{"id":2377,"date":"2012-08-05T16:23:45","date_gmt":"2012-08-05T20:23:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=2377"},"modified":"2012-08-05T16:23:45","modified_gmt":"2012-08-05T20:23:45","slug":"obama-super-pac-plans-30-million-battleground-ad-blitz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2012\/08\/obama-super-pac-plans-30-million-battleground-ad-blitz\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Super-PAC Plans $30 Million Battleground Ad Blitz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Priorities USA Action, the super-PAC backstopping President Obama&#8217;s presidential campaign, isn&#8217;t about to let the GOP money machine steamroll the president this fall. To bolster Obama, Priorities is ramping its anti-Romney campaign by buying up $30 million in broadcast and cable TV time in six crucial battleground states\u2014Colorado, Iowa, Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Virginia, the Washington Post reports.<\/p>\n<p>This ad buy is arguably Priorities&#8217; most crucial of the 2012 cycle. Obama&#8217;s road to victory in November runs through these six battleground states. And the GOP&#8217;s biggest outside groups, including the pro-Romney super-PAC Restore Our Future and dark-money groups Americans for Prosperity and Crossroads GPS, are pumping tens of millions in anti-Obama ads in these states. Obama will need all the reinforcements he can get\u2014that&#8217;s where Priorities comes into play.<\/p>\n<p><strong>MORE:\u00a0<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/mojo\/2012\/08\/obama-super-pac-ad-blitz-crossroads-gps\" target=\"_blank\">Obama Super-PAC Plans $30 Million Battleground Ad Blitz | Mother Jones<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Priorities USA Action, the super-PAC backstopping President Obama&#8217;s presidential campaign, isn&#8217;t about to let the GOP money machine steamroll the president this fall. To bolster Obama, Priorities is ramping its anti-Romney campaign by buying up $30 million in broadcast and cable TV time in six crucial battleground states\u2014Colorado, Iowa, Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Virginia, the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,22],"tags":[1278,90,42,1327],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2377"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2377"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2378,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2377\/revisions\/2378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}