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PAC vows to spend $800,000 on Todd Akin in Missouri.
A group that calls itself the Now or Never Political Action Committee announced Wednesday it will spend $800,000 on television ads to back Todd Akin for the U.S. Senate in Missouri. The organization also is sponsoring TV ad buys in several other states,...
Read More...Last-minute outside money flows into Todd Akin campaign.
Last-minute money has flowed into Missouri to bolster Todd Akin’s U.S. Senate campaign with TV advertisements despite previous vows by some national groups to boycott the Republican’s campaign. The Now or Never super PAC said Thursday that it had...
Read More...Super PAC Ups Pro-Akin Ad Buy To $1 Million.
Now or Never PAC, the conservative, Missouri-based super PAC supporting Todd Akin, has upped it's ad buy in the final week of the Missouri Senate race from $800,000 to $1 million, the group's spokesman, Tyler Harber, told TPM Thursday. The ad, which...
Read More...SuperPAC drops another $1 million into 8th.
A Washington, D.C.-based SuperPAC will spend another $1 million on advertising in the 8th District Congressional race, we learned late Wednesday, bringing its spending total supporting Congressman Joe Walsh in the nationally watched race to $3 million. Now...
Read More...GOP super-PAC flips to support Akin.
A Republican super-PAC that had backed one of Rep. Todd Akin's (R-Mo.) primary opponents will jump in to help the embattled Senate candidate in the final week of his campaign. Now Or Never PAC will spend $800,000 on television advertising for the cash-strapped...
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Akin and his allies buy last-minute ad time.
In the final days before Election Day, Republican Senate candidate Todd Akin and his allies are making one last push to flood the airwaves and win over Missouri voters, in spite of his controversial comments on rape and abortion. Akin and the Missouri...
Read More...Pro-Todd Akin Political Action Committee Spending Millions for Jeff Flake AND Fellow Extremist Todd Akin.
As a lobbyist and career politician in Washington, Jeff Flake has stood with the extreme wing of his party, compiling a voting record that is nearly identical to extremist Todd Akin. Flake stood with Akin to block funding for Arizona firehouses,...
Read More...Conservative Super PAC Drops $800,000 Behind Todd Akin.
A conservative super PAC in Missouri, the Now or Never PAC, has placed $800,000 into an ad buy supporting Rep. Todd Akin in the final days of the Missouri Senate race, arguing that voters should support Akin because him will support Mitt Romney. The buy...
Read More...Gingrich: Akin win could rebuke GOP establishment.
Still mourning the death of her mother, Democratic Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill returned to campaigning Wednesday as Republican challenger Todd Akin gained a dual boost from a former presidential hopeful and a political group that had aided one his...
Read More...Missouri-based Super PAC wades into far-flunt Senate race.
A Missouri-based Super PAC initially set up to help bolster the Senate campaign of Sarah Steelman has now expanded its sights well outside the Show-Me State, targeting Democrats in Montana, Arizona, and Ohio. The Now or Never PAC was formed this February...
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FLAKE AD: CARMONA A ‘BULLY’ — Democrat Richard Carmona may be a decorated Vietnam War vet, one-time SWAT team leader and former U.S. surgeon general. But his Republican opponent, Jeff Flake, has been trying to dismantle that made-for-Hollywood résumé...
Read More...Fixbits: New NBC News/Marist College polls show Romney and Obama deadlocked in Colorado, while in Nevada, Obama is at 50 percent and Romney is at 47 percent. Sheldon Adelson gave the top pro-Romney super PAC, Restore Our Future, another...
Read More...For many residents of Illinois’ 8th Congressional District interviewed this week, the paramount issue of the upcoming election between incumbent U.S. Rep. Joe Walsh (R-Fox Lake) and opponent Tammy Duckworth is the $16 trillion national debt. In interviews,...
Read More...WASHINGTON, D.C. - Airlines for America (A4A), the industry trade organization for the leading U.S. airlines, today commended the House of Representatives for passing H.R. 6028, the No-Hassle Flying Act, which streamlines baggage security measures for...
Read More...Peter Roskam , 6th Congressional District Representative, released this statement: Washington, DC—Congressman Peter Roskam (IL-06) released the following statement on the eleventh anniversary of the September...
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