Obama to air first campaign ads in Iowa

[jefferson_dem]

Obama to air first campaign ads in Iowa
Staff and agencies
25 June, 2007

By MIKE GLOVER, Associated Press Writer

DES MOINES, Iowa - Democratic Sen. Barack Obama is launching two biographical television ads this week, focusing on early voting Iowa in the first commercials of his presidential campaign.

Candidates typically hold off on advertising during the slow summer months, but the warp-speed campaign has forced the 2008 contenders to rethink the traditional approach. Republican Mitt Romney and Democrat Bill Richardson have run ads in Iowa — and seen their poll numbers increase.

Obama aides planned a conference call Monday to discuss the new commercials, featuring a Republican lawmaker who worked with Obama in the Illinois State Legislature and Harvard Law professor Laurence Tribe.

A 60-second commercial, called "Choices," focuses on the decision Obama made after graduating from Harvard Law School, opting to turn down lucrative offers from law firms and instead move to Chicago as a community organizer.

"Senator Obama worked on some of the deepest issues we had and was successful in a bipartisan way," Dillard says in that ad.

"It was inspiring, absolutely inspiring to see someone as brilliant as Barack Obama, as successful, someone who could have written his ticket on Wall Street, take all of the talent and all of the learning and decide to devote it to the community and to make people‘s lives better," Tribe says in the commercial.

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The ads can be viewed on Obama's site -- http://iowa.barackobama.com/page/invite/juneiaads

[Grandrose]

1. Anxious to see the ads too.

Exciting times!!:) :kick:

[Ethelk2044]

2. I would love to be able to see them as well

[illinoisprogressive]

3. they are on his site. at the top under States click on Iowa