Romney buys big against Santorum

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Mitt RomneyRepublican presidential hopeful/former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, after failing to seize control of the Republican nomination race on Super Tuesday, is on the attack. The Super PAC outside spending group that supports Romney, the biggest fundraiser in the Republican field, has bought millions in anti-Santorum ads for now and upcoming weeks.


Conservative Kansas, where Santorum is the favorite, holds its caucuses on 3/10. Alabama and Mississippi, two Southern states where evangelical Christians are a big voting bloc, have primaries on 3/13.

Restore our Future, the Super PAC supporting Romney, has been on the air in Alabama and Mississippi with anti-Santorum ads for days, spending nearly $3 million.

The group is already buying $1.4 million in ads in two states that do not vote for weeks. Restore our Future spent more than $909,000 in Illinois, which holds its primary on 3/20, and more than $431,000 in Louisiana, where the primary is 3/24, reports Reuters.

Meanwhile, pro-Santorum Super PAC, the “Red, White and Blue Fund,” retaliated by spending $500,000 to air ads attacking Romney in Alabama and Mississippi.

Opening up a new front against Santorum, the Romney campaign accused him of being a lobbyist in his home state of Pennsylvania even before he went to Washington in 1991. Romney’s campaign is also attacking Santorum for holding regular meetings with lobbyists as a Senate leader, part of the Republican “K Street Project” seeking to increase the party’s influence in the capital.