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The negative tone of the Obama-supporting SuperPACs

July 5, 2012 by B. Daniel Blatt

In his piece this morning in the National Review, Jim Geraghty takes on another media narrative, that of the supposed “Republican advantage in super-PAC spending”. Seems the president’s allies are outspending their adversaries’. And they’re doing it by attack the presumptive Republican nominee, not promoting the Democrat:

What’s more, the advertising and other efforts by Obama’s allies have been relentlessly negative. Every expenditure by every independent group must be filed with the FEC (usually within a matter of days) and must be classified as in support of or in opposition to a particular candidate. The amounts range from millions of dollars for advertising campaigns to $12.50 for “staff time” spent on a press release or e-mail to support or oppose a candidate. Overall, in addition to the $35.3 million and $9 million mentioned above, independent groups have spent $7.7 million on ads and efforts classified as in support of Romney, while they spent only $961,854.62 in support of Obama.

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In fact, the president’s allies run the single biggest-spending and most negative super PAC of all: Priorities USA Action, founded by Obama’s former deputy White House press secretary, Bill Burton; Sean Sweeney, the former chief of staff to Rahm Emanuel; and Harold Ickes, who was deputy chief of staff to President Bill Clinton. This super PAC has spent $13.5 million in opposition to Romney so far, outspending all the super-PAC efforts opposing the president combined. While Priorities USA Action is often described as a “pro-Obama” super PAC in news coverage, it has yet to spend a single penny that it categorizes as “supporting” President Obama; all of its spending is classified as “opposing” Mitt Romney.

Emphasis added. Read the whole thing. Seems the Democrat has gone from hope and change to attack and distort.

Filed Under: 2012 Presidential Election, Obama Hopenchange

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