Editors note: This is the Journals weekly roundup of campaign news.
Coloradans at least the ones who get Colorado television are the countrys leading targets for advertising by presidential campaigns, NBC reported this week.
Three of the top five advertising markets last week for President Barack Obama, Republican Mitt Romney and their allied Super PACs were in the Centennial State.
Colorado Springs ranked first, Grand Junction second and Denver fourth, according to NBC. Two Florida cities, Tampa and Orlando, ranked third and fifth, respectively.
I know you are but what am I: Romney and Obama traded accusations over who is outsourcer-in-chief last week.
Obama had tagged Romney with the label for his past leadership of Bain Capital, which took over companies and sought to make them more efficient.
In Grand Junction on Tuesday, Romney applied it to Obama for the presidents support of renewable energy companies that buy equipment overseas. Romney also released an ad that accuses Obama of lying in his ads about Bain Capitals record.
To your health: House Republicans voted again this week to repeal Obamas health insurance law, and representatives like Scott Tipton, R-Cortez, were eager to call attention to their votes against the law. But so were opponents. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee noted that, by voting to repeal the whole law, Republicans were also repealing a part of the act that says members of Congress have to give up their special health insurance and buy insurance through the exchanges set up by Obamas law. Repeal would mean members of Congress could keep their old health insurance and its lifetime coverage.
Tiptons campaign manager, Michael Fortney, said the DCCC was just trying to distract people from Republicans focus on Obamas unpopular health care law.
Third district fundraising: Tiptons main challenger, Democrat Sal Pace, raised $410,000 between April and June, his campaign said this week. Thats far beyond what Tipton and former Rep. John Salazar were raising at this time in 2010. Pace has $790,000 cash on hand.
Tipton has not yet released his numbers. Detailed reports are due to the Federal Election Commission on Sunday.
Countdown: 115 days until the November election.
