1. "Citizens United has struck a deal with a dozen television stations to run its hour-long film featuring voters disaffected with President Barack Obama, sending the Republican critique of the incumbent into tens of millions of homes in the lead-up to Election Day, the groups officials told POLITICO.
2. The Hope and the Change directed by Stephen Bannon, who made the Sarah Palin movie The Undefeated, was first unveiled last month and it aired during the Republican National Convention in Tampa.
3. The Citizens United case was about Bossies efforts to get similar movies into the bloodstream.
4. This movie set to start airing on Tuesday and run through Nov. 6 on six cable and six broadcast networks features forty Democratic and independent voters who backed Obama in 2008 and have since become disillusioned.
5. The voters talk about what they had expected Obama to accomplish once in office, and why they had supported him. Bossie says the voters, who come from swing states ...were picked from focus groups that were conducted by former Jimmy Carter adviser Pat Caddell.
6. ... its goal is tapping into a sentiment that exists among voters of disappointment that Obama didnt live up to their high expectations, and which Obamas campaign has tried to push back against.
7. Republicans have tried to tap into that sense of disillusionment, in particular with a Republican National Committee ad that tells voters its okay for them to make a change. Obama has sought to acknowledge disappointment, while saying he needs more time to fix a problem of large magnitude.
8. It will reach 130 million homes, according to Citizens United, coupled with advertising dollars about the movie on cable networks.
9. That will come on top of a flood of Mitt Romney campaign spending, and super PAC spending, in the final seven weeks of the race.
10. Its just about his competence, said Bannon. (They) believed [Obama] connected with them they thought it was a unique connection they like him personally, they think hes a great family man its all about competence.
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2. The Hope and the Change directed by Stephen Bannon, who made the Sarah Palin movie The Undefeated, was first unveiled last month and it aired during the Republican National Convention in Tampa.
3. The Citizens United case was about Bossies efforts to get similar movies into the bloodstream.
4. This movie set to start airing on Tuesday and run through Nov. 6 on six cable and six broadcast networks features forty Democratic and independent voters who backed Obama in 2008 and have since become disillusioned.
5. The voters talk about what they had expected Obama to accomplish once in office, and why they had supported him. Bossie says the voters, who come from swing states ...were picked from focus groups that were conducted by former Jimmy Carter adviser Pat Caddell.
6. ... its goal is tapping into a sentiment that exists among voters of disappointment that Obama didnt live up to their high expectations, and which Obamas campaign has tried to push back against.
7. Republicans have tried to tap into that sense of disillusionment, in particular with a Republican National Committee ad that tells voters its okay for them to make a change. Obama has sought to acknowledge disappointment, while saying he needs more time to fix a problem of large magnitude.
8. It will reach 130 million homes, according to Citizens United, coupled with advertising dollars about the movie on cable networks.
9. That will come on top of a flood of Mitt Romney campaign spending, and super PAC spending, in the final seven weeks of the race.
10. Its just about his competence, said Bannon. (They) believed [Obama] connected with them they thought it was a unique connection they like him personally, they think hes a great family man its all about competence.
Citizens United Obama film to air on TV - POLITICO.com Print View
