It's Not Easy Being a Super PAC
It's official: politicians are better at spending rich people's money than rich people are at spending their own money on politics.
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Billionaire George Soros is donating $1 million to the pro-Obama super PAC Priorities USA, The New York Times' Nicholas Confessore reports.
It's official: politicians are better at spending rich people's money than rich people are at spending their own money on politics.
Today in Ad Watch: Rapid response ads suffer on slow news days, President Obama defends his Medicare cuts, and an Ohio senate candidate goes on spring break.
Today in Ad Watch: Remember how in like every political story for the past year, reporters would caution that this election is all about the economy? Right now, that's not true. It's about welfare, Medicare, student loans, and mean ads.
American Crossroads released a video Friday calling on President Obama to repudiate a Priorities USA ad that links Mitt Romney to a woman's death from cancer, and in it, they show a lot of skepticism that the Obama campaign operates independently from the Priorities Super PAC.
Former Clinton lawyer Lanny Davis expressed his displeasure with what we at The Atlantic Wire are calling the Romney-cancer ad, proving that if the Romney camp can't adequately take advantage of an opportunity, a Democrat will have to do it for them.
Today in Ad Watch: Usually Democrats are the ones reminiscing about the 1990s, but now it's Mitt Romney getting nostalgic for the Clinton years. Meanwhile, a pro-President Obama Super PAC beats up Romney with a sad story about a woman's cancer.
Today in Ad Watch: Birthers get their very own TV ad, while a pro-President Obama group takes an Olympic shot at Mitt Romney. Plus: Allen West shows his caring side, and Elizabeth Warren says she's fighting for consumers.
Today in Ad Watch: Mitt Romney pounces on President Obama's comment that the private sector is "fine," a pro-Obama Super PAC launches several ads attacking Romney as a jerk, and Allen West shows his warm and fuzzy side.
After decrying such Republican outside campaign efforts, Democrats are following suit
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