It looks like Obama is going to be buying his first TV ads of the season in Iowa.  There's an article out from the AP:
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Ob ama-Ads.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

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's two biographical spots are just the start of what could be an unprecedented campaign on television...

Update [2007-6-25 16:45:32 by psericks]: State Senator Kirk Dillard --- not to be confused with state rep. Jim Durkin, McCain's legislative co-chair --- has endorsed the McCain campaign and has been confirmed today as still endorsing, as confirmed by Ben Smith of Politico. A poster on that site Rashomon makes the great point that this seems like a trend of McCain supporters having "a soft spot for Obama." Like McCain adviser and former Bushie Mark McKinnon, who said that if McCain was in the general election against Obama he would resign his position...
Dillard has been a consistent source for glowing quotes for news articles about Obama's time in the state legislature, in the Chicago Tribune, etc. (Quotes posted in the discussion thread). Another poster says that Dillard has been quoted by abcnews as saying he is still endorsing McCain but wouldn't lose any sleep at night over his children's future if Obama were to be elected.
Update [2007-6-25 17:20:52 by psericks]: (1) Dillard was one of many considered by the state GOP as a replacement for the drop-out Jack Ryan to run against Obama in 2004 for the US Senate. He was quoted by the Chicago Sun-Times as saying he thought he could beat Obama but ultimately declined to run. Links and blockquotes in the discussion threads.
(2) Jay R notes Dillard's State GOP page has a nice photo of him and Fred Thompson. Interesting... http://www.dillard.senategop.org/
(3)Lest Dillard steal the spotlight, it turns out Obama helped Laurence Tribe write an article called "The Curvature of Constitutional Space." =)

"I can't pretend that I had any idea then that he would be a serious presidential candidate -- that would have been a crazy thing for anyone to project at that stage of a career -- but he was certainly the most all-around impressive student I had seen in decades," said Laurence Tribe, a constitutional scholar at Harvard for whom Obama served as a research assistant. Obama analyzed and integrated Einstein's theory of relativity, the Heisenberg uncertainty principle, as well as the concept of curved space as an alternative to gravity, for a Law Review article that Tribe wrote titled, "The Curvature of Constitutional Space."

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Cross post from The Word Smiths

For those of you who don't know, the Edwards campaign has produced a :30 ad asking Congress to send the same bill back to President Bush, the same thing I called on Congress to do last week.

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Cross-posted at Daily Kos

Hi, folks.  As many of you know, my Dad is Jack Carter, who's running for US Senate in Nevada.  We're back on the air.  I'll have the TV ads below (YouTube links and transcripts),  a little bit of the coverage that my Dad got on his recent campaign swing through rural Nevada with Brian Schweitzer, and tell you about a new feature on the Carter Blog: "Outrageous Ensign Vote of the Day."

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Hi, everyone.  As you know, my Dad is Jack Carter, who's running for US Senate in Nevada.  This week is a big week for us.  Two TV ads just went up in both the Las Vegas and Reno markets.  Those two markets combine to cover 97% of the state's voters, and we're expecting a big boost in name recognition for my Dad.  See the ads (or read the transcripts) after the jump.

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