Obama ads target young voters

Submitted by ryanteaguebeckwith on September 25, 2008 - 1:36pm.
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Obama registration adBarack Obama is running ads encouraging young voters to register.

The Democratic presidential candidate has a full-page ad in Wednesday's edition of The Independent, an alternative weekly based in Durham. He's run similar ads in The Daily Tar Heel, the student paper at UNC-Chapel Hill.

The ad shows an oil drop with wind turbines and plant designs inside. "I registered because the future won't run on oil. — Josie K." reads the headline. "Don't get mad. Get registered."

The ads are running with two weeks remaining before the Oct. 10 deadline for new voters to register. They coincide with tours by Obama surrogates on college campuses.

They are a further sign that the Obama campaign hopes to boost the turnout among young voters in North Carolina by a substantial margin this year. 

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Obama ad CLT Creative Loafing

Submitted by gercohen on September 27, 2008 - 4:18pm.

I saw the same full page ad in Charlotte's Creative Loafing weekly alternative newspaper on a weekend visit there.

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