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Subscribe to RSSIn a new TV ad criticizing President Obama, Mitt Romney's campaign appears to be targeting single women voters who may like the president a great deal but are skeptical if he can deliver the type of change that he was talking about. NBC's David Gregory reports.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Mitt Romney’s getting back in the game.
His campaign went dark on television 11 days ago, but today it booked $4.5 million (so far) in TV ads in eight battleground states today, according to NBC News and ad-tracker SMG Delta.
There was a lot of free media out of the convention for Romney, but it was striking that the only advertising run was from the Obama campaign and pro-Romney outside groups.
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Romney is also able now to tap into general-election funds, which he wasn’t able to prior to accepting the nomination a week ago.
The states seeing the biggest spending in this buy round are Virginia, Ohio, and Florida with about $1 million each.
Also notably, Romney is spending about $600,000 in this buy on North Carolina, a state most analysts see as beginning to trend toward Romney, but close enough that he may have to spend money here.
The other states he will be up in with this buy – Colorado, Iowa, New Hampshire, and Nevada.
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Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney talks briefly with reporters after stopping to buy two pizzas at Lui-Lui restaurant in West Lebanon, New Hampshire September 5, 2012.
Ad spending has now reached $573 million for this general-election presidential race. With the help of outside groups, Romney and allies are outspending Obama and his supporters $303 million to $269 million.
President Obama’s campaign is the biggest-single advertiser at $218 million. Romney has spent just $79 million on ads. But the Crossroads groups are making up the difference big time, spending $106 million.
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Another noteworthy fact, for all that Restore Our Future did for Romney in primaries and for all the talk of Priorities USA’s fundraising problems, Priorities has actually outspent Restore this election, $45 million to $41 million.
The problem for Democrats is that there are multiple outside groups supporting Romney who are spending substantial amounts of money. In addition to Crossroads and Restore, the Koch Brothers’-backed Americans for Prosperity has spent $47 million, for example.
The Washington Post's Chris Cillizza, Democratic strategist and former top advisor to VP Al Gore, Michael Feldman and President of the Center for American Progress Neera Tanden talk about what President Barack Obama needs to say in his speech to lay out a vision for the next four years.
And once again, there is no advertising for Romney in Wisconsin (despite the pick of Paul Ryan as VP), Michigan, or Pennsylvania.
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That is striking. Mitt Romney is one of the smartest guys around. I don't know exactly what his strategy is, but then, neither do the Democrats, which may be the whole point. It's possible that he doesn't want to compete with the negative impressions the Democrats are creating about themselves. For example in this Associated Press article:
I was just wondering.. if Republicans grant voting rights to Sperm --- Will Pre-Cum get jealous?
As a sociopath Romney can lie without remorse. His lies can be convincing as he doesn't express the usual "tells" that show one is lying. Yet, fact check after fact check shows that he is, indeed, lying out his teeth. Ryan, on the other hand, is a worse liar and he does show the "tells" when he is lying. Look at his eyes and his body language when he is lying. Of course, sometimes they think what they are saying is the truth because it is right there on the teleprompter or in the quick briefing from their handlers.
YADA, YADA, YADA, BLAH, BLAH, BLAH. Here we go AGAIN telling the AMERICANS who is funding and the monies involved. Is that PROOF enough that ROMPPY the CLOWN BOZO and I'M LY'IN Ryan are CORRUPT and BRIBED by his OWN 1-10%. It wreaks FOUL and NOT about this NATION. But THEM ONLY.
YOU MORONS who get 15% Tax breaks. How Dis-Honest and EVASIVE to AMERICA as a CITIZEN. !!!!
Top four Obama donors in 2008.....JP Morgan Chase, UBS, Citicorp and Goldman Sachs. You liberal fools think your man is not infected with corrupt money should take your blinders off. Those bribes don't come without paybacks.
Top Romney endorses, Groups with national networks of donors - like EMILY's List and Club for Growth - make for particularly big bundlers.
Goldman Sachs
$676,080
JPMorgan Chase & Co
$520,299
Morgan Stanley
$513,647
Bank of America
$510,728
Credit Suisse Group
$427,560
Citigroup Inc
$363,015
Barclays
$349,400
Wells Fargo
$320,025
Kirkland & Ellis
$309,042
Deloitte LLP
$286,110
PricewaterhouseCoopers
$266,650
UBS AG
$259,200
HIG Capital
$220,495
Blackstone Group
$219,525
Bain Capital
$172,500
Elliott Management
$172,475
General Electric
$158,800
Ernst & Young
$156,425
Marriott International
$154,837
Bain & Co
$145,800
Anything else.
Bite Me Biden is going to speak for an hour tonight. I can use a good laugh as much as anyone, but I don't know if I can laugh for an hour straight. This should be good.
CYSS,
And how long did Dick Cheney speak for at the RNC in Tampa? Bush/Cheney are the kiss of death for the Republican Party and Romney, and that is why they weren't invited - no doubt about that.
As they say in boxing, LET’S get ready to RUUUMBLE!!. Romney has been out fund-raising Obama for months, $100 million in August alone. Heading into the 4th quarter, Team Romney’s ground game will wear down Obama whose only defense is the race card.
While Obama overspends his campaign fund just like he overspends America. What a loser.
Yep ... They will overspend and still LOSE!
Can You Spell Socialism?
These are donated funds that he is spending and he can spend them up until the last penny!!!
I gotta cold one in the fridge for Ya Babe.
I don't always drink beer but when I do, I prefer Dos Equis. Actually, I'll drink any kind of beer you got in your fridge! Stay thirsty my friends.
Sorry Mr. Romney, but I oppose;
“ Zero Environmental Awareness
“Wall Street Deregulation”
“Banking Deregulation”
“Middle Class - Tax Increases”
“Middle Class - Cost of Living Increase”
“Repealing - Fair Pay for Women”
“Repealing - Roe vs. Wade”
“Repealing - Health Care Reform”
“Divisiveness”
“No Immigration Reform Policy”
“No Balanced Budget”
“Tax Cuts for those earning more than a Million Dollars a year”
I'm Pro Obama/Biden 2012 and Four more years, Four More Years...
You should change your name to Unemployable Dave, I want my free stuff.
Ditto to HonestDave, fully agree with you ; he has no plan for the middle class nor for the nation only for the rich and self
JT,
Really a poor come back - I'll have to give you an "F" for content and an "A" for divisiveness.
Romney desperately needs some big, new lies. The media and Bill Clinton exposed the previous seven. Of course, there will be absolutely no relevant information on his plots, if elected, so ads will have to be regular old fear, smear, distortion, and more lies, especially more lies.
Mitt desperately wants to be elected president. Just as in Massachusetts, he is not very committed to serving. He wants his name in history, not all the darn work. His focus will be on travel as a food critic and buffoon. Andrea Merkle, Chancellor of Germany can hardly wait for a U.S. President to sneak up behind her and massage her shoulders again. She is bushed from the Euro struggle.
He thinks, "Why must everyone want me to reveal what everyone has revealed for the last forty years? Don't they know my dad was a governor? I bought that same job in Massachusetts. I can afford the Presidency with the help of my bosses, the Koch Brothers!"
In Romney's tiny little mind, he thinks everything is for sale, and you just have to get a mountain of money and do it.
Are you for sale? I'm not.
Stard, yes you are for sale. It is obvious that you do not have a job. How do you live for free? So, you are for sale. Just like, feisty, Bev, Amy, and Pat. You folks are on here 24/7. That tells me one thing. None of you slugs work. That also means the taxpayers are paying your way. There. YOU and YOUR FRIENDS are FOR SALE.
Joe that must describe you very well-seems that you do not work any or as much as those on this blog.
Have you been watching the Democratic National
Apology?
Is your house worth more today, than it was four
years ago? Do you owe less on your credit cards
today than you did four years ago? Not counting
executive bonuses, do you earn more money today than
you did four years ago? Do you have more money in
the bank than you did four years ago? Have you been
promoted in the last four years, not just a new job
title, but a real promotion? Not counting executive
bonuses, have you had a raise in the last four
years? Jay Leno can't answer yes to all of these
questions, can you?
Do you know anyone who has lost a home, a car or a
job in the last four years? Are you tired of hearing
excuses for Joe Biden and Barack Obama?
Isn't it time America had a president we don't have
to apologize for?
If Republicans fail, we lose Billions.
If Obamacrats fail we lose Trillions.
It's time to cut our losses.
Is all of this Obama's fault?
Is your house worth more today, than it was four years ago? PRESIDENT OBAMA HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH THE MORTGAGE CRISIS, PUT THE BLAME WHERE IT SHOULD GO.
Do you owe less on your credit cards today than you did four years ago? PRESIDENT OBAMA DID NOT TELL YOU NOT TO PAY DOWN YOUR CREDIT DEBT.
Not counting executive bonuses, do you earn more money today than
you did four years ago? THIS IS NOT PRESIDENT OBAMA'S FAULT, THIS IS THE FAULT OF THE EMPLOYERS WHO DON'T WANT TO PAY DECENT WAGES.
Do you have more money in the bank than you did four years ago? THIS IS NOT PRESIDENT OBAMA'S FAULT THAT YOU HAVE TO USE YOUR SAVINGS OR THAT YOU MAKE LOWER WAGES AND IT IS HARD TO SAVE. ASK FOR A RAISE.
Have you been promoted in the last four years, not just a new job
title, but a real promotion? THIS IS NOT PRESIDENT OBAMA'S FAULT, TALK TO YOUR EMPLOYER AND ASK THEM WHY YOU CAN'T GET A PROMOTION.
Not counting executive bonuses, have you had a raise in the last four
years? I HAVE HAD A RAISE AND IT WAS NOT BECAUSE OF PRESIDENT OBAMA, IT WAS BECAUSE MY EMPLOYER FELT IT WAS APPROPRIATE AND WELL DESERVED.
Jay Leno can't answer yes to all of these
questions, can you?
Do you know anyone who has lost a home, a car or a
job in the last four years? YES I DO, IT IS BECAUSE THEIR EMPLOYER LAID THEM OFF AND THE PRESIDENT HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH THAT.
Are you tired of hearing excuses for Joe Biden and Barack Obama? YES AND I WISH THEY WOULD SHUT UP, BECAUSE BOTH OF THESE MEN CAUSED NONE OF THESE ISSUES THAT YOU "COMPLAIN" ABOUT.
Anything else.
First; If you are stupid enough to believe Obama is for you. You need to study the Truth! How many of you demo's have read any of the EX orders he has put out since he was elected? How many of you know what he has done and is doing through treaty's so to bypass the Constitution? How many of you know that Obama gave the vote counting over to a foreign company to do the counting, and George Soros owns the lions share of that company?
AND YOU want more....WAKE UP....YOUR HEAD IS IN THE SAND
Romney, IS NO BETTER.......PAWNS TO THE ELITE.....Sheep you are until they are all removed and replaced by someone who truly is "FOR AND BY THE PEOPLE"
You should have thrown your hat in the ring and ran for president.
Jesus H would you look at Romney's horse teeth in the pic. Totally made for lying through and he's so good at it, though only second to Ryan. A marriage baptized in a "Mo" temple, somewhere.
What all this talk about the President destroying the country?? Are you people crazy or what?? If the dumbest President in history (Bush) didn't do it..what makes you think the brightest President since JFK will??
You "The sky is falling people" didn't have a word to say when Bush let Wall Street run rampant and cause the second worse economic melt down in US history!!! Why don't you guys just put on your white
sheet and let the world see you for who you really are???
After tonight there will be no more undecided for Romney to capture. Independents cannot vote for the lying GOP party. The Kochs would be better off spending all that ad money feeding hungry people.
Kinda like Sadam Hussein throwing out scraps of stale moldy bread to the peasants!!!!
Joe Thomas people like you are what's wrong with this country...... why don't you get on your little tiny boat with the four coves on it and go back to Ireland ok laddy!
Road- wanna be a- warrior with the lies your man Mutt is telling he'll be road kill any minute now!
ContemptMe get your sheets starched hard enough to stick it right up your.... oh that right you guys defecate from the mouth sorry!
Now that Willards tax returns have been stolen, how can he show them to the public?
Willard will deny anything that gets published. Maybe it was the Cock Bros. that actually broke into that building and sent the ransom note!!!!!
Can You Spell Socialism....now you know you can follow what anybody is saying for more than 5 mins at a time...so how are you going to laugh for an hour??? 5 mins of laughing is no where close to an hour.
What good is capatilism when it's bearers only speak in lies and cherry pick the principles from which they choose to govern?
DUMB FUX Propaganda channel is considered on the air?
Mittens wants to repeal "Obamacare", why not also repeal "Romneycare" and equalize it across the board. When someone is malicious regarding another person, this means they will do anything to take the camera away from them. Mittens, why is your money in off-shore accounts, you want the president's job, bring your money back to America.
Yes, Show us your taxes Mr. Romney!
Yes, Show us your taxes Mr. Romney!
When is the American people going to realize that Romney and Ryan are practically quoting Adolph Hitler from the Nazi Germany Days. The elderly can't get social security, or medicare, the elderly and poor can't vote if they don't have ID, the women are forced to have kids, regardless of the circumstances of their pregnancy, no taxes on the rich, only on the middle class and poor, the Nazi's used the term "a good soldier' quite often.
Don't be surprised if the Republican's take the white house if the Gas Chambers from Nazi Germany are open in the United States, as they are practically telling the American people of their intentions should they win the White House.
I wonder what Mrs. romney has in common with the average American woman other than a vigina? Her speech at the RNC would make a great sitcom, in my opinion. I'm sorry Mrs. Romney, all the women I know didn'tr come from money then marry money, nor did any of them have nannies for their kids.
The GOP/RNC "Romulian" is full of "Political Hot Air." The GOP/RNC likes to pollute the air with political flip-flopping, economic evil, social sadistic policies, and "Spewing" a "Culture Of Corruption." That is fact!