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Brett Neely

The Daily Digest: Michelle Obama to rally DFLers

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In Minnesota

Leaders of the Minnesota DFL Party say first lady Michelle Obama will be in the Twin Cities for a get out the vote campaign rally in support of Sen. Al Franken and Gov. Mark Dayton. (MPR News)

A group that doesn't have to disclose its donors is running online ads against Sen. Al Franken. (MPR News)

Speaking of money in politics, congressional candidates have filed their fundraising reports. (MPR News)

Republican U.S. Senate candidate Mike McFadden says tax incentives for parents with children in day care should be consolidated and made available to parents who choose to care for their kids themselves. (MPR News)

Locked in a tough race, 8th District Congressman Rick Nolan says there's too much money in politics. But he's raising lots of it and has a Democratic super PAC acting on his behalf. (MPR News)

1st District Democratic incumbent Rep. Tim Walz and Republican challenger Jim Hagedorn shared a tense debate Wednesday at South Central College in North Mankato, repeatedly trading blows over the federal health care law, immigration and government's role in people's lives. (Mankato Free Press)

Two seats in Willmar may be key to the GOP's strategy to re-capture the state House. (MPR News)

A look at more of the seats that are central to control of the chamber. (MPR News)

A two-time convicted killer wants a federal judge to order his name be placed on the ballot in Minnesota's 6th Congressional District race. (St. Cloud Times)

A Photoshop-fail for a DFL mailer. (Star Tribune)

National Politics

Another new case of Ebola led President Obama to cancel several campaign-related events and instead focus on how the federal government should fight the infectious disease. (New York Times)

The person in charge of electing Democrats to the U.S. House says he is “frustrated” that his party’s outside groups have not supported House Democrats on television in the final stretch of the midterms. (Roll Call)

The federal budget deficit, after rising to more than a trillion dollars a year at the height of the recent recession, has fallen to pre-recession levels and is now lower than the annual average of the past 40 years. (AP via Pioneer Press)

What does it really mean when a forecaster predicts that Republicans have a 74 percent chance of taking the Senate? (New York Times)