A trio of new ads in the contested U.S. Senate race feature a continued focus on jobs and federal spending and debt, though the tone and the target of each vary a great deal.

The first ad, from Sen. Michael Bennet’s campaign, decries a “broken” Washington filled with partisan bickering while touting the Senator’s private sector business experience, concluding that “the economy should be job one”:

A second ad, from Karl Rove’s American Crossroads group, has also hit the airwaves, returning to Sen. Bennet’s “nothing to show for it” comments they featured in their first ad, this time with audio voiceover:

The third ad, “Listening,” comes from the National Republican Senatorial Committee, via Politico:

FIRST IN SCORE – BENNET’S WORST ENEMY: The NRSC is turning its firepower on Colorado today, targeting Sen. Michael Bennet with its second independent expenditure ad of the cycle and the first aimed at an incumbent Democrat. The spot is a compact, forceful attack, hitting the senator’s economic record and repeatedly showing a clip of Bennet touting his unapologetic support for the Recovery Act. “He voted for the stimulus bill, promising us jobs,” the narrator says, teeing up the footage of Bennet saying: “I voted for it, and I’m glad I did.” The commercial continues: “But unemployment’s up. He even voted for job-killing taxes. … Michael Bennet. More spending. Higher taxes. Jobs lost.” Cue Michael Bennet: “I voted for it, and I’m glad I did.”