A George Soros-funded super PAC is vowing to send operatives to stake out Republican campaigns to hunt for and to record any gaffes or controversial statements the candidates may make.

On Tuesday, American Bridge sent a fundraising plea to supporters asking for money to pay for “trackers,” a term for political operatives who sometimes tail opponents.

The organization, which includes both a super PAC that discloses its donors and a nonprofit group that does not, bragged in its fundraising letter about its flagging the clip of Rep. W. Todd Akin, Missouri Republican, making comments about “legitimate rape” that led top Republicans to call for his exit from that state’s U.S. Senate race...

The strategy highlighted an emerging difference between Republican and Democratic outside groups: While Republicans have had a much easier time raising money and have outspent Democrats many times over on advertising, several major Democratic groups have fashioned themselves into largely opposition-research organizations, records suggest.

The tactic, they hope, will allow them to overcome a fundraising disparity by coming up with particularly compelling nuggets of information that go viral, rather than saturating the airwaves with traditional talking points, as their Republican counterparts, including Crossroads GPS, have done.

American Bridge’s website contains long, meticulously cited opposition-research pieces drawing from old news clips, public records and other sources to paint Republicans as hypocrites and, lately, to tie them to Mr. Akin and his staunch pro-life views.

Priorities USA, the super PAC led by former advisers to President Obama, has had an excruciatingly tough time raising funds. But it, too, has invested unusually large amounts on research. It has spent more than $1 million on research, half of which went to Global Strategy, an opposition-research firm. Majority PAC, a Democratic super PAC active in Senate races, has spent half a million on research...

American Bridge’s top contributor is Mr. Soros, a liberal hedge fund manager who donated $1 million last quarter. Priorities USA has been funded by unions, lawyers and Hollywood celebrities, including $1 million from actor Morgan Freeman.

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Editor's Note: Taking into consideration all of his political actions, by word, deed and in financial action, George Soros is an enemy of the United States who is actively trying to over-throw the American system of government using the tools of propaganda and destructive finance...Last we understood, attempting to overthrow the US government was actionable.


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