GOP Groups Plan $1 Billion Push for Romney

[WI_DEM]

(Unlike 2008, it's probable that Obama will be out-spent by Romney and his combined pacs)

"Republican super PACs and other outside groups shaped by a loose network of prominent conservatives -- including Karl Rove, the Koch brothers and Tom Donohue of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce -- plan to spend roughly $1 billion on November's elections for the White House and control of Congress," Politico reports.

"That total includes previously undisclosed plans for newly aggressive spending by the Koch brothers, who are steering funding to build sophisticated, county-by-county operations in key states... Koch-related organizations plan to spend about $400 million ahead of the 2012 elections -- twice what they had been expected to commit."

Alexander Burns: "Democrats have been raising the alarm about outside spending for some time and clearly have reason to be afraid. It's anyone's guess how heavily all that money will influence the election: these groups are not all equally effective or equally committed to the same set of message points."

http://politicalwire.com/archives/2012/05/30/gop_groups_plan_1_billion_push_for_romney.html

[global1]

1. This Might Be A Dumb Question But - Are They Actually Paying People To Vote Repug ........

or is it just the power of the negative advertisement that they believe will influence people to vote Repug?

There has been so much talk lately about negative campaign ads - one would think most Americans would be so sensitized to negativity that they wouldn't be influenced by it. It would be spending good money on something that might not work as effectively as it has in the past. It seems like most people I know just tune-out any political ads now. So outside of actually paying people to vote one way or another - I just don't see spending that amount of money as being cost effective.

What a sin that so much money is being spent on this election. I know the stakes are big - but think about how that same amount of money can be put to good use and help people.

It seems like the Repug talking point of the month is "Obama is a job killer". I've heard a number of Repug talking heads say that just this a.m. Think about how many people could be put to work if that $1 billion being spent by the Repugs on this election were paid out in a living wage to unemployed Americans.

We really live in a sick and twisted society now where we know what it will take to turn things around and yet the Repugs will do everything possible to not let it happen.

[Joe the Revelator]

2. This is important

[warrior1]

3. at this point

don't you think that people who are going to vote have all ready made up their minds?

[Erose999]

4. If they're pushing that hard either they need more fiber in their diet, or theres a blockage...

[applegrove]

5. "I don't mind that you are rich; I mind that you are buying my government". OWS

[Aerows]

6. $10 Billion dollars won't get that idiot elected

If I have anything to say about it. Get out the vote, and vote out the R's.