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The Republican super-PAC backing Mitt Romney's presidential campaign is planning a $4 million ad buy over nine battleground states in a likely rebuttal to the Obama campaign's "Swiss bank account" ad released Tuesday.

An organization that tracks political spending on television says the pro-Romney Restore Our Future super-PAC purchased television ad time in Florida, North Carolina, Ohio, Michigan, Iowa, Colorado, Nevada, Virginia and New Hampshire, reports The Associated Press.

An ad from President Obama's reelection team released Tuesday takes aim at Romney's history at private-equity firm Bain Capital, painting the Republican challenger as someone who regularly shipped jobs overseas and tried to conce! al his Swiss bank account.

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