(CNN) – The new super PAC aimed at ensuring electable candidates emerge from Republican primaries isn't designed to further entrench establishment moderates, one of its founders said late Tuesday. Karl Rove, the former top political adviser to President George W. Bush and co-founder of American Crossroads and Crossroads GPS, said his new group wasn't meant [...]
(CNN) – The super PAC started by comedian Stephen Colbert has officially closed its, according to filings posted late Tuesday night on the Federal Election Commission's website. Americans for a Better Tomorrow, Tomorrow Inc.– a super PAC created to mock the 2010 Supreme Court ruling that allowed such entities to form - raked in more [...]
(CNN) – Priorities USA Action, the primary super PAC supporting President Barack Obama, released a new television ad on Tuesday, bringing Mitt Romney's former private equity firm back into the line of fire. In the 30-second spot, "Same Promises," five individuals talk about losing their jobs after Bain Capital bought their employers. – Follow the [...]
(CNN) – American Crossroads, the major conservative super PAC co-founded by Karl Rove, said Tuesday it was spending another $11 million to air a spot critical of President Barack Obama in key battleground states. The ad, which features a woman at her kitchen table directing questions to Obama, will run in Colorado, Florida, Iowa, North [...]
(CNN) – A super PAC supporting Mitt Romney took out a $1.5 million ad buy in Michigan, the group announced Friday. Restore Our Future will run the same ad it launched on Tuesday, "New Normal," which hits President Barack Obama for the "over 8% unemployment" rate, even though the rate dropped last week to 7.8% [...]
(CNN) - Despite a jobs report showing unemployment falling to 7.8% in September, the super PAC supporting Mitt Romney continued to use "over 8% unemployment" in a new ad hammering President Barack Obama Tuesday. Restore Our Future said it was spending $6.3 million to air the spot in Florida, Iowa and Virginia. In the commercial, [...]
(CNN) – The conservative super PAC American Crossroads said Tuesday it was buying $11 million in television time this week to air an ad sharply critical of President Barack Obama’s record on jobs. The group also said they would spend another $1 million on radio ads, and indicated its affiliate organization Crossroads GPS would put [...]
(CNN) - Planned Parenthood Votes, a super PAC, released a new television ad Tuesday in Virginia that hits Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney as out of touch with women. The ad, "Cynthia's Story," features a patient who credits Planned Parenthood with helping her survive a battle with cancer. – Follow the Ticker on Twitter: @PoliticalTicker [...]
(CNN) - Sen. Rob Portman, who is close to GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney and was a member of the congressional so-called "super committee" tasked with devising a deficit reduction plan, said Tuesday that the upcoming sequestration - a penalty and incentive for the two partisan sides to work together - has been ineffective and [...]
Charlotte, North Carolina (CNN) - The independent super PAC supporting President Barack Obama's re-election bid said Tuesday that it raised $10 million last month. The haul is the largest to date for Priorities USA Action, which was formed in the spring of 2011. – Follow the Ticker on Twitter: @PoliticalTicker – Check out the CNN [...]
Tampa, Florida (CNN) - Representatives for Americans for Prosperity, the conservative super PAC behind tens of millions in political advertising, said Tuesday they were sending three buses around the country to rally activists helping the group gather data on persuadable voters. The buses, making their debut in Tampa during the Republican National Convention, are plastered [...]
Tampa, Florida (CNN) - The Democratic super PAC Priorities USA said a new television spot, revealed Tuesday, was part of a new effort to cast Mitt Romney's policy proposals as bad for the middle class. Previously, the group focused on Romney's time at Bain Capital, painting the Republican presidential candidate as a cold-hearted job killer. [...]
(CNN)-The Romney campaign is renewing its attacks over a pro-Obama super PAC video linking the GOP candidate to the death of a cancer patient by expanding the original ad buy to include Iowa on Tuesday, coinciding with the president's visit to the Hawkeye state. The ad the Romney campaign is re-releasing is titled, "America Deserves [...]
(CNN) – Priorities USA Action, a super PAC supportive of President Barack Obama, released a new ad Tuesday, tying Mitt Romney to the death of a former GST Steel worker's wife after the employee lost his job when the plant closed down. Romney's former private equity firm, Bain Capital, acquired GST Steel in 1993, but [...]
(CNN) - Crossroads GPS, the private arm for the Karl Rove-backed super PAC American Crossroads, released a new ad Tuesday blaming President Barack Obama for the still-lagging economy. The ad opens with CBS News anchor Scott Pelley saying in a July newscast, "Good evening. This is the worst economic recovery America has ever had." – [...]
(CNN) – Crossroads GPS, the conservative super PAC co-founded by Karl Rove, announced Tuesday it was spending nearly $10 million to air an attack ad in ten battleground states painting President Barack Obama's economic policies as failures. Jonathan Collegio, a spokesman for the group, said the buy was part of a larger $25 million purchase [...]
(CNN) - Ann Romney, the wife of presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney who suffers from multiple sclerosis, revealed she had a health "scare" leading up to Super Tuesday. "There have been some days, like before Super Tuesday I was quite fatigued, and I knew I couldn't quit. I didn't tell anybody I was tired," [...]
(CNN) – It's the biggest day of Republican primary voting since Super Tuesday back on March 6. But when five states hold contests on Tuesday, the only drama left appears to be the size of the margins of victory for all-but-certain GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney. "This is the last day before the primary in [...]
Washington (CNN) – The super PAC supporting Mitt Romney is using some of Rick Santorum's own words against him in a new ad focusing on the economy that started airing Tuesday in Wisconsin. Restore Our Future went up with a spot highlighting Santorum's words from a March 19 speech in Moline, Illinois when he said, [...]
Washington (CNN) - Mitt Romney's campaign bought its first broadcast ad time in Wisconsin as it escalated its ad presence in the state. It purchased just under $100,000 for commercials which aired this past weekend. It split its commercial time, according to CNN's ad consultant Kantar CMAG, between airing its new positive ad painting Romney's [...]