Republicans double down on efforts to buy election

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Thursday November 01, 2012 · 4:40 AM PDT

2012/11/01 · 04:40

While I am encouraged by the President's latest poll numbers, I simply can't breath a sigh of relief until this thing is over. This is the first Presidential election to happen post Citizens United, and as expected Republicans are using the unfair money advantage handed to them by the SCOTUS to swamp the airwaves in a number of states with ads in a last ditch attempt to rescue a fledging Romney campaign in the final days leading up to the election. This from politico:

The conservative American Future Fund is pouring over $5 million into television and radio ads in the battleground states over the next six days, including significant investments in Pennsylvania and Michigan TV, AFF strategists tell me.

More on this over the jump::

For the final stretch of the election, AFF will spend $4 million on statewide broadcast and cable TV in three Midwestern battlegrounds: Pennsylvania, Michigan and Ohio. The group will run $1.88 million in Michigan ads, $1.67 million in Pennsylvania ads and $457,000 on Ohio TV spots.
GOP outside groups have gone all-out in a dramatic fashion for the last week of the campaign, expanding their presidential advertising into places like Pennsylvania and New Mexico, where Republicans have competed in the past but where Mitt Romney has not made a major push this year. Romney has recently begun airing Pennsylvania TV ads, but has not campaigned heavily in the state.

AFF is also mounting a $1.3 million radio campaign on a more conventional swing-state map, spending about $107,000 in Colorado, $182,000 in Florida, $80,000 in Iowa, $85,000 in Nevada, $80,000 in New Hampshire, $218,000 in Ohio, $167,000 in Virginia and $210,000 in Wisconsin.

My reason for posting this diary is to remind us that we should never get too comfortable until this thing is over. This is going to be a fight to the very end. It's literally a fight between money and people. With that said, I have faith that our ground-game will prevail in the end.

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