The ad assault continues over yesterday's SCOTUS ruling, with the Obama campaign releasing a web ad touting the benefits of ACA while this RNC ad features the word "tax" 15 times. Along those lines, the Koch Super PAC "Americans for Prosperity" also delivered on their promise to fund a 12-state ad attacking Obamacare as a tax increase:
Elspeth Reeve notices:
Clearly the group had ads ready to go no matter what the Court's ruling, but maybe they weren't expecting the tax part. The second half of the ad is dedicated to the old Republican message that Obama wasted too much time on the law. That would have been a more powerful argument if the law had been struck down.
It's also worth noting that the Annenberg Public Policy Center released a study this week tracking the money spent on deceptive advertising by groups such as Americans for Prosperity:
[F]rom December 1, 2011 through June 1, 2012, 85% of the dollars spent on presidential ads by four top-spending third-party groups known as 501(c)(4)s were spent on ads containing at least one claim ruled deceptive by fact-checkers at FactCheck.org, PolitiFact.com, the Fact Checker at the Washington Post or the Associated Press.
Americans for Prosperity was #3 on that list; #2 was the conservative American Future Fund, which tonight rushed out another ad going after the Obama administration for the Fast and Furious scandal, this time including a reference to Holder's contempt vote. Also today, the Romney campaign for some reason decided to go back to the McCain '08 playbook, using Hillary Clinton footage in an attempt to shame Obama for his negative advertising. It's airing in six states:
Finally, in the issues ad war, a Colorado-based organization working to legalize marijuana has released an ad in favor of this November's Amendment 64. It features a young man writing a hypothetical email to his father comparing marijuana to alcohol:
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