Campaign ads

President Obama's latest ad ties Republican Mitt Romney to former President George W. Bush's policies. 

Romney’s campaign unveiled a new ad that embraced a more positive tone than his recent attacks on Obama's economic record. 

President Obama's reelection campaign released a new ad Tuesday attacking Mitt Romney's tax plan as one that is just helps the wealthiest Americans.

"You watched…and worried," a voiceover in the ad says. "Two wars. Tax cuts for millionaires. Debt piled up. And now we face a choice."

The ad goes on to say that Mitt Romney's tax plan is a "new $250,000 tax cut for millionaires."

The ad then says under Obama's preferred tax policy plan "millionaires pay a little more."

"I'm Barack Obama and I approve this message because to cut the deficit, we need everyone to pay their fair share," Obama  says at the end of the ad.

The ad ties into a larger theme both Obama's administration and his reelection campaign has been using in its attacks on Romney: paint Romney as a candidate pushing for tax cuts for the rich at the expensive of the country's economic deficit and the middle class.

Democrats recently successfully passed legislation in the Senate extending the Bush-era tax rates for income up to $250,000 a year while allowing the tax rates for income above that level to expire. Obama has called for an extension of the rates up to $250,000 a year.

Republicans in Congress  prefer an extension of all the Bush-era rates for another year, including income up to and above $250,000 a year.

The Republican outside group Crossroads GPS is up with a huge new ad buy that quotes CBS's Scott Pelley as talking about the "worst economic recovery America has ever had" to rip President Obama.

Several Olympic gold-medalists are praising Mitt Romney's handling of the 2002 Winter Olympics in a new ad released on Monday. 

The ad by the pro-Romney super-PAC Restore Our Future, titled "Olympics," features Olympic gold-medal winners Kristi Yamaguchi, Jimmy Shea and Derek Parra, and is set to air during the 2012 London Olympics. 

"As an athlete, you're training your whole life for that one moment at the Olympics ... Mitt Romney brought a huge sense of hope," says Yamaguchi in the ad. 

Romney is know for turning around the Salt Lake City winter games, which were on the verge of insolvency before he took over.

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has reserved $1.65 million in airtime against Rep. Brian Bilbray (R-Calif.). 

It's a sign the DCCC thinks Bilbray is vulnerable this fall. The Republican has been a top Democratic target this year. His San Diego district went from one that leaned Republican before redistricting to one that leans Democratic now, and he's facing a tough challenger in San Diego Ports Commissioner Scott Peters (D), a self-funding moderate.

The DCCC also released Web videos attacking 23 Republicans for a planned vote this week to extend all of the Bush-era tax rates. 

The ad argues for additional spending on infrastructure and education.

The Republican National Committee (RNC) is slamming President Obama on his handling of the economy in a new television ad released Friday, timed with the start of the Olympics and coinciding with the latest GDP report that showed sluggish economic growth.

President Obama's campaign released a television ad Friday touting "hard work" and the "middle class," a break from recent commercials and Web videos focused on Republican presidential challenger Mitt Romney.

Priorities USA, a super-PAC backing President Obama, is using Republican challenger Mitt Romney's role at the Salt Lake City Olympics to hit him over reports of foreign financial investments and outsourcing in a new television ad released Wednesday.