The political activities of the Koch brothers include the financial and political  influence of ... Their network of groups pledging to spend $889 million from 2009 –2016 and its .... The Koch brothers support primarily Republican candidates and  in 2010 they ... Americans for Prosperity reportedly spent $700,000 on ads  supporting ...
Aug 30, 2010 ... An advertisement cast the event as a populist uprising against ... The group  continues to stoke the rebellion. ... Rob Stein, a Democratic political strategist  who has studied the ... In 1967, after Fred Koch died, of a heart attack, Charles  renamed the ..... But five independent inquiries have since exonerated the ...
In politics, campaign advertising is the use of an advertising campaign through  the media to ... With the advent of television, war hero and presidential candidate  Dwight D. ... George McGovern ran a campaign free of political attack ads until  the very ... to increase in a far more dramatic manner than such “democrat”  memes.
Sep 25, 2016 ... International ... Many people have a visceral reaction to political attack ads on TV:  Not ... more effective than front-loading — airing ads early in the campaign — if  the .... about the proper role of independent groups in electoral politics. ... or  negative ads aired by Democratic or Republican candidates from the ...
Feb 13, 2012 ... The creator of the Willie Horton ad is going all out for Mitt Romney. ... insider”  while showing his face in front of an image of the Capitol dome. ... in 1988,  helped sink Michael Dukakis, the Democratic nominee for President. McCarthy,  who is fifty-nine, helps direct the pro-Romney group Restore Our Future, ...
Independent groups behind ads attacking Democratic candidates are "front groups for foreign-controlled companies."