WASHINGTON — Democrat Barack Obama is seeking to reintroduce himself to votersand address some of his political vulnerabilities — in his first television ad of the general-election campaign.
The 60-second commercial is set to air today in Colorado and 17 other states. The ad, called “Country I Love,” is a biographical portrait that stresses the roots of his mother’s family.
“I was raised by a single mom and my grandparents,” Obama says in the spot. “We didn’t have much money, but they taught me values straight from the Kansas heartland where they grew up.”
It’s both an effort to counter the notion that the Harvard-educated Chicago resident is an elitist and an attempt to connect with working-class voters who largely preferred Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton during the primaries.
The campaign chose to run the ad in traditional battleground states as well as some that have reliably voted for Republican presidential candidates in the past several elections, including Alaska, Colorado, Georgia, North Carolina, Virginia, Indiana, Montana and North Dakota.
