U.S. Senator Barack Obama is set to launch a minute-long TV ad that will begin airing tomorrow in 18 states. The ad clearly aims to reintroduce (or, for those who haven't been paying attention, introduce) the presumptive Democratic nominee to voters in an attempt to define himself before smears and pernicious rumors take hold. But what is most interesting here is not the content of the ad, but rather the states in which the Obama campaign has chosen to air it. Check out the maps below to get a sense of the significance.
First, here is a map showing what NDN believes to be the core Democratic and Republican states colored blue and red respectively, of course.
Now here is the same map with an added layer showing the states in which Obama will be airing the ad.
And of course you should take a look at the ad itself:
