Romney and PACs Flooded Florida with 12,700 Ads

.

Romney Forces Crush Gingrich in Florida Ad Wars

(Mother Jones) – Quoting a “source monitoring the Sunshine State ad war,” Politico reports that the Romney campaign and pro-Romney super-PAC Restore Our Future spent $15.3 million on television ads in Florida. That’s 450 percent more than Gingrich’s campaign and super-PAC Winning Our Future spent on TV ads. And that doesn’t include money spent on direct mail sent to voters, get-out-the-vote efforts, and other non-TV campaigning.

“Until the Adelsons’ checks arrived in January, Winning Our Future had collected just $2 million, according to the filings. Its large donors included Sivan Ochshorn, Mrs. Adelson’s youngest daughter, who contributed $500,000 to the PAC in late December. The pro-Gingrich PAC also collected a $500,000 contribution from Harold Simmons, a Texas billionaire and major conservative donor, as well as another $500,000 donation from W. S. Propst, an Alabama businessman.”

In other words, just as Gingrich clinched a double-digit victory in South Carolina after blitzing the airwaves there with ads attacking Romney, Romney and his allies are doing the same in Florida. And boy is did it paying off!

Booman’s fp story on Florida results – Romney Does Great, GOP Not So Much. CNN exit poll analysis.

G.O.P. Donors Showing Thirst to Top Obama

• Analysis: Financial titans rally to Romney’s cause
• Romney and outside groups paid for almost 13,000 television ads

"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."