Campaign ads

The ad shows an incident that took place while the two California Democrats were arguing during a debate.

Mitt Romney's campaign on Wednesday unveiled a new television ad highlighting the GOP nominee’s attacks on President Obama’s economic record during the second presidential debate.

The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee is set to release a new ad hitting former Wisconsin Gov. Tommy Thompson (R) as a Washington crony who cashed in on his Medicare connections.

Two environmental groups intensified their efforts in several House and Senate campaigns Monday , with one of them entering the Arizona Senate race for the first time in hopes of generating momentum for rising Democratic candidate Richard Carmona.

The League of Conservation Voters (LCV) is spending $470,000 on an ad in the Phoenix media market that ties Rep. Jeff Flake (R) to the uranium mining industry. Majority PAC also funded the spot.

Flake, who began the Senate campaign against Carmona as the front-runner, has seen his lead in polls shrink in recent weeks.

President Obama's campaign released a new television ad on Monday, touting the administration’s jobs record and the resurgence of the American auto industry.

A conservative energy group will keep the stream of pro-coal ads flowing in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Virginia in the coming weeks with a combined seven-figure ad buy.

The American Energy Alliance (AEA) spent $600,000 on a cable and network TV ad that criticizes President Obama’s coal record. AEA, which will run the ad Saturday through Oct. 26 in Ohio and Virginia, also plans to secure Internet space for the ad, spokesman Benjamin Cole told The Hill on Friday.

The coal ad is the latest in a barrage from outside groups and campaigns for both Obama and GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney that have saturated the airwaves in coal-heavy Ohio and Virginia.

An ad campaign launched Thursday by a conservative group aims to unseat Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) by linking him to Obama administration regulations opposed by the coal industry.

American Commitment is spending $400,000 on the Ohio TV and radio effort. The group is headed by Phil Kerpen, a former strategist for Americans for Prosperity and Club for Growth.

The GOP super-PAC American Crossroads is out with a new ad attacking President Obama's economic policies and arguing that another term would mean "another four years focused on everything but jobs."

The ad will be in heavy rotation, with $7.4 million behind it over the next week, running in four swing states: Colorado, Florida, Ohio and Virginia.

"More of the same," the ad's narrator beings. "He's demanding tax hikes. Over 2 million small businesses will get higher taxes, 700,000 workers a pink slip, and he wants more spending, just like his failed stimulus. After trillions in more debt with nothing to show for it, we can't repeat those mistakes. Another four years focused on everything but jobs? No thanks."

Former Sen. George Allen (R-Va.) is up with a new ad touting his bipartisan work as governor on welfare, economic and education reform, in an appeal to independent voters.

"I don't need to shoot the cap-and-trade bill. I already killed it," he says in the ad.