Presidential candidate to meet with Israeli PM and defence minister while GOP kicks off massive ad campaign at home
Mitt Romney will meet with Israeli leaders on the latest leg of his three-nation foreign tour in a move that comes as Republican party strategists are making an aggressive pitch for American Jewish voters.
As Romney seeks to woo top Israeli figures like prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, defence minister Ehud Barak, foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman and president Shimon Peres in a series of personal meetings on Sunday, his party back home is preparing a massive ad campaign targeted at Jewish Americans.
The effort is called "My Buyer's Remorse" and comes from the Republican Jewish Coalition. It will place adverts in key battleground states like Ohio, Florida and Pennsylvania and is backed by a war chest of around $6.5m.
One of the main funders of the group is casino mogul Sheldon Adelson, once a fervent backer of Romney's nomination rival Newt Gingrich but who has now swung behind the party's pick.
The campaign is aimed at persuading Jewish voters who backed President Barack Obama in 2008 that they made a mistake, especially when it comes to Obama's policies towards Israel.
Source: guardian
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