Unequal Struggle in Florida

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Unequal Struggle in Florida

By Ed Kilgore

Between now and Tuesday, Floridians are going to get a heavy dose of TV and radio attack ads from the campaigns and Super-PACs of Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich (plus some anti-Romney ads mishievously placed by the public-sector union AFSCME, not big Newt fans).

But despite Winning Our Future’s fresh $5 million from Dr. Miriam Adelson (wife of Casino Sheldon Adelson), Gingrich is getting badly outgunned in Florida. According to ABC’s Michael Falcone:

So far, Romney has bought $5.6 million worth of airtime and the pro-Romney super PAC, Restore Our Future, has shelled out a whopping $8.2 million, according to a Republican media buyer who is tracking ad spending in the state.

Compare that to $837,000 spent by the Gingrich campaign and the nearly $3 million of airtime bought by Winning Our Future, a super PAC supporting the former House speaker, and it’s easy to understand one reason why Gingrich has slipped in the most recent polls in the Sunshine State.

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Given his financial situation, he’s having to substitute sheer viciousness for ad time. And his Super-PAC’s Florida ads certainly leave little to the imagination in painting Romney as a flip-flopping crypto-liberal who loves him some baby-killers:

Hard to say if it will make much of a dent. But it’s certainly not going to do much for an atmosphere of unity among Florida Republicans going forward. Right now they’d be justified in assuming these two pols would just as soon feed each other to the gators and pythons of the Everglades.

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/political-animal-a/2012_01/unequal_struggle_in_florida035059.php

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1. Kick

for Citizens United's man, Newt.

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2. Newt was in Palm Beach last night according to the Palm Beach Daily News. The hostess

is an old time friend but the guests, although smiling (they always do of course when there's a camera around) did not look to enthused..LOL.

www.pbdailynews.com