President Obama launches new $25M ad campaign in nine swing states

The Obama campaign is spending $25 million on an ad buy this month that will target nine swing states, including Ohio and Florida. The announcement by the campaign comes two days after President Barack Obama held his first official campaign rallies and as it released a 60-second spot titled “Go,” touting Obama’s accomplishments and continuing the campaign’s “forward-looking” theme. Obama campaign strategist David Axelrod said their likely opponent Mitt Romney has spent $55 million on ads already in the 2012 campaign and that 90 percent of them have been aimed at his opponents. Axelrod called the Republican super-PACs “Koch brothers contract killers,” and said the campaign will “respond vigorously” to each ad put out by the outside groups.