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I think the most egregious excuse I’ve seen for people modding astarion to look like temu brand j*mes ch*rles is some shit like “well maybe we don’t want to be romancing someone who looks 40 years old” THEN DONT ROMANCE THE (two hundred and) 40 YEAR OLD???????? YOU FUCKING IDIOT??????? HELLO??????
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Video Game Survey Send numbers in my ask and reblog! 1. Favorite video game? Epic Mickey 2
2. Favorite video game series? Mario bros
3. Favorite video game hero? Oswald
4. Favorite video game villain? Bowser 
5. Favorite video game soundtrack? Kingdom hearts 
6. Favorite video game boss? Hmm idk
7. Least favorite video game boss? Idk
8. Favorite video game to play alone? Mario galaxy 
9. Favorite video game to play with friends? Mario party 8 
10. Favorite upcoming video game? Something on the switch
11. Any games you are currently crazy for? Not too much survey questions 11Q gaming 16 notes Food Survey 1.     How do you feel about golden oreos? They're aight 2.     What is your favorite dessert topping? 3.     What is your favorite flavor/brand of bubble gum? Orbit bubble mint lol 4.     Favorite cheese? Mozzarella 5.     Favorite Lunch Meat? Turkey 6.     Favorite ice cream flavor? Cookie dough 7.     Best looking food? Uhh nachos 8.     Best food to put cheese on? ^^^ 9.     Best sexual food? Strawberries 10.   Best tasting drink in the summer? Pina colada 11.   Best tasting drink in winter? Starbucks coffee 12.   Best food for a night out with friends? Sushi 13.   Best foods to eat with a roll? Thanksgiving food 14.   Messiest food, in your opinion? Spaghetti 15.   Easist food to prepare? Lean cuisine lol 16.   Cheapest food you ever ate? Probably McDonald's 17.   Most expensive food you ever ate? Hmm a meal at the blue bayou? 18.   Stinkiest food you ever ate? Anything with garlic 19.   Favorite dipping sauce? Ranch 20.   Best pizza topping? Cheese 21.   Favorite potato chip flavor? Lime 22.   Most toxic substance you ever ate? Apples with caramel dipping 23.   Most calories you ate in one meal? Shit who knows 24.   Favorite soda? Sprite 25.   Favorite flavor of juice? Apple 26.   Favorite Vegetable? Green beans 27.   Favorite fruit? Strawberries and grapes 28.   Worst canned food? Spam 29.   Best side dish? Mashed potatoes 30.   Worst fast food restuarant? McDonald's 31.   Best restaurant? Tokyo wako 32.   Best smelling food? Teppanyaki 33.   Favorite appetizer? Spinach and artichoke dip 34.   Favorite cookie flavor? Chocolate chip 35.   Favorite cake flavor? Vanilla 36.   Favorite pie flavor? Banana cream 37.   Chocolate or rainbow sprinkles? Rainbow 38.   Ketchup or Mustard? Ketchup 39.   Best food to have on a date? Sushi 40.   Most share-able food? Pizza Name Your Favorite… 1. Place: Glen Ivy 2. Person: Chloe 3. Color: purple 4. Food: sushi 5. Smell: chocolate 6. Book: where things come back 7. Movie: the proposal 8. Music artist: Lana del Rey 9. Genre of music: alternative or hip hop 10. Genre of literature: fiction 11. Magazine: teen vogue 12. Texture: idk 13. Time of day: lunch time hahah 14. Day of the week: Saturday 15. Tumblr: quietlyrebelling 16. Thing to do when bored: watch tv 17. Celebrity: Lana del Rey 18. Class in school: English 19. Website other than Tumblr: twitter 20. Drink: smoothies 21. Precious stone: diamond 22. Animal: elephant or shamu whale 23. Flower: roses 24. Time in history: now bitches 25. Font: give me some classic times new roman 26. Video game: epic Mickey 2 27. TV show: Greys anatomy 28. Play: phantom of the opera 29. Sound: the whoosh after you make a goal 30. Fruit: strawberries and grapes 31. Vegetable: corn or edamame 32. Store/shop: American eagle/Pacsun 33. Article of clothing you own: I hate my clothes. Maybe my swim suits 34. Fashion/style: I have none 35. Pattern: idk 36. Workout: swimming 37. Quote: suck it 38. Historical figure: hmmm 39. Boy’s name: Jonah 40. Girl’s name: Kendall 41. Potato chip flavor: hot Cheetos 42. Meal of the day: lunch 43. Ice cream flavor: cookie dough 44. Soda: sprite 45. Popcorn flavor: cheddar cheese 46. Season: summer 47. Month of the year: July 48. Word: Mahomony 49. Disney princess: Cinderella 50. Insult: idk 51. Joke:idk 52. Cussword: fuck 53. Letter: B 54. YouTube channel: I'm not sure 55. Eye color: blue 56. Memory: they're mostly polo related 57. Dessert: ice cream 58. Candy: kit Kat 59. Restaurant: Tokyo wako 60. Lifehack: idk 61. Language: English 62. Thing to learn about: I have no idea 63. Thing about yourself: the amount I care about others. If you could… 1. Travel anywhere, where would it be?: somewhere tropical 2. Meet anyone, who would it be?: Lana del Rey 3. Bring anyone dead back to life, who would it be?: my grandma's mom 4. Be anyone for a day, who would it be?: Kim kardashian 5. Get anything for free for the rest of your life what would it be?: sushi or clothes 6. Change one thing about your life what would it be?: the way I've treated my friends 7. Have any superpower what would it be?: to teleport 8. Be any animal for a day which would you be?: shamu 9. Date anyone who would it be?: already happy 10. Change one thing about the world what would it be?: the hatred 11. Live in any fictional universe which would you choose?: epic Mickey's world 12. Eliminate one of your human needs which would you get rid of?: The need to pee 13. Change one thing about your physical appearance what would it be?: my weight 14. Change one of your personality traits which would you choose?: my anxiety 15. Be talented at anything instantly what would you choose?: be able to dance 16. Forget one event in your life which would you choose?: there's a few 17. Erase an event from history (make it so it never happened) which would you choose?: the holocaust 18. Have any hair/eye/skin color, which would you choose?: eye color 19. Be any weight/body type, which would you choose?: thin but toned 20. Live in any country/city, where would you choose?: im not sure 21. Change one law in your country, which would you change?: not sure 22. Be any height, which would you choose?: im okay at what I am 23. Have any job in the world, which would you choose?: not sure 24. Have anything appear in your pocket right now, what would it be?: Mula 25. Have anyone beside you right now, who would it be?: Lana del Rey what applies to you. I have driven a manual/stick shift car. YES
I have gotten so drunk I passed out. NO
I have smoked more than ten cigarettes in a day. NO
I have worn a bikini/speedos on the beach. NO
I have kissed someone I shouldn’t have. YES
I have had a conversation with a celebrity. NO
I have done drugs. YES
I have been to Paris.NO 
I have been to LA.YES
I have been to New York.NO
I have been to London.NO
I have been to Rome.NO
I have been to Madrid.NO
I have been to Tokyo. NO I have friends who I am attracted to. YES
I have friends who are attracted to me. YES
I have friends who do hard drugs. YES
I have friends who have been to jail.
 NO I have friends who are old enough to be my parents. NO
I have friends who are married. NO
I have friends who have children of their own. NO
I have friends who work in finance/business. NO
I have friends who are chefs/bakers/butchers etc. NO
I have friends who are actors/musicicans/famous.NO 
I have friends who are artists.NO
I have friends who live more than 500 miles away. YES
I have friends who have seen me naked. YES
I have friends who have never seen me without makeup. NO Hello! 1. Are you a very open or private person? Private unless I'm comfortable with you 2. What is your favourite Christmas movie? Idk 3. When did you stop believing in Santa? Probably around 9 years old 4. What do you get complimented on the most? My hair and skin tone 5. How are you feeling right now? Pretty sad actually 6. If money was no object, where would you move to? Maybe somewhere near the ocean 7. Who was the last person to make you cry? My friend 8. Did you make any resolutions for this year? What were they? No 9. Is there a song which can bring you to tears instantly? Yes. 10. Who was the last person you talked about sex with? Probably chloe 11. How did you bring in the New Year? At my cousins house 12. Have you ever online dated? No 13. Post a screen shot of your Twitter “Interactions” page. Nah 14. Click on the messages tab on Facebook, post a screen shot (erase surnames for safety). Nah fam 15. Post a screenshot of your tumblr activity page. No 16. Do you believe in soul mates? Idk maybe 17. Do you play video games? Yes 18. What age do people usually mistake you for? Usually high schooler 19. What or whom do you miss right now? My friends 20. What perfume do you wear? I haven't worn any in forever
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Democratic Party brand not rebounding, despite GOP woes
With Kevin Robillard, Zach Montellaro and Daniel Strauss
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)
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BRAND PROBLEMS — “Democratic brand still suffering despite GOP woes,” by Campaign Pro’s Elena Schneider: “Democrats, fuming with anger at President Donald Trump and the GOP, boil down the current political fight as one of good versus bad. There’s just one problem: Many voters see it as bad versus worse. Approval of the Republican Party is at historic lows, with 62 percent of Americans expressing a negative opinion of the GOP in a September CNN poll. But voters’ views of the Democratic Party are not rising as Republicans sink, and in some polling, the Democrats have continued to slip, threatening their opportunity to make big gains in the next election. An October poll from Women’s Voices Women Vote Action Fund, a progressive nonprofit, showed opinions about the Democratic brand falling by double digits over several months among a handful of key groups, including Hispanics (from 47 percent positive and 34 percent negative to 39 percent positive and 40 percent negative), unmarried women (52-30 to 44-37) and white millennials (34-46 to 29-51). … Democratic strategists say the party’s poor standing with voters is a source of concern heading into a 2018 election that otherwise looks like it is setting up nicely for the party.” Full story.
DEPARTURE LOUNGE — “Lamar Smith won’t seek reelection to House,” by POLITICO’s Darius Dixon: “Rep. Lamar Smith, the controversial chairman of the House Science Committee, announced Thursday that he will leave Congress when his term ends in 2018. The 16-term Texas Republican is one of the longest-serving members of the state’s congressional delegation, and has often tussled with academics, scientific organizations and government regulators since become Science chairman in 2013. In a letter to constituents, Smith said there were several reasons he is choosing not to seek reelection next year, including that he will complete his term as chairman of the House Science Committee.” Full story.
— Potential replacements for TX-05, TX-21: GOP operatives named former Irving Mayor Beth Van Duyne as a potential candidate to replace Hensarling, and state Sen. Donna Campbell as a potential candidate to replace Smith.
ON THE AIR — NEW THIS MORNING — Freedom Partners backs Laxalt in Nevada with $1 million buy: The Koch Bros.-backed super PAC Freedom Partners Action Fund is up with a $1 million ad buy boosting GOP Attorney General Adam Laxalt in the Nevada governor’s race. “There is someone different working for us every day. An Iraq war veteran,” the narrator says in the ad. “He’s protecting seniors against fraud. Fighting for a good education for every child. And standing up against higher taxes. He’s Adam Laxalt.” Watch the ad here.
— North Dakota GOP attacks Heitkamp with softball ad: During the World Series, the North Dakota GOP aired a softball-themed ad attacking Democratic Sen. Heidi Heitkamp for supporting Obamacare and siding with Planned Parenthood. The ad is a parody of a famous Heitkamp spot from her 2012 election, featuring her in a batting cage. Watch the ad here.
FIRST IN SCORE — ADLF prepares FEC complaint against America First Action: The liberal-leaning group American Democracy Legal Fund is preparing to file an FEC complaint against the Trump-backing super PAC America First Action because the group reportedly met with Trump advisers at the White House to brief them, even though Trump is already an official candidate for president in 2020. “Federal campaign law exists to prevent candidates, like Donald Trump, from abusing the power of their office by offering favors to wealthy donors in exchange for millions of dollars to supportive super-PACs,” said ADLF President Brad Woodhouse. “But this is the Trump Administration, and Donald Trump hasn’t found a law on the books intended to prevent him from selling out the American people that he hasn’t tried to bend, twist and straight up break for his own gain.”
FIRST IN SCORE — NRCC to target Democrats on CHIP vote: The NRCC will go after Democratic incumbents if they vote against the CHIP program today, a vote that’s expected to fall along partisan lines due to gridlock over how to pay for the legislation. The digital ads will say that incumbents “voted to kill the Children’s Health Insurance Program.” The ad continues: “Washington politicians first voted to jack up our premiums, now they’re protecting subsidies for the 1 percent at our kid’s expense.”
CIVIL WAR WATCH — DFA pulls support for Northam: The progressive group Democracy for America said it was pulling “direct aid” from Northam after he said yesterday he would sign legislation barring sanctuary cities. “We refuse to be silent any longer and even remotely complicit in the disastrous, racist, and voter-turnout-depressing campaign Ralph Northam appears intent on running,” DFA executive director Charles Chamberlain said.
Days until the 2017 election: 4.
Days until the 2018 election: 368.
Thanks for joining us! You can email tips to the Campaign Pro team at [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] and [email protected]
You can also follow us on Twitter: @politicoscott, @ec_schneider, @politicokevin, @danielstrauss4 and @maggieseverns.
TROUBLE AT HOME — “DNC fires its top fundraiser,” by POLITICO’s Gabriel Debenedetti: “The DNC dismissed its top fundraiser today after just five months on the job, two Democrats familiar with the move told POLITICO. Emily Mellencamp Smith, the party’s finance director, was let go in a shakeup of the party’s senior leadership designed to energize the party’s fundraising.
— One reaction: “I’ve seen a lot of bosses scapegoat staff to cover their own failures but Tom Pérez takes the cake for this one. Really really despicable.” Paul Tencher, chief-of-staff to Massachusetts Sen. Ed Markey, tweeted.
ICYMI — “Inside Hillary Clinton’s Secret Takeover of the DNC,” by Donna Brazile. Full story.
OPPO FILES — “Report links Chrissy Houlahan’s former company to Chinese ‘sweatshops,’” by City and State PA’s Ryan Briggs: “A 13-year-old report linking US corporations to sweatshop-like conditions in Chinese shoe factories has come back to haunt Democratic Congressional candidate Chrissy Houlahan, who is running against Republican U.S. Rep. Ryan Costello in Pennsylvania’s 6th District. Houlahan had worked for years as an executive at AND1, an athletic apparel company, serving as chief operating officer until the company’s sale in 2005. Findings from a 2004 report by the pro-union Institute for Global Labour and Human Rights outlined financial ties between the sneaker company and factories owned by the Taiwan-based Pou Chen Group that allegedly engaged in ‘abusive working conditions.’” Full story.
LAST CALL FOR VIRGINIA POLLS — A new Suffolk University poll has Democrat Ralph Northam leading Republican Ed Gillespie 47 percent to 43 percent, with Libertarian Clifford Hyra picking up 2 percent. The live caller poll surveyed 500 likely voters between Oct. 30 and Nov. 1 and has a margin or error of 4.4 percentage points.
FINAL ADS — Northam links Gillespie to Trump in new ad: Democratic Lt. Gov. Ralph Northam is out with a new ad in the Virginia governor’s race linking Republican Ed Gillespie to President Donald Trump, who is deeply unpopular in the state. The ad suggests Gillespie supports Trump on education, environmental and health care issues. Full story.
— Gillespie campaign airs ad on backlash to LVF spot: “Virginia Republican gubernatorial candidate Ed Gillespie is up with a new, 30-second television ad focused on the backlash to a Latino Victory Fund spot that aired earlier this week.” Full story.
— “After an intentionally slow start, Murphy far outspending Guadagno on TV ads,” by POLITICO’s New Jersey Katherine Landergan: “Democratic New Jersey gubernatorial nominee Phil Murphy is far outspending Republican Kim Guadagno in advertising dollars during the final weeks of the campaign, after allowing her to dominate the airwaves earlier in the race. Murphy’s campaign spent less than $40,000 on advertising in September, when the general election campaign began in earnest, according to Advertising Analytics, a group that tracks ad buys. Guadagno’s team spent $856,709 — more than 20 times that amount. Then things changed dramatically in October. Though Guadagno, the state’s lieutenant governor, accelerated her spending to $1.5 million, Murphy spent more than 2 1/2 times that, or about $3.85 million.” Full story.
ON THE WEB — “Democratic PAC Priorities USA budgeting $50 million for digital ads in 2018,” by The Washington Post’s Ed O’Keefe: “A Democratic super PAC is planning to spend at least $50 million over the next year on digital advertising to elect Democrats across the country in what is believed to be the largest sum ever set aside for such outreach on the political left.” Full story.
INTERESTING EXPERIMENT — “Fox News is trying to reinvent the exit poll. The survey strategy involves people who don’t vote,” by the Post’s Callum Borchers: “[Arnon Mishkin, who heads the Fox News decision desk] said he and a team of seven others have developed a new projection system that includes doing something counterintuitive. ‘We’re going to be talking to people who tell us they’re not going to vote,’ Mishkin said. ‘We’re going to say, ‘Well, okay, why aren’t you voting? And if you were going to vote, who would you have voted for?’’ Here’s the logic: ‘If you think about American politics since 2004, election results are less about who convinced whom and more about who motivated their base better. Who got their people to the polls?’” Full story.
ABOUT THAT MOORE FUNDRAISER — A day after Sen. Roger Wicker attended a fundraiser for former Alabama Supreme Court Judge Roy Moore (also attended by former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon, among others) the Mississippi senator released a statement explaining his attendance: “I attended a fundraiser in Washington, DC, for Judge Roy Moore. He is our Republican nominee for U.S. Senate in Alabama, and I’m glad to support him, contribute to his campaign, and help to see that he is elected. I did the same countless times last cycle as NRSC Chairman. I’ve worked too hard to preserve our Republican majority in the Senate to let Democrats try to divide and defeat us. Republicans have better candidates, better policy ideas, and a better vision for our country’s future. If we’re united we’ll win this race, and both Alabama and the country will be better off for it.”
AWK — Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity lists dead member: A Morning Score reader flagged to us that the White House’s election integrity commission, tasked with studying voter fraud, lists former Arkansas state Rep. David Dunn as a commission member. Only problem? Dunn, 52, died last month.
OUTSIDE HELP — Top GOP strategists form super PAC backing Schuette in Michigan: “A group of top Republican strategists has formed a new super PAC to support Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette’s gubernatorial bid. Phil Cox, a former executive director of the Republican Governors Association, will chair the super PAC, which is called Better Jobs Stronger Families. Stu Sandler, a former general consultant for the Michigan Republican Party, will be executive director. Veteran Republican lawyer Charlie Spies will serve as legal counsel, and political strategist Russ Schriefer, who served as a top adviser to Mitt Romney in 2012, will be media consultant.” Full story.
STAFFING UP — Senate Majority PAC rolls out senior staff: Senate Majority PAC announced its senior staff for 2018, according to a statement from the group. Diana Astiz, who served as Katie McGinty’s research director in 2016, will reprise the roll for the group. Angelique Cannon Harris, who served as the deputy national finance director for the mid-Atlantic region for Hillary Clinton, will be Senate Majority PAC’s national finance director. Alexandra Shapiro will be the deputy national finance director. Chris Hayden will be the communications director. Alex Katz, who worked on Chuck Schumer’s Senate staff, will be a senior adviser. Pamela Stamoulis will be the group’s first digital director.
CODA — QUOTE OF THE DAY: “I absolutely will use this media circus to sell/promote whatever I damn well please.” — Kid Rock told Buzzfeed in a statement that he “won’t say how much money he made from the ‘Kid Rock For Senate’ stunt or where it went.”
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everettwilkinson · 6 years
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Democratic Party brand not rebounding, despite GOP woes
With Kevin Robillard, Zach Montellaro and Daniel Strauss
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)
Story Continued Below
BRAND PROBLEMS — “Democratic brand still suffering despite GOP woes,” by Campaign Pro’s Elena Schneider: “Democrats, fuming with anger at President Donald Trump and the GOP, boil down the current political fight as one of good versus bad. There’s just one problem: Many voters see it as bad versus worse. Approval of the Republican Party is at historic lows, with 62 percent of Americans expressing a negative opinion of the GOP in a September CNN poll. But voters’ views of the Democratic Party are not rising as Republicans sink, and in some polling, the Democrats have continued to slip, threatening their opportunity to make big gains in the next election. An October poll from Women’s Voices Women Vote Action Fund, a progressive nonprofit, showed opinions about the Democratic brand falling by double digits over several months among a handful of key groups, including Hispanics (from 47 percent positive and 34 percent negative to 39 percent positive and 40 percent negative), unmarried women (52-30 to 44-37) and white millennials (34-46 to 29-51). … Democratic strategists say the party’s poor standing with voters is a source of concern heading into a 2018 election that otherwise looks like it is setting up nicely for the party.” Full story.
DEPARTURE LOUNGE — “Lamar Smith won’t seek reelection to House,” by POLITICO’s Darius Dixon: “Rep. Lamar Smith, the controversial chairman of the House Science Committee, announced Thursday that he will leave Congress when his term ends in 2018. The 16-term Texas Republican is one of the longest-serving members of the state’s congressional delegation, and has often tussled with academics, scientific organizations and government regulators since become Science chairman in 2013. In a letter to constituents, Smith said there were several reasons he is choosing not to seek reelection next year, including that he will complete his term as chairman of the House Science Committee.” Full story.
— Potential replacements for TX-05, TX-21: GOP operatives named former Irving Mayor Beth Van Duyne as a potential candidate to replace Hensarling, and state Sen. Donna Campbell as a potential candidate to replace Smith.
ON THE AIR — NEW THIS MORNING — Freedom Partners backs Laxalt in Nevada with $1 million buy: The Koch Bros.-backed super PAC Freedom Partners Action Fund is up with a $1 million ad buy boosting GOP Attorney General Adam Laxalt in the Nevada governor’s race. “There is someone different working for us every day. An Iraq war veteran,” the narrator says in the ad. “He’s protecting seniors against fraud. Fighting for a good education for every child. And standing up against higher taxes. He’s Adam Laxalt.” Watch the ad here.
— North Dakota GOP attacks Heitkamp with softball ad: During the World Series, the North Dakota GOP aired a softball-themed ad attacking Democratic Sen. Heidi Heitkamp for supporting Obamacare and siding with Planned Parenthood. The ad is a parody of a famous Heitkamp spot from her 2012 election, featuring her in a batting cage. Watch the ad here.
FIRST IN SCORE — ADLF prepares FEC complaint against America First Action: The liberal-leaning group American Democracy Legal Fund is preparing to file an FEC complaint against the Trump-backing super PAC America First Action because the group reportedly met with Trump advisers at the White House to brief them, even though Trump is already an official candidate for president in 2020. “Federal campaign law exists to prevent candidates, like Donald Trump, from abusing the power of their office by offering favors to wealthy donors in exchange for millions of dollars to supportive super-PACs,” said ADLF President Brad Woodhouse. “But this is the Trump Administration, and Donald Trump hasn’t found a law on the books intended to prevent him from selling out the American people that he hasn’t tried to bend, twist and straight up break for his own gain.”
FIRST IN SCORE — NRCC to target Democrats on CHIP vote: The NRCC will go after Democratic incumbents if they vote against the CHIP program today, a vote that’s expected to fall along partisan lines due to gridlock over how to pay for the legislation. The digital ads will say that incumbents “voted to kill the Children’s Health Insurance Program.” The ad continues: “Washington politicians first voted to jack up our premiums, now they’re protecting subsidies for the 1 percent at our kid’s expense.”
CIVIL WAR WATCH — DFA pulls support for Northam: The progressive group Democracy for America said it was pulling “direct aid” from Northam after he said yesterday he would sign legislation barring sanctuary cities. “We refuse to be silent any longer and even remotely complicit in the disastrous, racist, and voter-turnout-depressing campaign Ralph Northam appears intent on running,” DFA executive director Charles Chamberlain said.
Days until the 2017 election: 4.
Days until the 2018 election: 368.
Thanks for joining us! You can email tips to the Campaign Pro team at [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] and [email protected]
You can also follow us on Twitter: @politicoscott, @ec_schneider, @politicokevin, @danielstrauss4 and @maggieseverns.
TROUBLE AT HOME — “DNC fires its top fundraiser,” by POLITICO’s Gabriel Debenedetti: “The DNC dismissed its top fundraiser today after just five months on the job, two Democrats familiar with the move told POLITICO. Emily Mellencamp Smith, the party’s finance director, was let go in a shakeup of the party’s senior leadership designed to energize the party’s fundraising.
— One reaction: “I’ve seen a lot of bosses scapegoat staff to cover their own failures but Tom Pérez takes the cake for this one. Really really despicable.” Paul Tencher, chief-of-staff to Massachusetts Sen. Ed Markey, tweeted.
ICYMI — “Inside Hillary Clinton’s Secret Takeover of the DNC,” by Donna Brazile. Full story.
OPPO FILES — “Report links Chrissy Houlahan’s former company to Chinese ‘sweatshops,’” by City and State PA’s Ryan Briggs: “A 13-year-old report linking US corporations to sweatshop-like conditions in Chinese shoe factories has come back to haunt Democratic Congressional candidate Chrissy Houlahan, who is running against Republican U.S. Rep. Ryan Costello in Pennsylvania’s 6th District. Houlahan had worked for years as an executive at AND1, an athletic apparel company, serving as chief operating officer until the company’s sale in 2005. Findings from a 2004 report by the pro-union Institute for Global Labour and Human Rights outlined financial ties between the sneaker company and factories owned by the Taiwan-based Pou Chen Group that allegedly engaged in ‘abusive working conditions.’” Full story.
LAST CALL FOR VIRGINIA POLLS — A new Suffolk University poll has Democrat Ralph Northam leading Republican Ed Gillespie 47 percent to 43 percent, with Libertarian Clifford Hyra picking up 2 percent. The live caller poll surveyed 500 likely voters between Oct. 30 and Nov. 1 and has a margin or error of 4.4 percentage points.
FINAL ADS — Northam links Gillespie to Trump in new ad: Democratic Lt. Gov. Ralph Northam is out with a new ad in the Virginia governor’s race linking Republican Ed Gillespie to President Donald Trump, who is deeply unpopular in the state. The ad suggests Gillespie supports Trump on education, environmental and health care issues. Full story.
— Gillespie campaign airs ad on backlash to LVF spot: “Virginia Republican gubernatorial candidate Ed Gillespie is up with a new, 30-second television ad focused on the backlash to a Latino Victory Fund spot that aired earlier this week.” Full story.
— “After an intentionally slow start, Murphy far outspending Guadagno on TV ads,” by POLITICO’s New Jersey Katherine Landergan: “Democratic New Jersey gubernatorial nominee Phil Murphy is far outspending Republican Kim Guadagno in advertising dollars during the final weeks of the campaign, after allowing her to dominate the airwaves earlier in the race. Murphy’s campaign spent less than $40,000 on advertising in September, when the general election campaign began in earnest, according to Advertising Analytics, a group that tracks ad buys. Guadagno’s team spent $856,709 — more than 20 times that amount. Then things changed dramatically in October. Though Guadagno, the state’s lieutenant governor, accelerated her spending to $1.5 million, Murphy spent more than 2 1/2 times that, or about $3.85 million.” Full story.
ON THE WEB — “Democratic PAC Priorities USA budgeting $50 million for digital ads in 2018,” by The Washington Post’s Ed O’Keefe: “A Democratic super PAC is planning to spend at least $50 million over the next year on digital advertising to elect Democrats across the country in what is believed to be the largest sum ever set aside for such outreach on the political left.” Full story.
INTERESTING EXPERIMENT — “Fox News is trying to reinvent the exit poll. The survey strategy involves people who don’t vote,” by the Post’s Callum Borchers: “[Arnon Mishkin, who heads the Fox News decision desk] said he and a team of seven others have developed a new projection system that includes doing something counterintuitive. ‘We’re going to be talking to people who tell us they’re not going to vote,’ Mishkin said. ‘We’re going to say, ‘Well, okay, why aren’t you voting? And if you were going to vote, who would you have voted for?’’ Here’s the logic: ‘If you think about American politics since 2004, election results are less about who convinced whom and more about who motivated their base better. Who got their people to the polls?’” Full story.
ABOUT THAT MOORE FUNDRAISER — A day after Sen. Roger Wicker attended a fundraiser for former Alabama Supreme Court Judge Roy Moore (also attended by former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon, among others) the Mississippi senator released a statement explaining his attendance: “I attended a fundraiser in Washington, DC, for Judge Roy Moore. He is our Republican nominee for U.S. Senate in Alabama, and I’m glad to support him, contribute to his campaign, and help to see that he is elected. I did the same countless times last cycle as NRSC Chairman. I’ve worked too hard to preserve our Republican majority in the Senate to let Democrats try to divide and defeat us. Republicans have better candidates, better policy ideas, and a better vision for our country’s future. If we’re united we’ll win this race, and both Alabama and the country will be better off for it.”
AWK — Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity lists dead member: A Morning Score reader flagged to us that the White House’s election integrity commission, tasked with studying voter fraud, lists former Arkansas state Rep. David Dunn as a commission member. Only problem? Dunn, 52, died last month.
OUTSIDE HELP — Top GOP strategists form super PAC backing Schuette in Michigan: “A group of top Republican strategists has formed a new super PAC to support Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette’s gubernatorial bid. Phil Cox, a former executive director of the Republican Governors Association, will chair the super PAC, which is called Better Jobs Stronger Families. Stu Sandler, a former general consultant for the Michigan Republican Party, will be executive director. Veteran Republican lawyer Charlie Spies will serve as legal counsel, and political strategist Russ Schriefer, who served as a top adviser to Mitt Romney in 2012, will be media consultant.” Full story.
STAFFING UP — Senate Majority PAC rolls out senior staff: Senate Majority PAC announced its senior staff for 2018, according to a statement from the group. Diana Astiz, who served as Katie McGinty’s research director in 2016, will reprise the roll for the group. Angelique Cannon Harris, who served as the deputy national finance director for the mid-Atlantic region for Hillary Clinton, will be Senate Majority PAC’s national finance director. Alexandra Shapiro will be the deputy national finance director. Chris Hayden will be the communications director. Alex Katz, who worked on Chuck Schumer’s Senate staff, will be a senior adviser. Pamela Stamoulis will be the group’s first digital director.
CODA — QUOTE OF THE DAY: “I absolutely will use this media circus to sell/promote whatever I damn well please.” — Kid Rock told Buzzfeed in a statement that he “won’t say how much money he made from the ‘Kid Rock For Senate’ stunt or where it went.”
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