Subject: POLITICO's Morning Score, presented by Pandora: AFP hits Bennet on Colorado co-op failure – Debate takeaways in Milwaukee, Baton Rouge
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Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2015 09:03:59 -0600

11/11/2015 10:02 AM EDT

With Kevin Robillard and Theodoric Meyer

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)

FIRST IN SCORE - AFP hits Bennet on health care: The Koch-backed Americans for Prosperity will go up with an ad today, hitting Colorado Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet for his vote on the 2010 health care law after the failure of an in-state co-op. The ad urges voters to tell Bennet that "his vote for Obamacare is hurting Colorado, before your coverage is next to go," as an empty wheelchair is shown on the screen. "Senator Bennet said one thing and did another," said AFP Colorado state director Michael Fields. "When he voted for Obamacare he promised we'd be able to keep our doctors and health insurance, but with the Colorado HealthOp going bust, Coloradans are finding out that it just
 wasn't true." Watch "Turned Away" here: http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=02aed3bb7aa7dc6b2817a137232cbefd682c417de44e25cf9e7778f0a483256a

FIGHT NIGHT - "5 takeaways from the GOP debate," by POLITICO's Glenn Thrush: 1) GOP rediscovers Reagan's 11th Commandment ... 2) GOP rediscovers Reagan's foreign policy ... 3) Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz cruise ... 4) Jeb Bush was halfway decent - finally ... 5) The Taming of the Trump http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=02aed3bb7aa7dc6b6fc60413d75f02a8d6b4a821edb7dc8a586b38eadb6db0df

- "Insiders: Rubio wins, Kasich bombs," by POLITICO's Katie Glueck: "Marco Rubio won the fourth Republican debate - and John Kasich lost. That's the assessment of this week's POLITICO Caucus, our bipartisan survey of the top activists, strategists and operatives in Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina and Nevada. ... 'Energy,' said an Iowa Republican of Rubio. 'He wants the job.'" http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=02aed3bb7aa7dc6bcdc707a380863fdf006878d868dae5dbd95481ad31974f04

- "Jeb Bush stops the bleeding," by POLITICO's Shane Goldmacher and Alex Isenstadt in Milwaukee: "Jeb Bush didn't try to beat Marco Rubio. He set a lower bar: shooting to best his own panned past debate performances. And he succeeded, as top supporters declared a solid, mistake-free night in Milwaukee enough to wrap a 'tourniquet' on a campaign that been bleeding since the last debate two weeks ago. 'There's always nervous Nellies in every campaign,' said former Sen. Mel Martinez (R-Fla.), a Bush supporter spinning for the campaign in Milwaukee. 'If they needed it, tonight certainly should have reassured them.'" http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=02aed3bb7aa7dc6b5168301ba0a1b6d356520beaafd34660654b121a22257daa

THE OTHER DEBATE - "Sparks fly over negative ads, trackers in Louisiana governor debate," by Campaign Pro's Kevin Robillard: "Tuesday night's hourlong Louisiana gubernatorial debate was mostly about GOP Sen. David Vitter's attempts to poke holes in Democrat John Bel Edwards' moderate rhetoric, and Edwards' efforts to yoke Vitter to unpopular outgoing Gov. Bobby Jindal. Until the last five minutes. That's when the moderators steered the discussion to the various controversies - tough, negative television ads and opposing trackers and private investigators - in recent weeks of the campaign. While neither candidate explicitly mentioned the 2007 prostitution scandal that has damaged Vitter's
 approval rating in recent months and has given Edwards a shot at winning the governor's race in a deeply red state, it was an important undercurrent of the debate that bubbled over near the end.

- "You act holier than thou, 'Oh, we don't do negative campaigning,' when in fact you have the most vicious negative ad up right now that veterans have been offended by and asked you to take down," Vitter said during the debate, which was sponsored by Louisiana Public Television. "You're not living by the honor code, you're living by the lawyers' code, trying to parse words." The story, for Campaign Pro subscribers: http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=02aed3bb7aa7dc6b1cd60e27310c6adc309ca2eea4d46b97c1165463ced3e4a7 

- "Here's four takeaways from the first governor's runoff debate," by the New Orleans Times-Picayune's Kevin Litten: http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=02aed3bb7aa7dc6bf5eb2295e303ca176b4d9e1334aced3239cb517f0aa8032f

Days until the Louisiana runoff: 10. Days until the 2016 election: 363.

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GOT PLANS THURSDAY MORNING? - POLITICO's Steve Shepard will moderate a panel on "the New American Electorate: How will we know what they're thinking?" A conversation on the future of polling and how American voters are diversifying, becoming harder to reach, and less willing to participate in traditional telephone surveys. Featured speakers: Neil Newhouse, Partner and Co-Founder, Public Opinion Strategies; Margie Omero, Managing Director, Purple Insights; Patrick Ruffini, Co-Founder, Echelon Insights and Founder, Engage; Scott Keeter, Director of Survey Research, Pew Research Center ...When: Thursday, November 12 - Doors at 8:00 a.m. ... Where: The Grand Hyatt - 1000 H St. NW. 
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RULES OF THE GAME - FEC deadlocks on key super PAC questions: Can a potential Senate or House candidate form a super PAC before announcing his or her campaign? What about sharing plans with a super PAC before jumping into the race? It's not clear under the law, so Senate Majority PAC and House Majority PAC - the two flagship super PACs supporting Democratic congressional candidates - for asked the Federal Election Commission for answers. But the FEC deadlocked on those questions and three others on Tuesday, with the three Democratic commissioners unable to agree with the three Republicans, leaving the law up in the air. The FEC did agree on six less contentious questions raised by the two
 super PACs and seemed to reach tentative agreement on one more, which could allow super PACs to hold fundraisers with the candidates and as few as two or three other people.

- "Florida Supreme Court hears redistricting oral arguments," by POLITICO's Matt Dixon in Tallahassee, Fla.: "On the same day the Florida Supreme Court held oral arguments to consider a redrawn version of the state's 27 congressional districts, a congresswoman and vocal opponent of the plan threatened to go to the U.S. Supreme Court if needed to thwart the proposal. ... Jacksonville Democrat Corrine Brown has been a vocal opponent of the plan, which draws her seat in an east-west configuration from Jacksonville to Tallahassee. ... She has filed a federal lawsuit challenging the plan, but it will not move forward until the Florida Supreme Court approves a final map." 
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THE UNDERCARD DEBATE - "Christie, trying to rise above undercard rivals, punches at Clinton," by POLITICO's Eli Stokols: "A bit player in the first three prime-time debates, Chris Christie turned his demotion to the undercard Tuesday night into an opportunity to dominate the stage by looking past his three GOP rivals and taking aim at Hillary Clinton, who he mentioned in nearly every answer. ... But Christie's strategic performance - being the grownup in the room, focusing on drawing general election contrasts, refusing to get dragged into the mud by Bobby Jindal - might not be enough to catapult him back into the upper echelon of the Republican primary field, especially with the next
 debate more than a month away." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=02aed3bb7aa7dc6b14bde0fcc9939a4d7d4a722b9b424417aa4261d3a4ecedbb 

- Meanwhile, in Hillaryland - "Judge orders production of more Clinton records," by POLITICO's Josh Gerstein: "A federal judge set in motion a process Tuesday that could result in thousands more pages of emails and other records from former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's top aides being made public in the coming months as Clinton's presidential campaign rolls forward." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=02aed3bb7aa7dc6baa0048fdf7331af73bbdc25eecd353968476fc71cc409212 

CODA - QUOTE OF THE DAY: "I'm very hands-on: hundreds, even thousands of people have my cell-phone number." - Vitter during Tuesday night's debate. http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=02aed3bb7aa7dc6bb09a5a4998c4b2cbc2dba45e0fa2d3f57fa8ee2a3c1630a0

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