GOP Attack Group Trains Big Guns on Iowa Race

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The Economic Freedom Fund has made its biggest buy of the campaign so far: $446,850* in television ads in Iowa’s 3rd District.

The ad, which you can see here, hits Democrat incumbent Leonard Boswell for voting against making Bush’s tax cuts permanent. Sales managers at the two local stations where the ad is running, KCCI, WHO, and WOI, said that it started running last Wednesday and will continue for three weeks.

The ad buy brings the known total expenditures of the Economic Freedom Fund to approximately $945,850 so far this election, and is further evidence that the group is aggressively targeting a select few House races (at least four). The group is also responsible for robo calls in Boswell’s district.

The latest poll shows Boswell leading Republican challenger Jeff Lamberti 52-41. As I wrote Thursday, the group has chosen races where Republicans trail by a significant margin (approximately ten points), but where the GOP candidate is seen to be within striking distance.

*Update: The group’s ad buy on WOI ($2,350) has been added to this piece since it first ran.

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