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According to the Philadelphia Inquirer, "The Barack barrage has begun." The Obama camp began airing ads in Philadelphia on Friday, which will run through today, March 24th, the voter registration deadline. The Inquirer goes on to report that the Obama campaign spent around $330,000 on this latest slate of ads.

"Opportunity", a minute-long spot, is aptly titled and mostly autobiographical. Using the same words as appeared in his speech on race, Obama shines the spotlight on his grandparents, painting the picture of a working class couple; his grandfather served in the army, while his grandmother worked on bomber assembly line and neither had much money. The Obama campaign is no doubt attempting to appeal to the large number of working class voters in Pennsylvania, which have thus far been a key voting block for Hillary.

Obama is also running two 30-second ads, "Carry" and "Toughest." The former focuses primarily on Obama's ability to be bipartisian and features Illinois Republican Senator Kirk Dillard, while the latter promotes Obama's push for ethics reform.

As a little bonus, here are a couple of radio ads the Obama campaign has been running in Pennsylvania. Click here and here to listen.

I have yet to see reports that Hillary has started running ads in Pennsylvania, but as soon as she does I'll be sure to post them.

As we near the March 4th primaries, Senators Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are hoping to end their campaigns on a strong footing by hitting the airwaves. Aside from "Children", her now infamous ad that caused quite a stir, Senator Clinton is finishing strongly with "Partner" and "True", which is below:

Then there are Obama's ads. He responds to Senator Clinton's "Children" with "Ringing". Obama can afford deep saturation, airing "Safe", "Moving", and "Leader", which is below. Note: "Leader" is the first two-minute ad Obama has aired since Iowa. A lot of us wondered why he didn't air one in New Hampshire. Perhaps he learned his lesson, as some version of "Leader" will air in Texas and Ohio.

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I'll wait to post any post-debate commentary, but I did want to put up Barack Obama's ad that just ran on CNN. The campaign is running the ad, entitled "Inspiring", on CNN and MSNBC nationally. Check it out below:

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