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Related: About this forumRomney backers buy $1 million in radio ads
Source: Associated Press
Romney backers buy 1 million in radio ads
1 hour ago Associated Press
The super PAC backing Mitt Romney on Friday announced a $1 million radio ad blitz in nine states attacking President Barack Obama for negativity, signaling the fierce campaign spending is heading in force to drive-time in must-win states.
While both Romney and Obama _ and their allies _ have been shelling out millions on television ads, neither has been aggressive on radio, a relatively cheap and ubiquitous medium that is trickier to track and easier to target. That relative quiet on the dials was set to end with a 60-second ad in Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Virginia.
"You spent a trillion taxpayer dollars on the stimulus. It failed," a female narrator says of Obama in the ads. "The jobless rate went up and has been stuck above 8 percent for 41 straight months. You increased spending so wildly that you've added more debt than the first 41 presidents _ combined."
The ad says Obama has turned the campaign negative against Romney because he cannot run on his time in the White House.
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1 hour ago Associated Press
The super PAC backing Mitt Romney on Friday announced a $1 million radio ad blitz in nine states attacking President Barack Obama for negativity, signaling the fierce campaign spending is heading in force to drive-time in must-win states.
While both Romney and Obama _ and their allies _ have been shelling out millions on television ads, neither has been aggressive on radio, a relatively cheap and ubiquitous medium that is trickier to track and easier to target. That relative quiet on the dials was set to end with a 60-second ad in Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Virginia.
"You spent a trillion taxpayer dollars on the stimulus. It failed," a female narrator says of Obama in the ads. "The jobless rate went up and has been stuck above 8 percent for 41 straight months. You increased spending so wildly that you've added more debt than the first 41 presidents _ combined."
The ad says Obama has turned the campaign negative against Romney because he cannot run on his time in the White House.
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Romney backers buy $1 million in radio ads (Original Post)
Eugene
Jul 2012
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Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)1. Romney backsters waste $1m to defensively whine
Complete with "facts" anyone who's not a blithering idiot can see are false.
So, are they just shoring up their own base?
WI_DEM
(33,497 posts)2. It's only a waste if Obama or his pac don't respond other wise
many people will buy into it, as they already have with the stimulus being a loser when it wasn't, but people believe it was because the GOP has told that lie over and over.
fugop
(1,828 posts)3. Curious...
Does anyone - other than rightwing radio fans - still listen to radio ads? I mean, maybe they do, I don't know. But with all the choices out there, not to mention ipods, it's hard to picture anyone listening to these ads other than the rightwing choir.