Tornado Alley (PROG)

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Good one, haha .. re this bit .. "As for his political ideology, things are a bit ambiguous. As the Washington Post noted" [ http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/post/karl-rove-offended-by-clint-eastwoods-chrysler-ad/2012/02/06/gIQAYt3HuQ_blog.html ] "on Monday:" ..

below is an excerpt from the first link under "Read more" at the bottom of the article in the link above ..

"Nonprofit “social welfare” organizations and other tax-exempt groups with confidential donors have spent more than $24 million in the 2012 cycle on political ads naming President Obama .. http://www.washingtonpost.com/barack-obamas-2012-reelection-campaign/gIQAVODn7O_topic.html?tid=rr_mod_candidate .. or, less frequently, his Republican rivals, according to a Washington Post analysis of data supplied by Kantar Media-CMAG, which tracks ad spending. That accounts for about 40 percent of the money estimated to have been spent on advertising related to the presidential candidates.

Insert: ??? "naming President Obama" .. does "in the 2012 cycle on political ads" means the rep primaries? .. am assuming yes .. i just don't know whether or not there are pro-Obama ads running, guess not.

Crossroads GPS, a nonprofit group backed by GOP political guru Karl Rove, has spent more than $10 million on ads targeting Obama over the federal deficit, energy policies and other issues in the 2012 cycle. American Crossroads, a sister group registered as a super PAC, has spent just $133,000 on such ads, the data show.

The disparity means that nearly all of the broadcast messages that voters have encountered from the Crossroads groups were paid for by persons unknown. The super PAC side of the operation reported taking in $18.2 million in 2011, including $7 million from Texas billionaire Harold Simmons and his company; the nonprofit side raised almost twice as much from unidentified donors.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/secret-money-is-funding-more-election-ads/2012/02/03/gIQAfTxEuQ_story.html

Mystery political advertising sucks. Am pretty sure all here, still, have to by law finish with something like .. 'This ad is created by/on behalf of..' .. whatever .. followed by the name of an individual or a party. The "still" was included as so many of your 'innovations' :( (superpac) often drift over, and am sure there are many here who would love something similar.

Interesting one, F6, lol, just realized i haven't watched the ad yet. We got different ones, of course.

Aside: whew!!! .. 3 hours in the garden this evening has me beat! .. LOL .. we both need much more work .. hehe ..