Crossroads Back on in Missouri With Another Spot–Urging McCaskill to Control the Debt August 15, 2012

Crossraods GPS’ latest spot in the Missouri Senate race will be up on broadcast and cable outlets, according to the advocacy group.
Here is it:

Crossroads GPS Attacks McCaskill’s Jobs Record August 8, 2012

McCaskill to Take in Election Results in Clay County August 6, 2012

Missouri incumbent Democrat Claire McCaskill will make Clay County her election-night headquarters.
Her campaign says McCaskill will be at the Clay County headquarters on Antioch Road, north of the River for the Democratic primary.
She’s expected to easily win re-nomination, the general election is another matter. Recent polls indicate McCaskill trails all three of her leading GOP rivals.
McCaskill’s campaign says she’ll vote at a precinct near her Kirkwood home Tuesday morning.
She is then expected to hit Mid-Missouri.
The campaign says she’ll be at the Columbia headquarters working the phones along with other Democratic volunteers.
McCaskill will probably be more interested in finding out who she’ll face innovember than her own results.
For months, Republicans Todd Akin, John Brunner and Sarah Steelman have pounded McCaskill.
They have been joined by multi-million dollar advertising buys by the US Chamber of commerce and Crossroads GPS, founded by former George W. Bush’s political advisor Karl Rove.

American Crossroads Includes More Cash for Missouri Senate Campaign July 11, 2012

One of the biggest third-party players in the campaign of 2012 continues to keep the Missouri senate race on its radar.
Roll Call is reports that American Crossroads plans a $70 million dollar Senate blitz on behalf of Republican candidates. In this case, opposition money to try to block Democratic incumbent Claire McCaskill’s effort at winning a second Senate term.
The super PAC and its issues arm,’Crossroads GPS’, have reserved $23.5 million for TV advertising in the fall in six states.
$2.3 million of that is designated for the Missouri Senate race according to American Crossroads.
McCaskill has been trying to make an issue out of the outside money that is coming in against her. The US Chamber of Commerce is another group that has been buying commercial time to broadcast spots critical of McCaskill.
The Roll Call quotes American Crossroads President Steve Law, “We agree with Sen. (Mitch)McConnell that the current odds of taking the Senate are 50-50, and it’s our job to improve those odds,” said Law, a former aide to Senate Minority Leader McConnell.
The Republicans need to pick up four Senate seats to seize the majority. McCaskill is considered one of the most vulnerable Democrats on the ballot this fall. That is why Crossroads has been targeting her campaign and advertsing against her for months.
While McCaskill has complained about the millions in outside money, lately she has shifted her focus.
With the Missouri GOP Senate primary heading into its final weeks (the primary is August 7), McCaskill has charged her top three GOP rivals, Rep. Todd Akin; businessman John Brunner and former Treasurer Sarah Steelman are too extreme for most Missouri voters.
Polls show McCaskill in a tight race with each of the three in head-to-head match-ups.
Missouri has a tough political environment for some Democrats this year.
President Obama, according to the Real Clear Politics poll average, is trailing Republican Mitt Romney by three points in the Show-Me state. The Obama campaign is not sending many strong signals it will compete for Missouri. The state narrowly went for John McCain over the President four years ago.
An American Viewpoint poll conducted for Republican Congresswoman Vicky Hartzler’s campaign ion late June, claims Romney has a whopping 61-33% lead over the President in Hartzler’s largely rural central and west Missouri Missouri-4 Congressional district.
Presidential elections in Missouri are usually won in the suburbs around the state’s big cities of Kansas City and St. Louis.

Crossroad GPS Launches Boilerplate Commercial on McCaskill & 5 Other Dems June 13, 2012

The conservative 3rd party group Crossroasds GPS is hitting Missouri democratic incumbent Senator Claire McCaskill again with another new commercial in Missouri.
Voters in five other states will see very similar commercials against democrats in those states as well.
McCaskill and Democratic senators in Nebraska, Nevada, North Dakota, Ohio, Montana and Virginia are seeing commercials that look very similar to the anti-McCaskill ad that is part of Crossroads $4.6 million buy.
Here’s the McCaskill spot:

The commercials are VERY similar. Here the one broadcast against Senator Bill Nelson in Florida:

We’ll check the accuracy of the cliams in a bit.