American Crossroads comes to Romney's rescue with new Obama attack After getting pounded by President Obama's campaign with slashing ads about his business record and finances, Mitt Romney is getting some back-up support on the airwaves. The conservative super PAC American Crossroads is weighing in with a new $9.3 million television buy in nine states accusing Obama of lobbing unfair attacks to distract from his economic record. "What happened to Barack Obama?" asks a female narrator, as ominous music plays over still frames of Obama's anti-Romney ads. The press and even Democrats say his attacks on Mitt Romney's business record are misleading, unfair and untrue...So why is Obama attacking? He's added $4 billion in new debt every single day. Unemployment's stuck above 8%. Family incomes - falling. Barack Obama can't run on that record. The ad is schedule to air for 11 days on broadcast television in Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Michigan, North Carolina, New Hampshire, Nevada, Ohio and Virginia. For Romney, the outside help is particularly welcome, since much of the money he has raised cannot be used until the general election campaign technically kicks off and he is nominated at the Republican convention at the end of August. It's the first significant ad campaign this year by American Crossroads, which until now been largely quiet while its tax-exempt sister organization, Crossroads GPS, has launching a massive fusillade of TV ads assailing Obama's policies. So far, Crossroads GPS has spent at least $83 million on ads against the president and congressional Democrats, according to a calculation by the Sunlight Foundation based on news releases and media reports. As a 501 (c) 4 "social welfare" organization, Crossroads GPS does not have to report its spending to the Federal Election Commission, as the super PACs do, unless the ads are directly political. And the TV spots the group have been running are technically "issue ads," because they do not explicitly call for Obama's defeat.