If Mitt Romney wins, the $1 billion conservative super PACs raised this election will be seen as money well spent. If he loses, there will be a fight among the biggest groups over which one made the most effective ads and who gets to be the "shadow boss" of the Republican Party.
Two conservative nonprofits, one started by GOP strategist Karl Rove and the other backed by billionaire Koch brothers, have poured almost $60 million into TV ads to influence the presidential race so far, outgunning all super PACs put together.
Mitt Romney says President Obama's attacks are unfair because Hillary Clinton said so, and the Koch brothers-backed group Americans for Prosperity spends $9 million attacking Obamacare the day after the Supreme Court ruling.
Today in Ad Watch: President Obama and the Koch brothers-backed group Americans for Prosperity fight over who understands the little guy best, while a conservative women's group gently condemns Obamacare without speaking its name.
In his reply to a letter sent from a Koch Companies employee Wednesday, Obama's campaign manager Jim Messina criticized the Koch brothers' Americans for Prosperity Fund and helped advance the ever-growing Koch-Obama spat.
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