Romney super-PAC doubles Super Tuesday ad buys

Restore Our Future, a super-PAC backing Mitt Romney for president, has doubled its television ad buys in four big Super Tuesday states, Georgia, Ohio, Oklahoma and Tennessee, a group spokesman told The Hill.

The states are four of the largest to vote next Tuesday, and in all four states Romney is the underdog or in a tough race. He hopes to win Ohio, the key state on Super Tuesday, where he is in a tight race with Rick Santorum, and pick up some delegates in the other states.

The ads attack each state's current front-runner, slamming Santorum in Ohio, Tennessee and Oklahoma and hitting Newt Gingrich in Ohio, the only state where he is leading in the polls.

The additional buy is $1.3 million, making the total close to $2.5 million. The group is now spending approximately $600,000 in Ohio, $600,000 in Tennessee, $1 million in Georgia and $350,000 in Oklahoma — small buys in comparison to the multiple millions of dollars the group was able to spend in the early-voting states of Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina and Florida.

Because the states will award some of their delegates proportionally by district, Romney has made a push for more suburban and wealthier areas of those states. In Ohio he is focused on winning the statewide vote, which would cement him as the front-runner going forward and make him very hard to catch.

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