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By Emily Schultheis (eschultheis@politico.com; Twitter: @emilyrs)

With Jose DelReal

THE BIG PICTURE-GOVERNORS LANDSCAPE: As governors descend on D.C. for the National Governors Association meeting this weekend, your Score correspondent looks at the 2014 gubernatorial map: "Of the Republican governors swept into office on the GOP wave of 2010, all of whom are now facing reelection, several are fighting uphill battles-and Democrats are confident they'll pick up at least some seats in November. Pennsylvania's Tom Corbett's approval rating stands in the 30s or even in the 20s in some polls; Maine's Paul LePage faces a three-way race with a strong Democratic recruit, and his penchant for gaffes hasn't helped; Florida's Rick Scott, despite having almost $25 million in the bank,
is consistently down in the polls. But there are other reasons for the GOP to be optimistic about avoiding big losses in gubernatorial races. A trio of Midwestern governors who are high on Democrats' target lists-Wisconsin's Scott Walker, Ohio's John Kasich and Michigan's Rick Snyder-are posting big fundraising numbers, leading in the polls and facing Democratic opponents who are still relatively undefined and unknown."
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FIRST IN SCORE-LCV NAMES JOLLY TO 'FLAT EARTH FIVE': The League of Conservation Voters is poised to get involved in the special election for Florida's 13th district, Score has learned. Next week, the group will name Republican David Jolly as the first member of its 2014 "Flat Earth Five" program, its list of targets among GOP House candidates who do not acknowledge evidence of climate change. In 2012, LCV targeted Reps. Dan Benishek (MI-01), Dan Lungren (CA-07), Joe Walsh (IL-08), Ann Marie Buerkle (NY-24) and Francisco Canseco (TX-23)-and four of the five candidates ended up losing their seats that year. LCV officials wouldn't comment on the amount they're planning to spend against Jolly
yet-but in 2012, the group spent $3 million on this program as a whole. With all the outside money in and attention on the Florida race in its final weeks, LCV could have a big impact, depending on how much it spends.

MORE IN FL-13: The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee's latest ad in the race hits Jolly over his position on abortion:
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THE WALKER SCANDAL SNOOZER: POLITICO's Elizabeth Titus looks at how the emails of Scott Walker's aides aren't grabbing the public's attention the way other politicians' scandals have: "A trove of the Wisconsin governor's aides' emails released this week so far appear to contain few of the elements of a career-damaging digital scandal. Instead, the most serious accusations involve campaign laws more likely to elicit yawns than outrage. Even ordering a public employee axed over shots of her in a thong got more eye-rolls than anything else. It's as if, to borrow from Daniel Patrick Moynihan, the controversies of recent years are defining digital deviancy down. Whereas once an embarrassing
email could do some major damage, the Republican governor is following in the footsteps of pols who have raised the bar on what is truly shocking."
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As Greg Abbott gets more heat for campaigning with Ted Nugent, an Olympic snowboarder endorses Mead Treadwell and Harry Reid likens himself to a pregnant high-jumper, here's POLITICO's Morning Score: your daily guide to the 2014 midterms.

DAYS UNTIL THE ELECTION: 256.

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Good Friday morning and welcome to Morning Score. As always, send your tips, thoughts, and suggestions to eschultheis@politico.com or tweet them to @emilyrs.

FRIDAY STANDINGS-Here's Morning Score's take on how some of the most important candidates, campaigns and political players should answer the question: Are you better off now than you were a week ago?

YES: (1) Chris Christie, who held his own at a town hall meeting Thursday without any mention of Bridgegate; (2) Billionaire environmentalist Tom Steyer, who got a lot of attention for his plans to spend big on midterm races across the country (3) Georgia GOP Gov. Nathan Deal, who will soon be getting help from a new super PAC launched to aid him in his reelection bid.

NO: (1) Scott Walker, who had to deal with headlines about the emails released in the John Doe investigation, despite the fact that they're unlikely to cause lasting controversy; (2) Michigan Democratic Rep. Gary Peters, who's now getting the AFP treatment in his Senate race; and (3) Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott, whose gubernatorial campaign has dealt with the fallout from inviting Ted Nugent to campaign with him.

COMMITTEE FUNDRAISING NEWS-DCCC OUTRAISES NRCC: The DCCC outraised its Republican counterpart in January, according to figures from both committees. The DCCC brought in $6.8 million, compared with $6.1 million for the NRCC. Democrats have $32 million on hand, compared with $24 million for Republicans; neither committee has any remaining debt.
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PENNSYLVANIA GOVERNOR-WAGNER GETS IN: An already huge Democratic primary field got bigger Thursday, when news broke that former state auditor general Jack Wagner is planning to run. He'll be the eighth candidate in the race to face off against GOP Gov. Tom Corbett; others in the race include Rep. Allyson Schwartz, state treasurer Rob McCord, businessman Tom Wolf and former state environmental protection secretary Katie McGinty. Wagner is the only candidate to hail from western Pennsylvania, with its vote-rich Pittsburgh area; he's known statewide but also lost the 2010 gubernatorial primary to Dan Onorato (
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CHRISTIE BACK IN THE SPOTLIGHT: POLITICO'S Maggie Haberman reports from Chris Christie's first big public event since the Bridgegate press conference last month: "For 105 minutes, everything was right in Chris Christie's world. The New Jersey governor held court, theater-in the-round style, at his 110th town hall on Thursday, his first since his administration was rocked by scandal. ... This time, a more restrained Christie was on display. ... There were no questions about the federal or state legislative investigations into Bridgegate, the infamous traffic jam heard 'round the country that a handful of his aides set in motion in Fort Lee, N.J. last year. But that topic hovered over the
forum - some 18 television cameras lined up to catch any Christie utterance about it - and was never far from the minds of reporters seated a few rows away from Christie. The event was the first extended interaction Christie had with voters since his marathon, two-hour press conference in January after he fired a top deputy whose emails revealed she'd ordered up 'traffic problems in Fort Lee.''
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LIGHTER CLICK-Joe Newman, age 101, is planning to become the country's oldest congressional candidate when he launches a write-in campaign against GOP Rep. Vern Buchanan in FL-16.
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ACROSS THE MAP-Quick takes from races around the country:

SENATE-

-IA-Sen: Democratic Rep. Bruce Braley became the first candidate in the Senate election to visit all of Iowa's 99 counties.
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-MS-Sen: The Club for Growth is out with a new ad hitting incumbent GOP Sen. Thad Cochran over his vote to raise the debt ceiling.
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-AK-Sen: Olympic snowboarder Ryan Stassel is returning from Sochi to endorse Republican Lt. Gov. Mead Treadwell in the Senate primary.
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HOUSE-

-AR-01: Heber Springs Mayor Jackie McPherson, a Democrat, is running against GOP incumbent Rep. Rick Crawford.
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-CA-35: State Sen. Norma Torres, a Democrat, will enter the race for the newly vacated seat.
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-FL-19: Only three candidates turned in signatures to get on the ballot for the special election so far: Republican state Sen. Lizbeth Benacquisto, GOP businessman Curt Clawson, and Democrat April Freeman.
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-ID-02: The U.S. Chamber of Commerce endorsed incumbent GOP Rep. Mike Simpson.
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-CA-17: The San Jose Mercury News is calling on incumbent Democratic Rep. Mike Honda to debate his primary challenger, Ro Khanna.
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GOVERNORS-

-IL-Gov: Illinois Freedom PAC is out with a second ad hitting Republican candidate Bruce Rauner:
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-TX-Gov: Annie's List released a video attacking GOP candidate Greg Abbott for campaigning with rocker Ted Nugent.
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-FL-Gov: RNC Co-chairwoman Sharon Day ripped into Democrat Charlie Crist, calling him a 'political opportunist' and a 'serial politician who can't be trusted.'
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-PA-Gov: Democratic businessman Tom Wolf is out with another new ad, this one focusing on the state's lack of a natural gas extraction tax.
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