLITICO's Annie Karni: "Mark Penn is no longer Hillary Clinton's chief strategist and pollster, but her former campaign guru is still putting polls about his old boss into the field - the ultimate insider is testing theories on how to make her electable during an outsider election. The controversial consigliere of Clinton's first presidential run now oversees the Stagwell Group, a private equity firm with $250 million in assets that on Thursday announced it had made its first purchase , the consulting firm SKDKnickerbocker. But Penn, who also served as Bill Clinton's longtime pollster, has not given up his passion for polling presidential
 elections - or testing the waters for Hillary." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=e907cd03d9b579853290a54643cd9dc7ed2050efc38bbd4a754592cbf388826e

CODA - QUOTE OF THE DAY: We just started to advertise - actually, the Right to Rise PAC started to advertise, not our campaign." - Jeb Bush, mixing up his formal campaign with his super PAC. http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=e907cd03d9b579853085098b12a18b11eb5c7515185b0ad6f7f6417d7c4400cf

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