Ad wars: Why is Romney's Super PAC pissing away cash in Michigan?

[Playinghardball]

Let's take a look where the big players have spent their money this week:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?key=0AtlAkTpK89FudDlmZ3JPTWFldE84MTl6R1VQeGdJM3c&output=html&single=true&gid=0&range=A35%3AK47&output=html&range=A35%3AK47

Americans for Prosperity, the Koch vehicle, was silent on the presidential front. They only spent about $600,000 last week, so it appears they are winding things down. Perhaps they've decided to stop pissing away their cash?

Restore our Future is Mitt Romney's Super PAC, and their spending is, uh, interesting. They spent over a million in Michigan, which no one thinks is competitive anymore. I mean, that 50-41 Obama lead in the polling composite seems pretty cut-and-dry. Let's take a few moment to laugh at the moron conservative millionaires who wrote the checks for those ads.

On the other hand, the nearly $1 million Restore spent in Wisconsin makes more sense. For a candidate desperate for competitive states, Wisconsin appeared to fit the bill—10 electoral votes and narrowed polling. Thus, Rove and the Romney campaign joined in, and collectively outspent the Democrats by about $1.5 million.

And what did they get for that Wisconsin investment? A huge Democratic surge in the state—not just Obama, but Democratic Senate hopeful Tammy Baldwin as well. So even when they

More at: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/09/21/1134988/-Ad-wars-where-they-ve-spent-this-week

[aquart]

1. Cut and dried.

[saidsimplesimon]

2. Why you ask?

Is it because big donors in Grand Rapids want a local bang for the buck? Certain business people may not appreciate the focus on their empires. Sorry, I can't fill in the blanks, pure speculation.