Saw my first post-Primary Barack Obama campaign ad tonight.

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That's one of the advantages of being in a "battleground state." I bet those f'listers of mine who live in New York, Massachusetts and California won't see many ads -- if any. It was interesting to watch and check off the list of how he's trying to appeal to all the groups who didn't vote for him very often, in the primaries:

• Oh, yes, there he is as a little boy in the lap of his very white grandparents...


• Oh, good -- he's mentioning that he worked in college, to pay his tuition (rather than getting in with family money)


• There he is, hugging a little old (white) lady in the crowd at a campaign rally


• And his mention that he chose to work in Chicago, after college, instead of for big business...

And so on...

FactCheck.Org does a pretty good analysis of it (there's also a link on that page where you can see the ad for yourself), though I disagree with them a little bit when they say that he's being disengenuous about his legislative credentials -- it was clear to me from the visuals that he was talking about his time in Illinois, rather than D.C. ... But then again, I'm one of them "college-educated elites" that have always supported him, and I might have a clearer understanding of how laws are made than most. ...Or, it could be that FactCheck reviewers underestimate the savviness of the general viewer.