Obama's ad hit state's TV stations friday

[Indiana_Dem]

http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080327/NEWS05/80327076

While Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and her family have been in Indiana so often they practically qualify as residents, Hoosiers’ best chance so far to see her opponent, Sen. Barack Obama, is to turn on their TVs.

Obama, who was the first of the two Democratic presidential contenders to campaign in Indiana, will become the first of the candidates to begin airing TV ads.
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His first ad, a 30-second spot focusing on jobs, begins running on TV stations statewide Friday morning.

The ad comes on the first of a two-day campaign swing by Clinton that will take her to Mishawaka, Hammond, Fort Wayne and Muncie on Friday, and Indianapolis and New Albany on Saturday.

By the end of the day Saturday, she, her husband, former President Bill Clinton, and their daughter, Chelsea, will have made a total of 22 campaign stops in 17 Indiana cities. In all, one or more members of the Clinton family will have been in Indiana on seven of 12 days.

Obama? He’s been here once, for a town hall meeting in Plainfield on March 15.
His campaign, though, says he’ll be back often.

“What we’re doing here is the same thing we’ve done everywhere,” said Kevin Griffis, communications director for Obama’s Indiana campaign. “We’re building from the grass roots up. We’re putting an infrastructure in place to be able to get out our vote and communicate with our voters. Without that, no number of candidate visits will be enough.” <snip>

[PVnRT]

1. Yeah, I saw it this morning

Kind of weird, a presidential ad of any kind in Indiana.

[Voltaire]

2. Wasn't it though?

I am going to have to get used to the idea of voting in a primary that actually matters. Kind of like Halley's Comet ain't it?