“Republican super PACs and other outside groups shaped by a loose network of prominent conservatives — including Karl Rove, the Koch brothers and Tom Donohue of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce — plan to spend roughly $1 billion on November’s elections for the White House and control of Congress,” Politico reports.
“That total includes previously undisclosed plans for newly aggressive spending by the Koch brothers, who are steering funding to build sophisticated, county-by-county operations in key states… Koch-related organizations plan to spend about $400 million ahead of the 2012 elections — twice what they had been expected to commit.”
Alexander Burns: “Democrats have been raising the alarm about outside spending for some
time and clearly have reason to be afraid. It’s anyone’s guess how
heavily all that money will influence the election: these groups are not
all equally effective or equally committed to the same set of message
points.”
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