Campaign ads

A new ad takes aim at Republicans for not including women witnesses at a hearing about religious freedom and contraception.

Mitt Romney launched his first attack ad against Rick Santorum in Michigan, blasting his closest rival for supporting earmarks.

Republicans are hammering President Obama for his reelection campaign's New York City fashion-show fundraiser in a new Web ad debuting Tuesday, arguing the optics of the event are inappropriate while the economy continues to struggle.

A super-PAC supporting Rick Santorum's presidential campaign went up with the first ad in what the group describes as a series of ad buys Wednesday in Missouri, airing a commercial arguing that the former senator is the best "proven conservative" to take on President Obama in the general election.

It's the latest attempt from conservative groups to hit Obama politically on the issue.

Fresh on the heels of announcing January fundraising numbers in excess of $4 million, Rick Santorum's presidential campaign announced a new television ad that will begin airing Tuesday in Colorado and Nevada.

The ad attacks Newt Gingrich as being too liberal for the GOP nomination by arguing that he shares many policy positions with President Obama and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.).

"All three supported radical cap and trade legislation that would destroy American jobs and drive up energy costs. All three supported giving illegal aliens some form of amnesty. All three sported the government health mandates which take away our freedom and is the core of ObamaCare. And all three of these politician's supported the Wall Street bailouts that was a slap in the face to the Tea Party," the narrator says.

It goes on to refer to the trio as "cap and trade loving, bailout supporting, soft on immigration, big-government mandating politicians."

The commercial is a sharp indictment of Gingrich, with whom Santorum has split more conservative voters in early primary contests. But the ad does little to attack Mitt Romney, the presumptive Republican front-runner who is expected to lead in Nevada polling.

"Rick Santorum for President: he doesn't just talk a good conservative game, he lives it," the narrator says.

Nevada will caucus Feb. 4, with Colorado voters gathering 3 days later at caucus sites across that state. Ron Paul, who also has essentially conceded the Florida primary, is also campaigning early in those two states.

The Republican National Committee debuted a new Web ad Tuesday mocking President Obama's response to a woman whose husband was looking for work.

Mitt Romney's latest Florida ad consists entirely of a single clip of former NBC Nightly News anchor Tom Brokaw.

Romney's campaign defended the candidate's record while blasting Gingrich and his allies.

President Obama is captain of a slave ship headed over a waterfall, according to Republican congressional candidate Mark Oxner’s new campaign ad.

Featuring the "USS Obamaboat," the animated ad urges voters to “turn this ship around” and criticizes Obama's levels of government spending, including bank bailouts, healthcare and a loan to the failed solar company Solyndra.