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Mike Mulcahy

Daily Digest: Election minus one week

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Good morning, just one week to go before Election Day. Here's your Digest:

Minnesota:

Republican Mike McFadden says Sen. Al Franken's ad that blames McFadden for layoffs at a Montana mill is false. (MPR News)

The PoliGraph agrees with McFadden. (MPR News)

Franken got some campaign help from a Mad Man. (Pioneer Press)

Gov. Mark Dayton announced new guidelines for monitoring people coming to Minnesota who may have been exposed to Ebola. (Star Tribune)

Ebola has also become a political issue. (MPR News)

DFL Attorney General Lori Swanson has been keeping a fairly low profile as a number of candidates challenge her this year. (MPR News)

The final pre-election state campaign finance reports are due to be released today. State House Democrats say they raised $1.079 million in the latest period and about$4.8 million for the entire cycle. Perhaps not too surprisingly the most generous area in terms of fundraising for both DFL Gov. Mark Dayton and his Republican challenger Jeff Johnson is Wayzata. (Star Tribune)

Washington:

The federal government is revising its Ebola monitoring guidelines. (New York Times)

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie isn't apologizing for quarantining a health care worker who showed no Ebola symptoms. (New York Times)

Michele Bachmann is working on what to do next. (Washington Post)