In a new television ad now playing in Wisconsin, Crossroads GPS spotlights a couple whose cancer-stricken son Mitt Romney befriended in 1979. The ad, titled “Mitt and David,” hits a personal “he cares” theme that another pro-Romney outside group, Restore Our...
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Crossroads Gets Personal in New Romney Pitch to Wisconsin Voters
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Romney's "mom jeans." Not cool but, evidently, ok.
Romney’s Not Cool And That’s OK
Mitt Romney wears “mom jeans.” He listens to music that running mate Paul Ryan says he’s heard in hotel elevators. And he thought the Twilight series was “fun.” Who’s conjuring this dweeby image of the Republican candidate for president? Fellow...
Read more »Obama-Romney Super-PAC Duel
Mitt Romney will pay for running mate Paul Ryan’s budget, if the super-PAC backing President Barack Obama has anything to say about it. President Barack Obama will pay for his health-care act, if one of the super-PACs backing Romney has...
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Karl Rove and Senator Orrin Hatch from Utah at the Republican National Convention.
Karl Rove at War With Himself
Forget Obama vs. Romney or Democrats vs. Republicans. Here’s the battle to watch as the presidential campaign heads into its final 5 weeks: Karl Rove the ideologue vs. Karl Rove the realist. Both sides of Rove, President George W. Bush’s...
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Senate candidate Rep. Todd Akin, R-Missouri, speaks during a forum at a Republican conference in Kansas City, Mo.
Akin Links McCaskill to Obama in Ad
Updated 3:30 p.m. with the McCaskill campaign Rep. Todd Akin is trying to go back on offense in the Missouri U.S. Senate race after spending weeks apologizing and doing damage control following his controversial comments about rape and abortion. Akin’s...
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Obama: America Better Off Than ’08 — Crossroads: Broken Promises
“Forward.” This has been a catchword of the Obama campaign for some time, it was sounded at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte and now it’s the theme of a minute-long campaign ad that challenges Republican Mitt Romney on both...
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An Obama campaign ad released September 3, 2012
Bloomberg by the Numbers: 605,996
That’s how many presidential election ads have run in the five-month period between April 10, when the general election began in earnest, and Sept. 4, according to Kantar Media’s CMAG. President Barack Obama’s campaign has run ads 267,987 times, or...
Read more »Rove Super-PAC Airing Anti-Obama Ad During Democratic Convention
As President Barack Obama prepares to address the Democratic National Convention tomorrow, a Republican group is looking to blunt any post-convention “bounce” for him. “President Obama says he’ll move us forward. But where has he taken us so far?” asks...
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Delegates at the Democratic National Convention (DNC) in Charlotte.
Emanuel Freed to Fundraise for Super-PACs: $3 Million Already
Rahm Emanuel has always been a fundraising machine, but as a co-chairman of the President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign, he was prevented from raising the kind of big checks that Republican Karl Rove is collecting. So he resigned. Now, the...
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Karl Rove, former Senior Advisor and Deputy Chief of Staff to former President George W. Bush, right, with Sen. Orrin Hatch on the floor of the Republican National Convention.
Karl Rove’s Plan for Beating Obama
Karl Rove steered George W. Bush to two presidential election victories. Now Rove, the brain behind a super-PAC called American Crossroads, is trying to do the same for Mitt Romney — and Rove spelled out his strategy for unseating President...
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