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AD WATCH - Crossroads attacks Hagan on debt ceiling: Crossroads GPS released a new ad overnight attacking Sen. Kay Hagan (D-N.C.) for voting to raise the debt ceiling. The ad opens with footage of Hagan speaking on the Senate floor. "We can't continue to just grow the debt and run huge deficits each year with the expectation that our children will pay the bill," she says. Then a narrator cuts in: "But Sen. Kay Hagan keeps voting to raise the debt limit, and future generations will be forced to pay even more." It ends by asking viewers to urge the lawmaker to support a balanced-budget amendment. The ad is part of a $3.5-million campaign Crossroads began this spring, spokesman Paul Lindsay
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- First look: Two weeks out from Tennessee's primary, GOP Rep. Chuck Fleischmann is going up with a TV ad featuring former rival Scottie Mayfield going after Fleischmann's current primary opponent, Weston Wamp, over a secret-recording controversy that flared up earlier this year (
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MONTANA SPLASH - NYT's Jonathan Martin turns up evidence Sen. John Walsh (D-Mont.) plagiarized War College thesis in 2007: "In an interview outside his Capitol Hill office on Tuesday, after he was presented with multiple examples of identical passages from his paper and the Carnegie and Harvard essays, Mr. Walsh said he did not believe he had done anything wrong. ... On Wednesday, a campaign aide for Mr. Walsh did not contest the apparent plagiarism but suggested that it be viewed in the context of the senator's long career. She said Mr. Walsh had been going through a difficult period at the time he wrote the paper, noting that one of the members of his unit from Iraq had committed suicide
in 2007, weeks before the assignment was due. The aide said Mr. Walsh, who served in Iraq from November 2004 to November 2005, had 'dealt with the experience of post-deployment,' but said he had not sought treatment.

"Later, the senator, in an interview with The Associated Press, contradicted the aide, saying that he was being treated for post-traumatic stress disorder when he used the authors' work without credit, and that he would consider apologizing to the scholars for doing so. He said he was currently taking antidepressant medication. After The New York Times published the article about Mr. Walsh's paper online on Wednesday, the War College's provost, Lance Betros, a retired brigadier general, said in a telephone interview that the college would begin an investigation immediately."
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- AP: "Justin Barasky, spokesman for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, said the committee stands behind Walsh. 'John Walsh is a decorated war hero, and it's disgusting that Steve Daines and Washington Republicans are going to try denigrate John's distinguished service after multiple polls show him gaining,' Barasky said. Daines spokeswoman Alee Lockman said she had just seen the Times' report and had no immediate comment."
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RATINGS CHANGES: In the wake of the Walsh news and recent polling, Sabato's Crystal Ball moved Montana Senate to "likely Republican" from "leans Republican." West Virginia Senate made the same shift. Iowa Senate moved to "tossup" from "leans Democratic." Michigan Senate and New Hampshire Senate moved to "likely Democratic" from "lean Democratic." And Minnesota Senate moved to "leans Democratic" from "likely Democratic."
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As Obama fundraises, Perdue's camp dissects the win and Sullivan gets a Stevens comparison, here's POLITICO's Morning Score: your daily guide to the 2014 midterms.

Days until the election: 103.

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TODAY ON CAMPAIGN PRO: "Hoyer: 25-seat pickup 'a realistic goal,'" by Tarini Parti:
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http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=b4216d0542c7e8615b295a047f403ea649b6ca1ef81ca64bae839e4406864f43 ... "Health care rulings turn up heat on Walker," by Kyle Cheney:
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TODAY ON POLITICO - "Latest front in Clinton Wars: Virginia Suburbs," by Alex Isenstadt (reporting from McLean, Va.): "[VA-10 nominee Barbara] Comstock's bid against Democratic Fairfax County Supervisor John Foust has reopened the old wounds of Travelgate, Filegate, Monicagate and more. But the stakes go way beyond settling old scores. Clinton allies worry that if Comstock wins and Hillary Clinton returns to the White House as president, she'll reprise her role as Clinton investigator-in-chief. 'If she wins she will no doubt practice the same politics of personal destruction she and her ilk practiced in the Clinton days,' said Paul Begala, a former political adviser to Bill Clinton who has
assumed the role of Comstock attack dog. The Republican, he said, has a "really almost sick, sort of stalker-like obsession with President Clinton.'"
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- "Obama locks out the press - again," by POLITICO's Edward-Isaac Dovere (reporting from San Francisco) and Josh Gerstein, with Byron Tau: "Obama has attended three super PAC events in the past week: one in New York last Thursday and the two on the West Coast. How many people Obama met with was a secret. How much they paid to get in was a secret. Finding out who the people were? Forget it. Even a general account of what the president said to them? Not from this White House. ...

"Wednesday afternoon at a DCCC fundraiser in Los Altos Hills, near Silicon Valley, reporters were invited in to a backyard that included its own tennis court, pool and olive grove to hear Obama deliver almost entirely canned remarks about his record and the midterms. Only as they were being rushed out did the president start to take questions - promising he'd alternate 'girl-boy, girl-boy' once the 'fourth estate' was gone. Eleni Tsakopoulos Kounalakis, Obama's recently returned ambassador to Hungary, kicked things off by asking him about the Russian reset and the situation in Ukraine. The president's staff had reporters out of the way before he began to answer."
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POLITICO SPEED READ: "Begich, Murkowski are no BFFs," by Manu Raju:
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http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=5d5bf130bc7db916fcd330d220dc36d2d0ad4ff6ab481376448d29b4188c1d59 ... "Unions put teachers on the streets - for votes," by Stephanie Simon:
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ACROSS THE MAP - Quick takes from races across the country:

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AK-Sen: Republican Dan Sullivan is getting a boost from the Alaska's Energy/America's Values super PAC, which launched an ad that compares him to the late GOP Sen. Ted Stevens.
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CA-10, CA-21: At a northern California DCCC fundraiser Wednesday, President Obama recognized Democrats Michael Eggman and Amanda Renteria, whom he called "two outstanding candidates."
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KS-04: GOP Rep. Mike Pompeo is up by seven points over Todd Tiahrt, 46 percent to 39 percent, according to a KSN-TV poll by SurveyUSA.
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AZ-Gov: Republican Doug Ducey edged primary rival Christine Jones, 23 percent to 21 percent, in a Harper Polling survey for Veterans for a Strong America, which has been critical of Jones.
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HI-Gov: Democratic Gov. Neil Abercrombie's campaign said it was the Obama camp's idea to describe the governor as like "ohana," or family, in the 60-second radio ad the president cut for the governor.
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CODA - QUOTE OF THE DAY: "But she described Alexander these days as 'kind of like an old sweater. He was really comfortable and sharp looking at one point, but now it just takes up room in your drawer.'" - The Chattanooga Times Free Press on Laura Ingraham's campaign stop for Joe Carr.
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