The national right wing’s top Senate target: Ohio

[Old and In the Way]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/post/the-national-right-wings-top-senate-target-ohio/2012/03/15/gIQA3ZaMES_blog.html

The national right wing’s top Senate target: Ohio
By Greg Sargent

Outside conservative groups have spend nearly $5 million on ads attacking Senator Brown, according to data provided by the Brown campaign and its media tracker. National Dems who track ad spending say no other race in the country has been targeted by so much outside money.

Follow the money and you can see that conservative groups seem to view Senator Brown’s seat as key to the GOP’s efforts to take back the Senate. The 60 Plus Association, a self-proclaimed advocacy group for seniors, has spent over $1.4 million on ads targeting Brown. The U.S Chamber of Commerce has spent around $2.4 million on ads, the source says, over $1 million of that in the last couple months.

The Rove-founded Crossroads GPS spent $800,000 in 2011 on ads attacking Brown, a group spokesman confirms. Two other groups — the Concerned Women for America, and the Coalition to Protect Patients’ Rights — have spent another $270,000, the ad-tracking source says.

Total: Nearly $5 million in ads attacking Senator Brown alone.

No surprise that they are going after a high profile Democratic progressive,,,,

[southernyankeebelle]

1. Do people know that Rove group is going after him. What are Brown's chances of reelection especially

since they had lots of problems with the governor.

[blm]

2. Crossroads will definitely be targeting Senate and Congressional Dems in swing states.

I expect they'll spend only a minimal amount on Presidential campaign, though, because they'd rather store a huge stash for Jeb2016.

[lastlib]

3. 60 Plus Ass. = Koch Bros.

Day-um these right-wingers!! I loathe them with every fiber of my being!!

[julian09]

4. Seems to me some of these groups are voting against own best interests.

What has Brown done against seniors, women and patients rights.
You would think that after voting in repugs in 2010, they would see the folly that followed.
Attacking womens' reproductive rights, healthcare for the poor, planned parenthood. The seniors don't want to privatize social security or medicare republicans do.

[Cosmocat]

5. Brown is as close to the real deal as you can get

By politician standards, he is a pretty darn good man.

[DFW]

6. Sherrod Brown is definitely one of our best

If her weren't, the radical right wouldn't be blowing $5 million (probably to double or triple) trying
to discredit him. I contributed to him last year, will again this year. Might as well--no national races
in the Dallas area we stand a chance of winning.