"Ads Attacking Health Law Stagger Outspent Democrats"

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Ads Attacking Health Law Stagger Outspent Democrats

By CARL HULSE at the NY Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/15/us/politics/ads-attacking-on-health-law-stagger-outspent-democrats.html?from=homepage&_r=0

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Since September, Americans for Prosperity, a group financed in part by the billionaire Koch brothers, has spent an estimated $20 million on television advertising that calls out House and Senate Democrats by name for their support of the Affordable Care Act.

The unusually aggressive early run of television ads, which has been supplemented by other conservative initiatives, has gone largely unanswered, and strategists in both parties agree it is taking a toll on its targets.

Building on the success, the deep-pocketed organization disclosed on Tuesday that it was expanding its Senate efforts with $1.8 million in airtime to attack Democratic House members running for the Senate in Iowa and Michigan, where Democrats are viewed as holding an early advantage. The group was also moving into Montana, a state where Democrats may struggle to defend a seat, on behalf of a Republican House member running for the Senate.

Campaign experts said they believe that the early advertising blitz has driven down the support for Senate incumbents in highly competitive states such as Louisiana and North Carolina that are critical to the Democratic Party’s push to hold its majority.



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[Ninga]

1. My pockets are down to the lint...I don't have enough resources to donate to every worthy

candidate.....so disheartening.

I hope we don't lose the Senate...

[Drale]

2. Between court costs and anti-fact ads

I bet they have already spent more than they claim they will lose because of the ACA and even more than the law has cost to implement.

[frylock]

3. they're just throwing good money after bad trying to influence an election that's 10 months away..

how many millions of people will be enrolled and benefitting from ACA next month? how many more will be enrolled by Fall?