Crossroads Announcing $25 Million Ad Push

CBS 4 Wednesday 16th May, 2012

WASHINGTON (AP) — An independent group favoring Republican Mitt Romney is launching a $25 million, month-long advertising campaign against President Barack Obama in 10 states, further escalating an expensive TV ad war in presidential battleground states less than six months before Election Day. Crossroads GPS was opening its effort Thursday, spending $8 million on an that castigates Obama on the economy by using his words against him. '...


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