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KOCH-LINKED VETS' GROUP GOES BIG IN IOWA: Concerned Veterans for America is launching a $2.4-million ad campaign in Iowa highlighting Democratic Senate candidate Bruce Braley's attendance record at House Veterans' Affairs Committee meetings, the group said today. The TV ad is backed by seven figures and is going up statewide today, said the Koch-network group in a news release. Digital ads and direct mail make up the rest of the campaign, said spokesman Bill Turenne.

- The news comes on the heels of a Des Moines Register report that in 2011 and 2012, Braley "missed 75 percent of meetings ... including one meeting on a day he attended three fundraisers for his 2012 campaign" (
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ALASKA SUPER PAC EXPANDS TO RADIO: Less than a month from Alaska's Republican Senate primary, a pro-Dan Sullivan super PAC is adapting its latest TV ad to radio, operative Art Hackney said Thursday. The Alaska's Energy/America's Values ad is going up today statewide, backed by $80,000, Hackney said. The minute-long radio version drops the Joe Miller and Ted Stevens mentions and sticks to Republican Mead Treadwell and Democratic Sen. Mark Begich. "I'm really tired of Mark Begich and Mead Treadwell attacking Dan Sullivan," a woman says in the ad. "Dan is as Alaskan as it gets."
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SENATE DEMOCRATS BRACE FOR WALSH FALLOUT - POLITICO's Manu Raju and Burgess Everett: "Despite a mountain of evidence suggesting that Walsh may have obtained a key academic credential improperly, the party leadership, Montana Democrats and members of the rank-and-file closed ranks behind the appointed senator - arguing that voters should overlook a relatively minor mistake when weighed against his military service in Iraq and career serving his country. Or, as Sen. Jon Tester put it, 'He's a soldier, not an academic.' ... Republicans expressed new confidence in Daines' chances following the Wednesday report - and some Democrats privately agreed. 'It's over,' one senior Democratic Senate
source said Thursday."
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- Next steps: The War College "sent a letter to the senator instructing him that an investigative panel will meet next month to conclusively assess any culpability," The New York Times reported:
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As the GOP takes digital stock, Crossroads gets fact-checked and Michelle Kwan triple toe-loops into the Rhode Island governor's race, here's POLITICO's Morning Score: your daily guide to the 2014 midterms.

Days until the election: 102.

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TODAY ON POLITICO PRO - "The GOP's digital dilemma," by Darren Samuelsohn in San Francisco: http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=aec1fae6eed283e6306ad4ddb8fe748f4f9ed34afa2369b85a760c3272140550

SPEED READ - "Obama Campaign Vets: Pay Us $5,000 To Learn - And Work On A Campaign," by BuzzFeed's Evan McMorris-Santoro: "Run by [Jeremy] Bird and [Mitch] Stewart's consulting company, 270 Strategies, the new program's emphasis on placing paying customers in essentially volunteer roles on Democratic campaigns is atypical in the campaign training industry, and some Democrats say it sets a dangerous precedent. ... The program's website describes a six-week program, consisting of five days of 'intensive' campaign training at 270's Chicago HQ featuring Stewart and Bird and other 'architects of the 2008 and 2012 Obama campaigns,' followed by five weeks of volunteer work on an 'an important
Democratic campaign in the United States.' The cost for the five-day training with Bird and Stewart is $3,500. It costs $1,500 more if a student wants the five weeks of work experience. ... Lynda Tran, 270's top communications strategist, said that the $5,000 fee would not be paid by all participants. 'We are offering full scholarships and discounts to participants on a case-by-case basis,' she said. ... To Mikey Franklin, a former progressive field staffer who's now trying to end the D.C. practice of unpaid internships, asking people to pay to to volunteer goes against progressive values. ... 'How will we win for the 99% if we only recruit from the 1%?'"
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"Conservatives Hone Script to Light a Fire Over Abortion," by The New York Times' Jeremy Peters: "Republicans acknowledge that their communication on women's issues has been inadequate, especially considering that Democrats have skillfully co-opted words like 'choice,' 'freedom' and 'health.' 'That was one of the top five public relations coups of all time: making their movement pro-choice and purging the ugly word "abortion" from the lexicon for decades,' said Kellyanne Conway, a Republican pollster who has conducted research on women's issues for anti-abortion groups and the Republican National Committee. ... [T[he Susan B. Anthony List has said its political action committee will commit
$3 million in Arkansas, Louisiana and North Carolina ... The group recently hired a polling firm to test messages. It found that when it told Florida voters that a Democratic candidate for an open House seat there, Alex Sink, did not support limiting abortion after five months, women in Democratic households shifted their support toward the Republican in the race, David Jolly. ... 'The best way to talk about the life issue is to have female candidates talk about it,' said Elise Stefanik, who won a Republican congressional primary in upstate New York last month and campaigned as an opponent of abortion."
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FACTCHECK.ORG WHOPPER OF THE WEEK: This week's whopper goes to Republicans and their allies who label vulnerable Democratic senators as supporters of a carbon tax based on flimsy evidence. The latest example: Crossroads GPS says in a TV ad that Colorado Sen. Mark Udall "voted to enact a carbon tax." He did no such thing. The vote referenced in the ad was on a failed amendment to a nonbinding budget resolution. The amendment would have required any possible future carbon tax to be revenue neutral, with the tax proceeds being returned to the American people. In other words, Udall voted to support making a hypothetical tax revenue neutral. We've seen similar bogus attacks on Sens. Kay Hagan of
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QUICK HITS ACROSS THE MAP -

AK-Sen: Republican Mead Treadwell raised $164,000 during the second quarter and reported $167,000 on hand, his campaign said, less than primary opponents Joe Miller or Dan Sullivan.
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LA-Sen: Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu told POLITICO on Thursday that she opposes her party's border-aid package.
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MI-Sen: The Detroit Free Press reviews the outstanding questions about Republican Terri Lynn Land's newly disclosed joint account with her husband, "from which she has drawn $2.9 million for her race."
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MS-Sen: An exchange between the Clarion-Ledger and Republican Chris McDaniel's spokesperson over campaign-finance questions got testy.
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RI-Gov: Figure skater Michelle Kwan starred in a TV ad for her husband, Democrat Clay Pell.
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CODA - QUOTE OF THE DAY: 'People in New York City wander around, walk around, and they look at Port Authority Bus Terminal, they look at Penn Station, and they can't understand why these places are still miserable shitholes after billions and billions in dollars in spending." - Tim Wu, Zephyr Teachout's running mate in the New York gubernatorial primary, at a press conference urging Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo to answer questions about the Moreland Commission.
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