KING: Midterms are historically about who's sitting in the Oval Office, but some Republicans are trying to flip the script and make Nancy Pelosi the issue.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Dishonest Danny would vote with Pelosi to raise taxes and give amnesty to millions of illegals. Dishonest Danny O'Connor, he'd make Washington worse.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Before you vote, do your research. Nancy Pelosi has. That's why Pelosi's financing Lisa Brown's campaign. Same values. Same liberal records.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Under Nancy Pelosi and Anthony Brindisi's liberal agenda is too extreme for upstate New York. Under Nancy Pelosi and Anthony Brindisi, our economy crashed. Reckless spending. Devastating unemployment.</s>KING: According to Kantar Media CMAG, a group that tracks campaign ads, 37 percent of Republican TV ads that aired in Ohio's 12th district mentioned or featured Pelosi. Nationally, 11 percent of all GOP House and Senate ads at least mention Pelosi. Republicans say using Pelosi as a midterm motivator works. And while Democrats call that wishful thinking or at least exaggerated spin, it's no secret these GOP attacks come as more and more Democrats say they won't support the California Democrat for speaker if their party retakes the House this November. That tells me that it may not be working as well as Republicans say, but it has to be working if more and more Democrats are saying, nope, won't do it, right?</s>LERER: So, I think there's two interesting parts of this argument.
GOP uses Pelosi in Ads.