Karl Rove's twin Super PACs Crossroads GPS and American Crossroads have announced a $70 million advertising blitz that’s expected to begin next week.
A significant portion of the mula is expected to go toward Republican Senate campaigns. Mitch McConnell recently said that the Senate chamber could go either way; there’s about a 50-50 chance that Republicans will gain control. Steven Law, the President and CEO of American Crossroads, said his organization was trying its best to "tip the scale for the GOP."
Together, American Crossroads and Crossroads GPS will spend $70 million on Senate campaigns. Out of context, that seems like a staggering figure (it is, actually). But compare that to the groups' $300 million budget, most of which will be spent on the presidential campaign.
Here are the organizations advertising budgets on a state-by-state basis: Crossroads GPS has reserved $2.3 million in Missouri, $1.8 million in Nevada, $706,000 in North Dakota, $6.7 million in Ohio and $5.7 million in Virginia, while American Crossroads has earmarked $6.2 million for Florida.
There is plenty to be said about the way in which GOP affiliated super PACs are outspending Obama by, like, a lot. But watching the ads is way more fun that reading about them. The following three ads attack Democratic Senate candidates for supporting some of the key issues on the President’s first term agenda: the stimulus and health care reform.
**Warning!!** Some of these ads — as in all of them — mash up information and quotations in an infuriating way.
And then there are the attacks directed entirely at Obama. Headwinds, ATMs, Bad Luck - These are Obama's excuses. What Obama needs to do is accept the new majority agenda. Or maybe not:
This one is particularly funny, considering the whole Paycheck Fairness thing that Republicans didn’t like. What’s even funnier is that Republicans think this could become a "key ad" for them, according to Politico’s Mike Allen.
This is my favorite ad, by far. By attempting to “Reset” relations with Russia, Crossroads GPS hopes to highlight the way in which Obama will lose the Cold War II, or something. As Romney says, Russia is our number one geopolitical threat. That’s funny because it's, um, false. It's not just kinda wrong, it's fundamentally incorrect:
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