• Libertarian U.S. Senate candidate Sean Haugh gets an unexpected boost from the American Future Fund, a Koch-brothers group, with a series of ads highlighting Haugh’s support of marijuana legalization.

• It’s the time of the season for high-profile surrogates to make a late pitch for candidates. In the Senate race, this weekend two former (and future?) Republican presidential candidates — Texas Gov. Rick Perry and 2012 nominee Mitt Romney — will make stops on behalf of Thom Tillis. And as mentioned here earlier, on Saturday former Secretary of State and likely 2016 Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton will stump for Sen. Kay Hagan.

• While at least one Democratic Senate challenger in another states has refused to say if she voted for President Obama in 2012, Hagan has a hard time in an interview with MSNBC defending Obama’s leadership.

• 99% Kay? The Tillis campaign and the outside groups supporting his candidacy may choose to update their campaign ads. While the anti-Hagan forces have pointed out repeatedly that the incumbent Democratic senator “voted with President Obama” either 95 percent or 96 percent of the time (depending on the group sponsoring the ads), a fresh analysis from the News & Observer finds, in 2014, Hagan on the opposite side of the president only one time in the 119 votes in which the president took a public position.

• Washington Examiner columnist David Drucker weighs in on the Hagan stimulus controversy, noting that when Sen. Hagan’s brother-in-law John Hagan applied for the $250,644 grant, he didn’t think it would cause any outside concern.

• 6th Congressional District candidates Democrat Laura Fjeld and Republican Mark Walker met Thursday in a debate. WXII-12 of Winston-Salem provides a wrap-up.