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American Future Fund is hoping it can manage to survive the 2008 election by emulating the political fundraising campaign of President-elect Barack Obama to mobilize conservatives.

With control of the Iowa House hanging in the balance, candidates and interest groups from both sides of the aisle are waging a campaign that has turned decidedly negative.

A conservative group that has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars advocating nationally for Republican candidates for Congress has begun a new focus on Iowa legislative races.
American Future Fund, an Iowa-based nonprofit advocating “conservative and free market ideals” has opened an Iowa chapter, and with it launched a series of ads attacking Democratic candidates for [...]

The Des Moines-based conservative non-profit American Future Fund is once again being called to task for an ad that seems to be playing fast and loose with the truth.
The new ad, the latest in a series of attack ads against Mark Udall, a Democrat running for U.S. Senate in Colorado, says Udall has been bad [...]

Campaign watchdog group Colorado Ethics Watch has filed a complaint with the Internal Revenue Service requesting an investigation of four non-profit organizations, including Iowa-based American Future Fund (AFF).
The complaint says AFF and three other groups — Coloradans for Economic Growth, Freedom’s Watch, and Western Skies Coalition — have each spent more of their total resources [...]

The American Future Fund, an Iowa-based conservative group that has run advocacy ads for Republicans in competitive congressional races around the country, has produced its first national television advertisement, focusing on energy policy and advocating for more domestic oil exploration.

But the ad, which aired for the first time Wednesday night during Fox News Channel’s “The O’Reilly Factor,” relies on outdated, untrue claims.

A non-profit conservative group has attacked Gov. Chet Culver’s handling of the flood recovery effort in a new statewide radio advertisement launched this week.

As a companion to Jason Hancock’s detailed story about the efforts of the conservative American Future Fund, here are a few selected ads they have produced this year.

A network of Iowa Republicans is playing a leading role in a secretive group advocating nationally on behalf of “conservative and free market ideals” in congressional races around the country. Among the group’s leaders are two media consultants who played key roles in the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth ads in 2004 and the Willie Horton ad in 1988, both of which helped defeat Democratic presidential candidates.