527s Gearing Up Ad Machine

527s GEARING UP AD MACHINE
[SOURCE: BusinessWeek, AUTHOR: David Kiley]
Seemingly taking their cue from the Clinton campaign’s negative attacks on Sen. Barack Obama as a kind of ice-breaker, Democratic 527s groups are starting to gear up an onslaught of ads that may not rise to the level of outright falsehoods like the anti-Kerry Swiftboat attacks in 2004, but still pretty harsh. Republican 527 Freedomswatch.com has around $250 million stockpiled, and has spent very little. It is likely to wait until after the Democratic convention in August to run 75% of its budget. That is a lot of spend to jam into two months against Democrats in the national, as well as local and state-wide elections.
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